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Spirent Launches Data Sets of World City Environments to Aid GNSS Receiver Testing
December 26, 2011

Spirent Launches Data Sets of World City Environments to Aid GNSS Receiver Testing

Spirent Communications has launched of a subscription service for live GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, and QZSS) environmental-capture data set samples, recorded at major locations worldwide, in challenging urban and suburban conditions.

The data sets are designed for use with the company’s GSS6400 GNSS Record and Playback test System. They encompass a variety of recorded scenarios ranging from drive-through multi-level roads, tunnels, and car parks to drive-throughs in downtown areas with high-rise buildings.

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Making Virtual Solid
November 21, 2011

Making Virtual Solid

FIGURES 1 & 2: True3D Volumetric HUD components and operation (left), Comparison of True3D HUD user view with other types of nav aids (right)

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Many technologies are created before their best applications are even thought about. This leads to a business phenomenon known as “technology push” in contrast to “consumer pull.” The True3D Volumetric HUD technology did not share this path.

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Staying In Lane
November 16, 2011

Staying In Lane

Next-generation car navigation may well require the ability to identify the lane in which a vehicle is operating on a motorway. This could support advanced driver assistance in general as well as the observation and study of driver behavior and traffic flow. Such road vehicle applications call for sub-meter positioning accuracy, often in real-time — all this preferably at low-cost.

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True3D HUD Wins Global SatNav Competition

True3D HUD Wins Global SatNav Competition

Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs, gets behind the wheel with MVSC’s HUD system at the Makers Faire in San Mateo, California. MVSC CEO Chris Grabowski sits in the passenger seat; CTO Tom Zamojdo is in straw hat. Photo by Valerie Hall.

A San Francisco Bay Area company — Making Virtual Solid–California (MVSC), which snared a trio of awards in a global GNSS competition for its novel approach to driver assistance, is still in early phases of development.

The origins of the company, however, go back more than 40 years to the Cold War era when its principals, Chris Grabowski and Tom Zamojdo, were studying physics and theoretical mathematics at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

But more about that later — first, the news.

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Augmented Reality System Wins Top Prizes in 2011 European Satellite Navigation Competition
October 20, 2011

Augmented Reality System Wins Top Prizes in 2011 European Satellite Navigation Competition

MVS-California, the 2011 USA Challenge winner, grabs the top prize at European Satellite Navigation Competition (pictured: ESNC organizers Thorsten Rudolph and Ulrike Daniels with Bavarian state minister Martin Zeil and winners Tom Zamojdo and Juliana Carnes Clegg. (The two women on the right are unidentified.)

MVS-California, LLC, winner of the USA Challenge, took the top global prize in this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) with the company’s True3D Head Up Display & Navigation System.
The company’s innovation is an augmented reality navigational display engine designed to provide non-distracting, translucent location guidance to untrained operators of any type of vehicle.

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True3D Volumetric HUD
September 19, 2011

True3D Volumetric HUD

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The following was first of five finalists in the 2011 USA Challenge. The North American regional contest in the European Satellite Navigation Competition(ESNC) is part of a global search for the newest, best and most innovative GNSS application ideas. True 3D Volumetric HUD went on to win  €20,000 in prize money as the international winner, the 2011 Galileo Master.

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Zeljko Popovic
September 13, 2011

Zeljko Popovic

Zeljko Popovic is a research engineer at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. in Southfield, Michigan, investigating GPS positioning performance in obstructed environments for the needs of cooperative vehicle safety.

He has previously developed automotive control algorithms and software for Siemens VDO and Visteon.

Popovic earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering (mechatronics option) from the University of Waterloo and an M.S. in computer engineering from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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By Inside GNSS
Telematics@China Conference
September 4, 2011

Telematics@China Conference

The 2011 Telematics@China conference and exhibition will be held at the Shanghai Marriott Hotel City Centre in Shanghai, China from Wednesday through Friday, December 7-9.

The annual event, which began in 2008, is sponsored by the Automotive Engineers of China (SAE-China) and supported by a number of government departments. The conference will feature 90 speakers from all sectors of the telematics industry. Organizers expect 1,000 attendees from China and the rest of the world.

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European Union GNSS Receiver Workshop 2011
March 11, 2011

European Union GNSS Receiver Workshop 2011

The 2011 EU GNSS Receiver Workshop will take place at the University of Nottingham’s Geospatial Building on April 14 and 15.

In addition to talks, the event features project demonstrations that make use of the GNSS Research and Applications Center of Excellence (GRACE) test facilities. These include a GPS and Galileo full constellation Spirent simulator, signal record and replay devices and the roof-based fixed test track designed for dynamic research and testing.

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GPS/ GNSS Community Feels New Telecom Interference Threat from LightSquared
January 30, 2011

GPS/ GNSS Community Feels New Telecom Interference Threat from LightSquared

In his State of the Union address on January 25, President Obama held up the Global Positioning System as a prime example of government providing “cutting-edge scientists and inventors with the support that they need” to create world-leading, job-creating innovation.

The following day, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) International Bureau approved a conditional waiver allowing LightSquared Subsidiary LLC to build tens of thousands of terrestrial transmitters for wireless communications in frequencies on either side of the GPS L1 band.

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