Intel shared a number of updates at a presentation during AUVSI’s Xponential 2018, which took place April 30-May 3 in Denver. Among the company’s latest developments are its Insight Platform, Mission Control and Falcon 8+. Intel Insight Platform Intel’s Insight Platform is a digital asset management system that enables aerial data management and analysis. It allows customers to store, share... read more
Intelligent vehicles and smart devices could gain more accurate location awareness by fusing GNSS and Wi-Fi signals. A test for this is the focus of an Innovate UK project led by Spirent Communications and involving the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick. The £694k Enhanced Assured Location Simulator Leveraging Wi-Fi and GNSS Sensor Fusion (ELWAG) project will... read more
The Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance selected Raytheon as a key partner in the development of America’s first and most advanced unmanned aircraft system-testing airspace corridor in New York state. Raytheon’s Intelligence, Information and Services business will help plan, design, build and support the state’s next-generation air traffic management system to safely test and manage drones. “UASs are playing an... read more
LORD Sensing MicroStrain has launched a new line of rugged inertial sensors, which the company said will fill a void in the marketplace. “The sensors respond to a market need for a sensing solution that offers better attitude and positioning accuracy and dynamic response in locations such as on the boom of an excavator or frame of a wheel loader,”... read more
NovAtel has demonstrated high-accuracy positioning performance using automotive-grade GNSS chipsets Teseo APP and Teseo V from STMicroelectronics. Combining automotive-grade multi-frequency GNSS chipsets with positioning algorithms and correction services from NovAtel improves the achievable positioning accuracy available to automotive users and provides a solution suitable for autonomous operation. According to the company, these chipsets provide multi-frequency GNSS data for precise point positioning... read more
The technological underpinning for stock markets’ techno-darlings doesn’t always work perfectly. That problem produces lost revenue and lost value. So Uber, for one, has done something about it, partly based on research developed by Paul Groves at University College London and featured in the February 2012 cover story of GPS World. Smartphones finding each other in the urban landscape constitute... read more
Harxon showcased high-precision positioning GNSS antennas and its latest wireless data-transmission technologies for UAV applications at AUVSI Xponential, which was held April 30-May 4 in Denver. Harxon’s D-Helix is a patented D-QHA (dual-quadrifilar helix antenna) multi-constellation antenna supports excellent reception of GPS, Galileo, BeiDou and GLONASS, as well as L-band signals. Harxon D-QHA technology ensures the ability of low elevation satellites... read more
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