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infiniDome Sturdy Navigation System Completes Subject Demonstration: Correct navigation in GNSS-Denied environments
by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian M. Crosby
The GPS Safety Firm infiniDome has teamed with Honeywell Aerospace and Straightforward Aerial in demonstrating the primary UAV-tailored , Sturdy Navigation System. With the combination of GPS anti-jamming know-how, Radar Velocity System and Inertial Navigation System, the system permits UAVs to function safely and successfully, even in GPS challenged or totally denied environments.
Unmanned Aerial Automobiles (UAVs) are more and more getting used instead of manned autos. Nevertheless, UAVs are nearly totally reliant on GNSS (International Navigation Satellite tv for pc System) for essentially the most fundamental of performance required for navigation, particularly for BVLOS (Past Visible Line Of Sight) and autonomous operations.
The weak and weak nature of the GNSS sign renders it closely weak in opposition to jamming assaults, which might be carried out from massive distances utilizing a easy jammer bought on-line.
Builders presently attempt to tackle this downside both by creating “secure touchdown protocols” in GNSS-challenged environments or by including varied sorts of sensors to their flight controllers which, in some situations, present an inexpensive supply of positioning information. Nevertheless, they fail to work in lots of conditions similar to when flying at sure altitudes or excessive speeds, in fog or darkness, above sea and different such situations. The Sturdy Navigation System, collectively developed by Honeywell and infiniDome, goals to unravel this downside.
By pairing the GNSS-based UAV-tailored Honeywell’s Compact Inertial Navigation System (HCINS) with infiniDome’s GNSS anti-jamming know-how (GPSdome), built-in with Honeywell’s Radar-based Velocity System (HRVS), the Sturdy Navigation System is a complete answer that may be put in on practically any UAV, granting it steady, correct navigation information in GNSS-challenged or totally GNSS-denied environments.
The Sturdy Navigation System, put in on a personalized model of the Osprey Hexa-copter, underwent an illustration in Israel in opposition to 2 military-grade directional jammers in an effort to show the System’s capabilities in sustaining autonomous navigation operation for multi-copters underneath completely different GPS/GNSS jamming situations. The demonstration was attended by Israeli defence chiefs, in addition to varied drone and UAV corporations and authorities end-users.
Common, unprotected UAV, when confronted with military-grade jammers, lose GNSS accuracy inside 3-5 seconds, requiring the operator to imagine handbook management to keep away from crashing.
With the safety of the Sturdy Navigation System answer, the UAV accomplished all deliberate assessments and demonstrated that in GNSS-challenged and totally GNSS-denied environments, the UAV isn’t solely capable of safely land or return house, but additionally perform its BVLOS / Autonomous mission.
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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he acquired a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in know-how, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a workers author.
Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, an expert drone providers market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone business and the regulatory atmosphere for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles targeted on the industrial drone area and is a global speaker and acknowledged determine within the business. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising for brand spanking new applied sciences.
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