Navigation solutions for land and aerial vehicles without GNSS
BadB will increase the autonomy of UAVs and UGVs and make troops more survivable, less reliant on radio links and more productive by allowing them to work with more UAVs and UGVs.
Specific objectives include the development of weather independent up-to-date satellite imagery maps for unmanned aerial and ground vehicles, development of a machine vision module, an image recognition system and development of a path planning system, based on sensor data, cross-platform data sharing and swarming."
BadB will focus on navigation solutions for land and aerial vehicles without relying on global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). This will be achieved by using satellite maps data and machine vision algorithms to determine the position of the vehicle.
Outcomes
weather independent
up-to-date
SATELLITE IMAGERY MAPS
A MACHINE
VISION MODULE
AN IMAGE RECOGNITION
SYSTEM
PATH PLANNING SYSTEM
based on:
sensor data
cross-platform data sharing
swarming
Impact
The expected impact of the project is for European defence forces and the defence industry to have an affordable, platform-agnostic GNSS-free navigation solution for unmanned systems. The mission success rate and quality are improved by using multiple UAVs and UGVs in a single mission with a single operator.
