Company: Monumo
Founder: Dominic Vergine
Website: https://monumo.com/
About Monumo
Monumo is a Cambridge-based deeptech company coupling AI and machine learning (ML) to revolutionise how complex engineering challenges can be dramatically improved.
Humans struggle to design complex systems which requires an understanding of every interaction across multiple diverse elements of a system; humans generally only master one area of expertise and find it difficult to compute the precise interplay between multiple variables all at once. The result is that few complex engineering systems are fully optimised. Deeptech has no such limitations.
Monumo has developed “Anser”, a scalable, ML-friendly engine, offering a breakthrough in design capability for the £1.7 trillion engineering industry. The Anser engine removes human bias, and design preconceptions by using AI & ML to create the best engineering designs at a system level. Monumo’s technology runs up to 10 million simulations a day, to identify the optimal parameters for specific use cases, whether that is reducing cost, creating efficiencies, or improving sustainability.
During optimisation, Anser can utilise a range of different ML techniques to speed up the optimisation process. Since these ML techniques make the simulation and optimisation faster, the teams can explore more diverse designs, which unlocks more data to improve the ML models, and creates a positive feedback cycle. With time, the teams will have accumulated enough diverse design data to train foundation models – or Targeted Engineering Models (TEM) as Monumo calls them – that will be able to replace costly computations and automatically generate designs to fulfil specific engineering requirements.
With its unique combination of computer scientists and industry design expertise, the team can optimise motor system designs faster and in ways that have never been possible before, creating apex motor designs that are simply beyond human capabilities.
Monumo’s initial focus is on the electric motor, a complex system that currently uses half of the world’s electricity. Optimising the electric motor is central to decarbonisation and unlocking clean transport. Just a 5% improvement in motors would equate to removing the emissions of France and Germany combined.
The adoption of electric transportation and the move away from internal combustion engines is central to the global move to decarbonisation. Monumo’s initial current focus is on Electric Vehicles (EVs) and the powertrains within each vehicle. With both cost and range barriers for consumer adoption, Monumo’s focus is to make them cheaper, lighter and more efficient.
Monumo’s patented technology has already produced a deeptech-generated design for a switched reluctance motor (SRM) which reduced torque ripple by 50% across the drive cycle, making it significantly smoother and quieter. Similarly impressive results were delivered for an electric powertrain found in a typical passenger vehicle. The technology has already found commercial traction with one of the world’s largest producers of electric motors as well as a range of companies involved in the automotive sector.
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