Septentrio demos AV localisation tech

Septentrio provided GPS/global navigation satellite system (GNSS) technology for computer vision supplier Artisense’s Visual Inertial Navigation System (VINS).
October 11, 2019 Read time: 1 min


Septentrio says the GNSS technology provides centimetre-level positioning to the VINS system with the accuracy required for lane-level manoeuvring and vehicle to vehicle warning systems. Cameras and inertial sensors continue localisation as the vehicle moves into tunnels or parking garages with no line of sight to GNNS satellites, the company adds.

The VINS is expected to combine computer vision, inertial sensors and GNSS measurements to deliver 3D positioning and orientation information in any environment, even indoors.

Septentrio business development director Jan Van Hees says: “The result of our cooperation is precise localisation in any environment offering positioning reliability and redundancy needed for safety-critical applications such as autonomous vehicles or robotics.”

A demonstration at Auto.ai in Berlin offered rides around the German capital in a car featuring VINS technology. One screen inside the car continuously displayed its location as the system continued localisation in all locations including tunnels and parking garages. The second screen featured a real-time 3D point-cloud reconstruction of the car’s surroundings.

Location Based Systems

Related Content

  • June 10, 2021
    Robotic Research: harnessing AV potential
    Robotic Research is leading in AV R&D, from work with the US Army to enabling the first automated BRT line in North America: Gordon Feller assesses what the company is doing
    Read More
  • April 10, 2014
    Smart cameras offer real-time alerts
    Intelligent traffic cameras open up a host of possibilities for traffic planners and controllers alike. If traffic management centres (TMCs) around the world are to cope with the increasing demands of growing traffic flows while maintaining or improving transport safety and efficiency, then video monitoring will have to be supplemented by automated warnings of incidents or deviations. According to Patrik Anderson, business development director at Swedish camera manufacturer Axis Communications, it is no
    Read More
  • February 1, 2012
    Intersection management, cooperative infrastructures - what next?
    What do recent vehicle recalls mean for future cooperative infrastructures? Anthony Smith takes a look. As ITS industry stakeholders converge on Amsterdam for the 2010 Cooperative Mobility Showcase, an unprecedentedly wide range of technologies will be on display demonstrating what might be achievable in the future from innovations based on Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications.
    Read More
  • January 11, 2013
    In-vehicle vision-based systems and autonomous vehicles
    The Artificial Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VisLab) of Italy’s Parma University has built itself a fine pedigree in basic and applied research which has developed machine vision algorithms and intelligent systems for the automotive field. In 1998, a VisLab-equipped Lancia Thema named ‘Argo’ travelled along the famous Mille Miglia race route and completed 98 per cent of it autonomously using then-current technology. In 2005, VisLab provided the vision element of the Terramax, a collaborative un
    Read More

Highlighted Content