The core perception system of unmanned operation vehicles

An autonomous operation vehicle is only as good as its pose estimate. GNSS alone gives position but no heading, and degrades under containers, bridges and canopy. The GNS982 fuses RTK dual-antenna GNSS with a MEMS inertial platform into one unit: centimetre position, 0.1° heading, and an attitude stream that keeps flowing when the satellites stop.

0.1° true heading

RTK 0.8 cm positioning

60 s GNSS-outage bridging

Why an autonomous vehicle needs combined navigation, not GPS + guesswork

Heading is where single-antenna GNSS fails — a stopped vehicle has no course-over-ground, and magnetometers lie next to steel chassis and drive motors. The GNS982's dual-antenna RTK arrangement measures true heading to 0.1° per metre of baseline, while its internal Kalman filter fuses gyroscope and accelerometer data to hold 0.15° attitude and 0.1 m/s velocity through a full 60 seconds of GNSS lockout.

Typical use case

One unit, three jobs on every mission

Localization & mapping pose feed — fused position, velocity and attitude at 5 Hz give the perception stack a georeferenced pose for lidar and camera data, indoors-out.
Path-tracking feedforward — true heading from the dual antennas lets the steering controller command curvature instead of chasing course-over-ground noise at low speed.
GNSS-outage bridging in depots and yards — during the 60 s lockout window the INS carries pose through docking bays, under cranes and between high stacks — without stopping the mission.