Swarming Technologies & Solutions is developing a navigation system in environments where the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) does not provide a reliable signal and therefore it is not desirable to rely solely on it. Recent advances in visual localization are taken into account, in particular different visual odometry algorithms will be used. To develop a robust and reliable solution for vehicle localization, we will use an on-board RGB camera as well as the different inertial and localization sensors necessary for the operation of most of the autopilots on the market.
A Kalman filter based localization method will be used for the fusion of vision based localization data with the GNSS signal, obtaining a suitable vehicle location when GNSS is not available.