Advanced Navigation acquires Vai Photonics
Advanced Navigation has acquired of Vai Photonics, a spin-out from The Australian National University (ANU) developing patented photonic sensors for precision navigation.
Vai Photonics will join Sydney, Australia-headquartered Advanced Navigation to commercialise their research into autonomous and robotic applications across land, air, sea and space.
In a statement, James Spollard, CTO and co-founder of Vai Photonics said: “Precision navigation when GPS is unavailable or unreliable is a major challenge in the development of autonomous systems. Our emerging photonic sensing technology will enable positioning and navigation that is orders of magnitude more stable and precise than existing solutions in these environments.
“By combining laser interferometry and electro-optics with advanced signal processing algorithms and real-time software, we can measure how fast a vehicle is moving in three dimensions. As a result, we can accurately measure how the vehicle is moving through the environment, and from this infer where the vehicle is located with great precision.”
The technology, in development for over 15 years at ANU, is expected to solve complex autonomy challenges across aerospace, automotive, weather, space exploration as well as railways and logistics.
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