Experts from Greensea Systems, Geodetics, AutonomouStuff, NovAtel and KVH discuss challenges and solutions to achieving precise navigation and control in autonomous and unmanned systems including underwater ROVs, miniature subsea robotics, aerial autonomous and mobile mapping applications, and driverless vehicle initiatives. These IEEE-hosted webinars tackle topics like navigation without GNSS via the integration of high performance fiber optic gyro (FOG)-based inertial sensors, and designing architectures to overcome the challenges to achieving successful sensor fusion.
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