Name: Why is “good enough” positioning not okay in ag autonomy?
Start: 2021-05-27T15:00:00Z
End: 2021-05-27T15:00:11.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division is part of Hexagon, a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions that is putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, and quality across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, safety, and mobility applications. Hexagon technologies are shaping urban and production ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous — ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.

Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division is a global technology leader, pioneering end-to-end solutions for assured positioning on land, sea, and air. For us, positioning is only assured when it is precise, accurate, reliable, available and authentic.

With the dramatic rise in demand for positioning and location-based services across every business landscape, our solutions are empowering intelligent positioning ecosystems in vital industries that depend on our ability to tackle the most complex challenges in the most demanding of environments.

Our safety-of-life applications are paving the way for Autonomous X, where cars, UAVs, industrial vehicles, trains, vessels and more will be enabled to operate safely, securely, reliably and efficiently thanks to our solutions that provide assured autonomy and positioning.

Hexagon's Autonomy & Positioning division includes leading brands NovAtel, VERIPOS and AutonomouStuff. Our solutions are critical to precision agriculture, defense, automotive, transportation, marine, survey, oil and gas and many other applications.

Our technologies focus on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Inertial Navigation Systems (INS), including global correction services, anti-jamming and anti-spoofing, as well as advanced algorithms for specialized applications.

How can we make mining, construction and other industrial applications more efficient, safe and sustainable? 

In long haul mining, resource extraction in remote areas is a challenge with the high cost of transporting materials and labour, not to mention travel-fatigued drivers manually operating road trains. Autonomous road trains can solve these challenges. 

In this webinar, Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning divisions’ core autonomy segment director Lee Baldwin shares Hexagon's work with Mineral Resources Limited in Western Australia to develop the world’s first autonomous road train with autonomous platooning capabilities.
 
He’ll explain how the autonomous road train improves the safety of long-range haulage, provides cost-efficiencies and reduces fuel emissions to reach sustainability goals faster. Join us for this webinar to discover how this innovative solution benefits bulk haulage in other off-road primary industries beyond mining.

Autonomous Road Trains for Long Haul Mining

What is radio frequency interference? How do you detect and protect against jamming and spoofing? 

In this webinar, Hexagon | NovAtel applications engineer Micky Olynik and core customer support lead James Chan introduce, explain and demonstrate RF interference and the ways it degrades GNSS/GPS positioning performance. 

Identifying and detecting interference is the first step towards mitigating jamming and spoofing. Join us for this introductory webinar to start learning how to protect your position, navigation and timing measurements.

An introduction to RF interference, jamming and spoofing

Autonomous applications like self-driving cars, robo-trucking and delivery drones require highly accurate and reliable positioning systems. GNSS hardware, software and additional sensors like LiDAR, photogrammetry and inertial navigation systems help support precise positioning, but even these advanced technologies need an added layer of reliable accuracy. 

GNSS correction services through precise point positioning (PPP) or real-time kinematic (RTK) technologies extend the accuracy, reliability and overall quality of your system’s performance, making them vital for autonomous applications on land, at sea and in the air. 

Join Sara Masterson, Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division’s positioning services director, for her webinar on how GNSS corrections enable autonomous technologies through precise and reliable positioning.

Where precision meets reliability: Enabling autonomy through GNSS corrections

The ADS for Rural America project utilizes an automated Ford Transit 350HD platform developed as part of Hexagon's Smart Autonomous Mobility (SAM) solutions portfolio to collect ADS data and passenger impressions while navigating a 47-mile loop of rural Iowa roads.

As part of our SAM Talk series for 2021, learn how the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) at the University of Iowa plans to make this data available for ADS developers using a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Automated Driving Systems (ADS) for Rural America SAM Talk

Technological developments build upon what has come before. In this presentation, Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division’s director of correction services Paul Alves explains why we have to stop thinking of Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) corrections as two separate technologies. By seeing them as a continuous chain of developments, we’re able to continue innovating and achieve the best of both technologies: RTK From the Sky.

Learn about the evolution of RTK, PPP and the frontiers of GNSS accuracy in this webinar on April 15. Register now to watch live or on-demand.

Frontiers of GNSS Accuracy

Ali Broumandan, Resilient GNSS lead at Hexagon | NovAtel, presents his team’s research on robust spoofing detection using a dual-antenna high-precision GNSS receiver. Showcasing the latest anti-jam technology, Broumandan reveals how a dual-antenna system better protects your position, navigation and time in GNSS contested environments.

This is the third of a three-part technical series from Hexagon | NovAtel. Join us for the rest of the series: 
GNSS/INS Sensor Fusion with On-Board Vehicle Sensors (on-demand) – https://bit.ly/39el1AS 
Precision GNSS and Sensor Fusion in Autonomous Vehicles (on-demand) – https://bit.ly/3s56b8k

Robust Dual-Antenna Receiver: Jamming/Spoofing Detection and Mitigation

Tier IV launched the first autonomous taxi service in Japan, relying on the unique combination of Autoware open-source autonomous driving software and custom drive-by-wire system development from AutonomouStuff.

