This year saw significant developments in GPS-denied technology for defense, military, and security applications.
In a world where contested environments and GNSS signal interference are increasingly prevalent, GPS-denied solutions have emerged as a critical capability for ensuring mission success.
By leveraging cutting-edge systems and innovative technologies, GPS-denied solutions can enable reliable positioning, navigation, and situational awareness without reliance on satellite signals and offer another layer of resilience against jamming and signal loss.
Throughout 2024, Defense Advancement has been at the forefront of covering these breakthroughs, highlighting how GPS-denied solutions empowers military forces across air, land, and sea domains. Below are five standout articles from 2024 showcasing the latest advancements in this essential and rapidly developing field.
1. Trillium Demonstrates GPS-Denied Targeting Capability to U.S. Army
Trillium Engineering successfully demonstrated a new targeting capability for GPS-denied environments to the United States Army.
Trillium’s GD-Loc capability achieved exceptional target location accuracy within six meters in both day and night scenarios, showcasing its potential to enhance mission-critical systems for warfighters operating in areas with limited or compromised GPS availability.
Trillium’s GD-Loc utilizes advanced computer vision techniques to rapidly generate highly accurate geo-coordinates for tracked objects, even when the navigation system is experiencing significant position and heading errors.
2. Inertial Navigation: The GPS-Denied Navigation Solution
Inertial Labs released a paper outlining the benefits of GPS-denied navigation solutions, specifically delving into the uses of their range of inertial solutions in defense operations.
At times INS can be unreliable in GPS-denied environments, including underground, indoors, and other common mission environments.
To combat this, the Inertial Labs’ INS uses a combination of inertial sensors and sensor fusion algorithms to provide accurate positioning and navigation even in GPS-denied environments.
At InterGeo 2024, Honeywell highlighted its N580 + HRVS (Honeywell Radar Velocity Sensor) system, a low SWaP-C solution to solve GNSS-denied navigation in land vehicles.
The Honeywell HGuide N580+HRVS combines multiple sensors and sophisticated algorithms to provide accurate and reliable navigation data without relying on GNSS signals.
Honeywell’s N580+HRVS solution offers an innovative approach that ensures continuity of navigation even in the most challenging conditions.
4. New Technology in Development to Deliver Resilient Navigation for Airborne Platforms
Advanced Navigation signed an MoU with international defense leader MBDA to develop a resilient navigation system, integrating MBDA’s NILEQ absolute positioning technology to provide reliable navigation for various airborne platforms.
MBDA’s NILEQ absolute positioning technology uses terrain fingerprinting to provide resilient, interference-resistant positioning. It targets applications in modern uncrewed and manned airborne systems requiring enhanced navigation capabilities in contested or GPS-denied environments.
This breakthrough aligns with growing demands for GPS-independent solutions in both military and commercial domains.
5. US Army Contracts ANELLO Photonics to Demo GPS-Denied Navigation Technology
ANELLO Photonics, the creator of the SiPhOG and a provider of cutting-edge integrated silicon photonics solutions for navigation in GPS-denied environments, was awarded a Phase II SBIR contract for the U.S. Army.
During the eighteen-month period, ANELLO is demonstrating the capabilities of its innovative silicon photonics optical gyroscope technology and sensor fusion technology for navigation in environments without GPS.
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