SPRINT-Navs and collabs | Soundwaves: The Sonardyne podcast | Episode 2

In this episode we explore how our SPRINT-Nav is at the heart of subsea robotic navigation and data acquisition. Find out how an industrial research collaboration with Voyis and McGill University (Canada) has utilised SPRINT-Nav to deliver new capabilities in seabed exploration and mapping.

Aidan Thorn, Marine Robotics Business Development Manager
(Sonardyne), speaks to expert guests James Forbes, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar (McGill University), Oliver Tracey, Principal Navigation Systems Engineer (Sonardyne) and Thomas Hitchcox, Navigation and Mapping Research Scientist (Sonardyne).


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Further reading
8.48 - Description of ⁠SPRINT-Nav⁠ and other aiding sources – ⁠LBL⁠, ⁠USBL⁠ and ⁠Janus⁠

10:44 - Calibration of laser-to-vehicle extrinsics on
Endurance22 - ⁠https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14993.pdf⁠

15:45 - Outliner rejection for robust pose estimation - ⁠https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.09215.pdf⁠

17:09 - Combining both laser and camera data in a “front end”. In particular, projecting camera images onto 3D point clouds provided by the laser scanner. - ⁠https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.12881.pdf⁠

18:35 - Bounding drift in the navigation solution using loop closures - ⁠https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.02297.pdf⁠ 
 ⁠https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.04885.pdf⁠
 
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Thomas Hitchcox - ⁠  / ⁠  

Oliver Tracey - ⁠  / ⁠  
 
Visit the ⁠Voyis⁠ website - https://voyis.com/
Visit the ⁠McGill⁠ University website - https://www.mcgill.ca/