In our second SAM Talk exploring the Enable pillar of Hexagon's Smart Autonomous Mobility portfolio, Chief Autonomous Officer Bobby Hambrick and Tier IV Chief Technical Officer Shinpei Kato discuss the work that went into enabling the robotaxi and its future.

Enabling Tier IV Robotaxi: Autoware and Hexagon | AutonomouStuff

Brett Kruger, software development engineer at Hexagon | NovAtel, demonstrates his team’s work on improving safety and performance levels of autonomous cars through GNSS and sensor fusion technologies. He shares how additional sensors like inertial systems, visual odometry, and more enhance the performance, safety, and availability of ADAS and automated systems.

This is the second of a three-part technical series from Hexagon | NovAtel. Join us for the rest of the series: 
GNSS/INS Sensor Fusion with On-Board Vehicle Sensors (on-demand) – https://bit.ly/39el1AS 
Robust Dual-Antenna Receiver: Jamming/Spoofing Detection and Mitigation on February 25 – https://bit.ly/3njZzPT

Precision GNSS and Sensor Fusion in Autonomous Vehicles

Ryan Dixon, Sensor Fusion and Autonomy lead at Hexagon | NovAtel, shares his team’s work optimizing a GNSS+INS positioning solution across a range of IMUs, including those used in automotive manufacturing. IMUs range in accuracy levels and price points, and Dixon’s research demonstrates that, when combined with GNSS and other sensor readings, IMU measurements become more reliable and precise, enabling autonomous applications like self-driving cars.

This is the first of a three-part technical series from Hexagon | NovAtel. Join us for the rest of the series: 
Precision GNSS and Sensor Fusion in Autonomous Vehicles on February 18 – https://bit.ly/3s56b8k  
Robust Dual-Antenna Receiver: Jamming/Spoofing Detection and Mitigation on February 25 – https://bit.ly/3njZzPT

GNSS/INS Sensor Fusion with On-Board Vehicle Sensors

The road to autonomy looks different off-road. While the safety standards and equipment expectations are different, the necessity of perception and sensing devices like LiDAR, RADAR, cameras, and more remain the same.  

In this joint presentation, Hexagon | AutonomouStuff Segment Director, Core Autonomy Lee Baldwin and Hexagon | NovAtel Director, Agriculture Sales & Support Tanner Whitmire explain these unique sensing and perception systems, and how they enable vision processing, object detection and classification, and more through sensor fusion.

Autonomy for Off-Road Applications

Hexagon's Smart Autonomous Mobility (SAM) solutions portfolio concentrates expertise across corporate divisions and disciplines to deliver the hardware, software and services necessary for autonomous operations in a variety of industries — mining, agriculture, defense and transportation, from single autonomous vehicle prototypes to entire freight hauling fleets. This introduction to SAM explores the vast capabilities Hexagon brings to market, setting the stage for a series of presentations in 2021 that will demonstrate with real-world applications the potential of SAM's three pillars: enable, accelerate and deploy.

Smart Autonomous Mobility: Empowering an Autonomous Future

Our on-demand webinar series begins with James Chan, North America Team Lead A&P Core Customer Support  at Hexagon | NovAtel®, explaining the underlying calculations GNSS technologies use to determine positioning.

The Calculations Underlying GNSS - Episode 1

Episode three of our on-demand webinar series features Hexagon | NovAtel Technical Marketing Specialist Paul Verlaine Gakne explaining how satellite signals are received and processed to output a position.

We hope this series sparks your imagination! When you’re ready to learn more about GNSS technologies and its applications across industries, download our free Introduction to GNSS book at https://bit.ly/324fsRR.

Reception Through Antennas to Receivers - Episode 3

Hexagon | NovAtel Director of Marketing Neil Gerein explains how GNSS is used to solve different positioning problems in different industries. Focusing on the agriculture, automotive, and defense industries, he outlines how GNSS and its related technologies offers comprehensive solutions to deliver positioning and autonomy – assured.

We hope this series sparks your imagination! When you’re ready to learn more about GNSS technologies and its applications across industries, download our free Introduction to GNSS book at https://bit.ly/324fsRR.

GNSS Applications - Episode 7

Hexagon | NovAtel Business Development Manager for Defense and Military Peter Soar introduces the strategies and methods to protect GNSS positioning in a contested environment. Through specialized equipment and algorithms, Peter demonstrates how we can protect position, navigation, and timing (PNT) information from jamming and spoofing.

We hope this series sparks your imagination! When you’re ready to learn more about GNSS technologies and its applications across industries, download our free Introduction to GNSS book at https://bit.ly/324fsRR.

Operating in Contested GNSS Conditions - Episode 6

Classic GNSS positioning systems are good while there is an operator in the tractor cab, but what happens when there is no longer a driver taking control during position interruptions?
In this presentation Hexagon | NovAtel’s Agriculture Autonomy Product Manager James Szabo discusses the challenges of classic GNSS positioning and how we are overcoming them to support autonomous equipment in agriculture.

Why is “good enough” positioning not okay in ag autonomy?

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