Advanced Navigation

“While we strive for full automation and allow the vehicles to drive as autonomously as possible, regulations require onboard operators ready to address unforeseen challenges.”

“The ongoing success of these pilots will be instrumental in obtaining regulatory approval and building public confidence.”

“Our product team conducted trials with several units and found that Certus Evo consistently lived up to its specs while demonstrating a lower error rate compared to other models.”

“The system also features dynamic object recognition and collision avoidance, crucial for the safe interaction with its environment.” “An INS is essential for maintaining safety and meeting regulatory compliance.”

“These concerns stem from the city’s aging population in need of greater mobility and a dwindling interest among people wanting to be bus drivers due to changing expectations of the labour market.”

““These days, for any offshore operations, being small, being easy to deploy and easy to manage are what clients are looking for. Subsonus helps us a lot in achieving this. We will definitely be looking more into this technology for other applications.””

““Subsonus achieved the required positioning remarkably well and provided us much greater USBL positioning stability. Both myself and our client were highly impressed with the INS positioning over previous campaigns.””

““Subsonus was not only a new technology that we wanted to try, but it is the only USBL that we could find to fit onto an ROV of this size. In this case, smaller is definitely better for the outcomes we wanted to achieve.””

“Our previous equipment was in multiple modules that not only required individual transport, but also several power and data ports on the ROV. There are limitations to how much equipment can be carried and attached to an ROV, which is an important consideration for us. With Subsonus, the USBL and INS are integrated and require just one power and data connection. It also transports in a single case.”

“At the shallowest section of our survey, the surface vessel had to remain on station at 5 m water depth while the ROV moved off, following the pipeline further towards the shore. Positioning remained accurate right up to the point we ran out of ROV tether.”

“These days, what clients are looking for is not only reduced costs, but reducing crew numbers, vessel and fuel time, and carbon footprint. This is how DOF Subsea is going – smaller, even with the vessel. Clients want to do as much as possible remotely.”

“We expect USBL positioning tolerances at this depth to be around 0.4 m. One of the main problems we have encountered previously on this project was noise associated with working in such shallow water. This threw conventional USBL systems positions out by up to 15 m.”

“First of all, its gyros and accelerometers have very low noise, which allowed us to have an accurate motion model for our Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) module. In addition, thanks to its two antennas, the heading accuracy is extremely high even at standstill. This accuracy combined with the velocity measurements from the GPS, and its IMU, allowed us to get robust velocity estimates even when the car is drifting or performing non-standard maneuvers”

“The Advanced Navigation Spatial Dual we used in our driverless racing car this season was a great choice.”

“We created an environment that addresses the key reasons women cite for leaving STEM. Comfort, achievement, status, altruism, autonomy, in this order, so they can continue to develop as engineers with less societal interference.”

“If this task could be accomplished, higher-level tasks involving more complicated maneuvering and navigating would become significantly more conquerable.”

“Our business model is built on scalability, accuracy and efficiency in mind. That’s what we target. And that is also the reason for choosing the grade of INS that we have.”

“The challenges are when clients are recording data in busy environments, such as cities with big buildings and obstructions. That is a challenge for any INS. Not only the raw performance, but the post-processing afterwards as well – how well can it handle these difficult environments. This has made Advanced Navigation one of our key hardware choices right now.”

“Integration to camera, LiDAR and our proprietary data capture software has been easy. Based on the tens of thousands of kilometers we have surveyed in recent years and considering the sensitivity of the INS, the reliability and results have been fantastic.”

“With the experience of several successful integrations, we have the trust and familiarity to know that you can’t have a better INS from somewhere else for the same money. Not only that, having a solid and well documented protocol and not having to re-engineer as we upgraded our hardware has made using Advanced Navigation very convenient for us.”

“We were initially looking for a solution for our large and long [Ted] robot, suffering from sliding when passing over different soil textures, and for cold start navigation. The solution is very well adapted to both our large and small robots.”

“The GNSS Compass helped us achieve heading accuracy to ~1°. Turning of the robot also became smoother and a lot more stable, and our ability to calculate the centre of the robot relative to the ground gained a lot of accuracy.”

“Real autonomy, as requested by our clients, means being able to leave the robot to work alone in a field in order to get on with tasks with a higher added value. The challenge lies in delegating a simple, repetitive task to your robot, just in the same way you would leave a robot vacuum cleaner or a robot lawnmower to do its work.”

“Labour issues and the need to reduce the use of pesticides are global challenges. Naïo Technologies addresses these issues to ensure a sustainable agricultural production that is in phase with people and the environment.”

““There has been much communication between our teams, both during the initial development period and afterwards.””