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Self-driving cars rely heavily on a GPS signal to move around, but as the streets of giant apples are densely populated with tall buildings on either side, the ground point signal is also lost or degraded. This is because satellite signals are obscured, or because radio waves bounce off the landscape and shape various signal paths.
According to the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the diversity of giant buildings (more than two hundred meters) has increased by 650% over the past five years. This is expected to continue to be the best friend by 20% by 2020.
These giant buildings don’t seem to be the only challenge of GPS dependence. Sunspots formed during the 11-year-old magnetic box cycle of the sun cause marked changes in the solar wind. This has an influence on larger surroundings which in turn can also interfere with GPS satellites.
The interruption of GPS signals will have consequences for the safety and operation of autonomous systems that rely heavily on satellite navigation.
That’s why Paul Newman, CTO and founder of the British autonomous vehicle start-up company Oxbotica, has been running a mix of radars, cameras and lasers on an alterlocal.
He says other corporations have tried to do the same through inertial navigation units, combining GPS, gyroscopes and accelerometers. This would decrease reliance on GPS. However, it states that Oxbotica is the only compatible apple that does this with computer, laser or radar vision.
“Our tracking formula uses radar: even if the sky is clear, it surpasses everything you get from a GPS signal, you see through dust or rain. The independence of gps, whether you’re in a canyon or underground, means you can be able to use your own sensors to see what’s happening, and everything stays constant,” he says.
Therefore, generation can be used in mines, ferries, warehouses and ports. This suggests that if a vehicle crosses a forest where you cannot see the sky or a quarry, the line of code does not change. Universal Autonomy’s Platshape software is located in a position used in mines, quarries, warehouses and cities in Europe, Asia and America that, according to Newman, are “urban canyons,” where tall buildings create GPS blind spots.
“If the GPS is there, you operate it, but you don’t accept it as true. If you go underground, GPS. We’ve been seeing consumers who have depended on GPS for years, now we’re giving them to understand that their cars weren’t where they were conceived, they’re more than a metre away and didn’t know it,” Newman says.
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