Agricultural robotics

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Build competitive agritech products with robust and affordable localisation.

To create a best-in-class agritech localisation solution, you need capabilities including: 

  • Being able to preserve position accuracy over long distances, such as across multiple fields.
  • Navigating indoor spaces such as barns with precision.
  • Transitioning between indoor and outdoor spaces seamlessly – including when starting up in the morning.

Put the precision in precision agriculture

Agricultural robots are gaining in popularity, whether on traditional farms or for precision farming. That puts pressure on agricultural robotics manufacturers to produce market-leading products – and in many cases, the localisation solution you choose is the key differentiator. 

OXTS solution

The OXTS solution for agricultural robotics

Agricultural robotics navigation systems need to maintain position accuracy over long distances, be robust enough to survive farm life, and be able to navigate both indoors and outdoors in order to be as effective as possible. Working with OXTS, you can provide these capabilities in a commercially attractive package, creating a highly competitive autonomous agricultural robot.  

  • Smooth, high-quality PNT data from ITAR-free hardware
    Our GNSS/INS devices use careful calibration, sophisticated sensor fusion and an advanced navigation engine to deliver highly reliable data in a variety of environments.
  • Autonomy-specific features
    Unlock specific capabilities in your GNSS/INS such as Hot Start initialisation and PTP synchronisation.
  • Software to make your project easier
    As well as our free NAVsuite applications for configuring and monitoring your GNSS/INS during build and test, we have autonomy-specific tools including ROS2 drivers designed to remove complexity from your project.
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Making our technology yours 

Every OXTS GNSS/INS can be instantly customised for the work you need it to do – whether that’s navigation, georeferencing, or autonomous navigation. 

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GNSS/INS features for autonomous navigation

To create an attractive and commercially viable agritech vehicle you need robust navigation and user-friendly features. The following optional features are all included in the autonomy feature bundle: 

  • gx/ix tight-coupling – Speeds up RTK reacquisition after transient but complete GNSS outage meaning more accurate navigation data for longer (see example below).
  • Hot Start initialisation – enables your GNSS/INS to initialise while stationary, even without a GNSS signal, so your machine can initialise indoors and navigate outside by itself.
  • PTP and gPTP time synchronisation – master and client functionality makes it easier to integrate your GNSS/INS into an existing payload.
  • UCOM data messaging – gives you more control over your data outputs to simplify your architecture, increase safety, and more.

GNSS vs OXTS gx/ix tight-coupling technology…

An OXTS INS can integrate single-satellite aiding data into its navigation solution, and reduce the time taken to reacquire RTK lock, in real time. Using NAVSolve, you can reprocess your raw data and still benefit from gx/ix tight-coupling processing.

Tools for your project

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OXTS ROS drivers

Decode the data from your GNSS/INS into ROS messages for use by your control stack. 

DISCOVER ROS DRIVERS
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NAVsuite

  1. Configure your OXTS GNSS/INS. 
  1. Monitor the navigation data from your GNSS/INS in real time. 
DISCOVER NAVsuite
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Not sure what you need?

There are lots of options for building your inertial navigation system. If you’d like to talk through your project with a member of our team, we’re here to help you build your inertial navigation solution.

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