High-precision GPS can improve the accuracy of global positioning exponentially, and widespread application has the potential to bring AVs a long way toward mass adoption, industry insiders contend. A recent demonstration of the technology by Swift Navigation drives home the point.

A precise positioning system developed by Swift Navigation is an example of the type of technology that could help accelerate the use of autonomous vehicles, a panel said.

Despite advances in computer vision, laser imaging, HD (high definition) mapping, and 5G, SAE Level 3 autonomous vehicles have not yet met the reliability, cost, and safety requirements for mass-market deployment. Skylark delivers uniform, centimeter-accurate positioning for navigation, ADAS, and vehicle autonomy and is being deployed by automotive OEMs and Tier One suppliers like Bosch.

Autonomous vehicles need more precise positioning systems than GPS. Deutsche Telekom’s Precise Positioning solution with Swift Navigation has proven itself in a live test.

Autonomous cars find the way to their destination using a number of critical technologies, including some version of a global position system and a central brain to interpret that and other data. But many of those technologies are not reliable or accurate enough today, and may not be for years to come.

GPS World’s interview with Fergus Noble, CTO at Swift Navigation about recent GNSS
receiver innovations.

An independent exploration of the impact of GNSS corrections networks on mass-market applications. Learn how Swift Navigation’s Skylark wide-lane ambiguity resolution provided stellar performance results when benchmarked to three other CORS networks utilizing 35 locations throughout the United States.