Q: How can positioning technology ensure safety for passengers of autonomous cars and for others on or near the roadway? Paul Perrone, Founder/CEO, Perrone Robotics A: Satellite-based and local beacon-based positioning technologies offer the best opportunity for reliable and precise location…
A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the April 2018 issue of GPS World magazine. OEM GNSS RTK Board For OEMs, system integrators The BX306Z GNSS real-time kinematic (RTK) board has powerful flexibility and…
Assisting safer autonomous driving, STMicroelectronics has introduced a multi-frequency GNSS receiver chipset suitable for safety-critical automotive applications and high-accuracy positioning at the decimeter and centimeter-level for precise point positioning (PPP) and real-time kinematic (RTK) applications. Traditional in-car navigation systems help…
The winner’s of ION’s 8th annual Autonomous Snowplow Competition was team “Snow Squirrel” from the University of Minnesota. Photo courtesy of ION. The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division held its 8th annual Autonomous Snowplow Competition Jan. 25-28 at Rice…
TomTom has launched TomTom AutoStream, an innovative map delivery service for autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. The first partners to use the technology — Baidu and Zenuity — were unveiled at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show. TomTom AutoStream…
Q: How will safety issues raised by increasing autonomous traffic — in the air and on roads — affect the GNSS industry? Sanchit Agarwal, VP, Field Operations, Nearmap A: Due to increasing autonomous traffic, the GNSS industry will have…
A free Cognizant Autonomous Systems for Safety Critical Applications (CASSCA) Workshop will be held on Monday, January 29, 2018, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, Virginia. This is conveniently scheduled on the day before, and…
