GPS World, December 2017

TAKING POSITION Q How will safety issues raised by increasing autonomous traffic in the air and on roads affect the GNSS industry A Due to increasing autonomous traffic the GNSS industry will have to adopt the concepts of collective tracking mechanisms in the shared ecosystem Inherently all the cars drones rovers will have the sensors to track the traffic on the fly and make intelligent navigation decisions but in case of any system malfunction the collective tracking of devices can facilitate social interactions between the rovers This will serve as an added layer of security in case an autonomous social member goes rogue A Future autonomous vehicles will demand full situational awareness and extremely reliable accurate and secure navigation systems GNSS will not meet the stringent demands of these autonomous vehicles To address the inevitable situations where GNSS signals become unusable due to attenuation or interference or untrustworthy due to spoofing receivers should be coupled with sensors such as IMUs lidar and cameras and exploit the plenitude of ambient signals of opportunity such as cellular digital TV and Wi Fi A Safety issues raised by increasing autonomous automotive and airborne traffic will escalate the product development standards and performance requirements of GNSS software hardware and correction services used The GNSS industry is challenged to increase accuracy on lower cost platforms by utilizing multi frequency multiconstellation sensor fusion and precise point positioning To be able to rely on GNSS in auto guidance applications the industry also needs to incorporate GNSS integrity functionalities into our products SANCHIT AGARWAL VICE PRESIDENT FIELD OPERATIONS NEARMAP ZAK M KASSAS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ELECTRICAL COMPUTER ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE JONATHAN AULD VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING AND SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS NOVATEL AsteRx m2a Smaller than a credit card low power dual antenna RTK receiver ideal for UAS and INS integrations Drone equipped with the AsteRx m2 powered AiRobot Inspector Pack AIM anti jamming technology Precise Heading in a compact design Best in class RTK cm level accuracy DECEMBER 2017 WWW GPSWORLD COM GPS WORLD 9