Rolls-Royce and Finnish state-owned ferry operator Finferries have successfully demonstrated a fully autonomous ferry in the archipelago south of the city of Turku, Finland. The car ferry Falco used a combination of Rolls-Royce Ship Intelligence technologies to successfully navigate autonomously during its voyage between Parainen and Nauvo. The return journey was conducted under remote control. During the demonstration, the Falco,... read more
Jackson Labs Technologies Inc. (JLT) released its tiny, new Micro-Transcoder, a full-constellation, stand-alone, real-time 10-channel GPS simulator. The unit can act as a GPS firewall to identify and block jamming and spoofing attempts, and to provide an alternate PNT source during fully GPS-denied operation. JLT is a designer and manufacturer of GNSS, timing and frequency equipment. The one-inch-square Micro-Transcoder module allows glueless retrofitting... read more
On Aug. 10, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) released its latest experimental geoid model, xGeoid18. In early 2019, NGS is scheduled to release its next hybrid geoid model, Geoid18. NGS’ 2018 experimental geoid model, xGeoid18, and the next hybrid geoid model, Geoid18, are not the same. This column will address the latest experimental geoid model, xGeoid18, and the future hybrid... read more
By Col. Steven Whitney Director, Global Positioning Systems Directorate Navigating across the world’s roads with GPS is easy. Navigating through the shifting construction zones, detours, and forks of the GPS Enterprise is not always so straightforward. For that reason, the GPS Directorate has placed more emphasis on illustrating, both figuratively and literally, the roadmaps leading to the integration of the... read more
Treyki Mini relies on u-blox positioning and wireless communication technologies. U-blox, a global provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies, is partnering with Arvento Mobile Systems, a Turkey-based fleet telematics company, to develop a compact people and asset tracking device with a long battery life. The Arvento Treyki Mini has eight operating modes, including special settings for tracking children (with... read more
The Septentrio team — including Andrew Simsky, navigation algorithms software engineer; Wim De Wilde, system designer; Jean-Marie Sleewaegen, system architect; and Tom Willems, senior researcher — received the 2018 GPS World Products Leadership Award for developing the versatile PolaRx5 receivers, enabling many Earth-observing applications including worldwide ionosphere monitoring. Sleewaegen offers the team’s acceptance speech below. It is a great honor... read more
John Raquet’s team has developed PNT sensors and systems utilizing GPS, GNSS, inertial, vision, lidar, magnetic field, pseudolites, radar, terrain mapping, signals of opportunity, star trackers, radio ranging, 3D audio, X-ray pulsars, clocks, and more. Raquet, director of the Autonomy and Navigation Technology (ANT) Center at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, received the 2018 GPS World Services Leadership... read more
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