A systems engineering firm specializing in making things move — with electric motors and software. We close the loop from sensor to actuator, and take the hard problems no one else will.
Our specialty is making things move — with electric motors and software. At the core it's cybernetics: sense, compute, actuate — and close the loop. Systems engineering is the practice that holds it together — requirements, architecture, integration and V&V — so a platform behaves like one machine, not four subsystems that don't talk.
Four domains we go deep in. Each is, underneath, a systems-integration project — the same practice applied to a specific kind of machine.
A disciplined model-based pipeline. Every stage produces something you can measure — not a slide deck. Each phase is keyed to the discipline that leads it.
The same practice — tuned to the duty cycles, standards and environment of each sector.
Cybernetics: the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine.
— NORBERT WIENER · 1948
Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system.
— Conant & Ashby · 1970
We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.
— Norbert Wiener · 1950
Information is a difference that makes a difference.
— Gregory Bateson
The purpose of a system is what it does.
— Stafford Beer
Act always so as to increase the number of choices.
— Heinz von Foerster
Cybernetics treats not things but ways of behaving.
— W. Ross Ashby · 1956
Only variety can absorb variety.
— W. Ross Ashby
The best material model of a cat is another, or the same, cat.
— Rosenblueth & Wiener · 1945
The map is not the territory.
— Alfred Korzybski
Astrapē is senior systems engineering, direct — no account manager, no junior bench. You work with the engineer doing the work, not a layer in front of it.
When a project needs stamped, discipline-specific depth, we bring the right licensed PE onto the bench. Senior reach, a few projects at a time — that's how the hard ones get finished.