AI Navigation & Path Planning Software Developed for Autonomous Vehicles

By Mike Ball / 01 Jul 2021

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tpgroup, a leading developer of cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning-driven solutions that solve complex problems across a wide range of domains, has partnered with Unmanned Systems Technology (“UST”) to demonstrate their expertise in this field. The ‘Gold’ profile highlights how their software solutions enable safe and secure autonomous navigation for single or multiple manned and unmanned platforms, including USVs (unmanned surface vessels), UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), and UGVs (unmanned ground vehicles).

AI path planning for autonomous vehiclesNorthstar is a state-of-the-art software system that has been developed to support transformation in organisations – combining digital world building with a toolbox of autonomy, machine learning decision support, constraint based planning and resource optimisation. It enables assured autonomy and better decision-making.

This software is being used globally from developing and delivering automated targets for the U.S Air Force; showing how self-controlled unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) can help to improve safety and endurance in high-risk marine environments; and optimising production for a global energy company based in the UAE.

Northstar provides assured, dynamic and risk-aware optimised path planning and collision avoidance for single or multiple platforms. Combining known information with live sensor data to create sophisticated dynamic 4-D models of the environment, Northstar is designed to reduce costs and human error on land, at sea and in the air.

AI path planning softwareThe AI-based autonomous navigation system software enhances the autonomy level and capability of platforms to achieve their mission through helping them to understand their environment, even in GPS-denied locations, allowing them to respond to changing conditions in real-time without any need for human intervention.

The AI path-planning system takes into account multiple dynamic user-defined constraints, including specific platform characteristics, performance requirements, fuel consumption, time and cost. These are combined with environmental data from maps, forecasts and sensor data.

All these parameters are fed into a sophisticated digital world-building engine that accurately and dynamically models the environment, taking into account constantly-changing inputs from radar, LiDAR, sonar bathymetry, imaging sensors and more. The result is a multi-layered synthetic model that can be used to plan the most optimal route, avoiding any moving, stationary, mapped or unmapped obstacles.

To find out more about tpgroup and the Northstar AI-based autonomous navigation system software, please visit their profile page:
https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/company/tpgroup/

Posted by Mike Ball Mike Ball is our resident technical editor here at Unmanned Systems Technology. Combining his passion for teaching, advanced engineering and all things unmanned, Mike keeps a watchful eye over everything related to the unmanned technical sector. With over 10 years’ experience in the unmanned field and a degree in engineering, Mike’s been heading up our technical team here for the last 8 years. Connect & Contact

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