Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The parent company of retail giant Ikea put nearly $16.5 million into location technology from What3words to improve urban deliveries in cities. The What3words solution is also expected to provide accuracy for new delivery by drones and autonomous vehicles.
By Inside GNSS
Honeywell and InfiniDome are collaborating on a GPS signal-protection systems and showcasing a preliminary version of their joint solution at the AUVSI Xponential Show in Atlanta, Aug. 16-19.
By Inside GNSS
Chisha, that’s who. China’s first robot for assembling building components rolled off the production line in Nantong City in east China’s Jiangsu Province, according to the Science and Technology Daily.
By Inside GNSS
Situational awareness and risk assessment are key to UAV mission planning in both dense urban areas and, surprisingly, in open-sky areas such as over ocean coastlines. Successful results depend closely upon scheduling for the most advantageous hours, or even minutes, to overfly particular areas.
By Inside GNSS
Swift Navigation of San Francisco and Tokyo-based KDDI Corporation, a telecommunications company have partnered to bring precise positioning to the Japanese market.
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Maxtena, Inc. introduced a small, patented GNSS antenna for high precision and autonomous multi-frequency applications. The M9HCT-A-SMA antenna is a high accuracy, multi-frequency active helix GNSS antenna + L-band corrections services.
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New frontiers have opened up for line-of-sight communication, targeting, autonomous navigation, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and more, with the astonishing advances in inertial technology.
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The French company Geoflex demonstrated GNSS corrections-driven centimetric positioning in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo on July 8, at the national Stadium Alphonse Massamba-Debat. The demo employed a dual-frequency GNSS chipset receiving GPS and Galileo signals and the Geoflex corrections service via the Nigerian NIGCOMSAT-1R satellite on L Band
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u-blox released a firmware update for its ZED-F9R positioning module, bringing robust centimeter-level positioning to slow-moving use cases such as robotic lawnmowers, e-scooters, and shared bicycles.
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Increasingly, professional and industrial users struggle to work around unexplained GNSS outages. Often, they don’t realize an interferer has popped up in their midst. Situational awareness is now a key component whenever GNSS is employed.
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In a demonstration of new services that NextGen TV can offer, BitPath, CAST.ERA and ONE Media publicly trialed “Enhanced GPS” broadcasts that could provide a tool for autonomous vehicle navigation and other applications.
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For autonomous transport to become a reality, its operations must be at least as safe as existing ones. The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG-DEFIS) has awarded mission evolution studies to assess how the future evolution of European GNSS (EGNSS) could be beneficial for innovative and demanding autonomous applications.
By Inside GNSS
On Memorial Day, just prior to the running of the legendary Indy 500 race, a new speedway star came out to shine. A driverless racecar, no less, aiming for track speeds above 120 mph with no human hands on the wheel.
By Inside GNSS
