Insights success The 10 Fastest Growing Security Solution Provider Companies november2016-min

CXO Standpaoint
Assured
Motion For
Any Vehicle
PS has been a boon for the world of transportation
Gin general and for the robotics industry in
particular. Despite this, robots have failed to
permeate our world. They still lose track of where they are
and as we see in the news both military and commercial
drones fall out of the sky. After years of using robots to
solve difficult, real world problems such as landmine
detection, mapping out the hazardous chemicals and
detecting radiation, 5D came to realize that reliable, useful
behavior is dependent on accurate positioning. GPS lacks
accuracy and doesn’t work indoors. For instance, GPS
systems often still think you are on the highway, even after
you take an exit. Vision and laser systems can be used to aid
in localization and 5D has incorporated a great deal of those
technologies to aid in navigation. Unfortunately, neither
lasers nor cameras can see around corners and are easily
disrupted by dust, rain, snow, and dynamic environments.
This lack of reliability reduces value of mobile robots
across the board and impacts hopes of more efficient,
autonomous driving.
To address this problem, 5D created and patented a
technology that provides reliable, centimeter level accuracy
and reliable behavior in any environment. The 5D module
embodies this technology, including an innovative
Ultra-Wideband necessary to provide accurate position,
orientation and behavior software for safety and
autonomous navigation. The reliability and accuracy have
been proven for landmine detection, squad support missions
and hazmat environments for both ground vehicles and
drones in the military. Now we are bringing the technology
into a variety of commercial environments starting with
heavy equipment and moving towards intelligent
transportation. The technology can go onto people, robots,
drones, automotive systems and anything else you might
want to track.
There are two complementary ways to use the 5D module.
The first uses relative positioning to allow safe motion,
obstacle avoidance, follow, wagon training and a host of
vehicle to vehicle applications. In this relative frame of
reference the modules link to each other without any
dependence on GPS or a global reference frame and no
modules are necessary in the infrastructure. Like neuronsin
the brain, modules that support a particular function work
together and specific clusters of modules can dedicate
themselves to a particular function while still maintaining
recursive awareness to a larger ecosystem.
The second way to use the technology is as an absolute
position reference where modules in the environment can
be a GPS enhancement. In this model, applications
designed around GPS can work as intended, but with much
higher reliability and accuracy. With the 5D module it is
possible to accurately judge follow distance and perform
predictive braking. Within minutes, it is possible to add the
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