GPS World, April 2016
APRIL 2016 COVER STORY 42 INNOVATION FLYING SAFE GNSS Robustness for Unmanned Aircraft Systems BY Joshua Stubbs and Dennis M Akos When siting the antenna of a GNSS receiver or designing a GNSS based navigation system electromagnetic compatibility is an important concern This is particularly true for airborne platforms In this months cover story we take a look at how radio frequency interference can impact GNSS equipment on unmanned aircraft systems and how robustly the equipment can navigate those systems APRIL 2016 WWW GPSWORLD COM GPS WORLD 3 VOL 27 NO 4 GPSWORLD COM FEATURE 18 AUTONOMOUS RELATIVE NAVIGATION BY Shahram Moafipoor Jeffrey A Fayman Lydia Bock and David Honcik Future UAVs will require relative navigation capability to fulfill a broad range of assisted manned and unmanned missions A new approach demonstrated in application to aerial refueling provides access to accurate relative time space positioning information between platforms MARKET WATCH APPLICATIONS TRENDS AND NEWS 26 OEM 28 SURVEY 30 MAPPING 32 TRANSPORTATION 34 UAV SECTOR UPDATES 37 MACHINE CONTROL 38 DEFENSE 39 MOBILE 4 ONLINE NOW 6 OUT IN FRONT Buckle Your Seatbelt BY Alan Cameron 8 EXPERT OPINIONS 8 TAKING POSITION Mining the Magic More Menu BY Tracy Cozzens 10 SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS OCX to Cost More Come Later OCX Must Navigate Latest Acquisition Reforms LightSquared Testing the Sequel IRNSS Nears Completion GLONASS Special K 12 PNT ROUNDUP Navigating GPS Free and MEMS Inertial Trends Exploiting Fingerprints Other Smartphone Features 14 LAUNCHPAD New OEM Survey UAV and Transportation products 49 RESEARCH ONLINE AD INDEX 50 SEEN HEARD OPINIONS AND DEPARTMENTS
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