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"Septentrio's high-precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers are currently installed in a wide range of unmanned devices including industrial and agricultural robots and delivery robots, providing accurate positioning data. We expect them to be applied to humanoid robots soon as well."
Bruno Bougard, vice president of Septentrio, showed a thumbnail-sized GNSS receiver module to a Seoul Economic Daily reporter who visited the company's headquarters in Leuven, Belgium on the 10th of this month (local time). Septentrio is the world's leading developer and manufacturer of high-precision GNSS receivers, holding proprietary satellite positioning technology.
Septentrio's receivers capture signals across multiple frequency bands transmitted in real time from satellites thousands of kilometers away in space and determine positioning data through the company's own technology. Notably, Septentrio has also secured technology that corrects positioning data to accurate values even in signal-disrupted environments. The receiver demonstrated on-site that day showed the headquarters' latitude and longitude with a margin of error of just 3 millimeters from the actual coordinates. "The receiver is linked to all major global navigation satellite systems — Europe's Galileo, the U.S. GPS and China's BeiDou — and the result was corrected using signals from a total of 39 satellites," Bougard explained.
Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) positioning technology is drawing particular attention as an essential solution that could accelerate the era of autonomous driving. Unmanned autonomous devices operating on artificial intelligence (AI) technology need to determine their location without error in order to move accurately.
In this regard, the European Union recognized the importance of receiver technology early on and has collaborated with Septentrio and others from the initial stages of commercializing its independent satellite navigation system, Galileo. The effort was aimed at securing technological sovereignty. Dominique Hayes, a policy officer at the European Commission, stressed that "Galileo is far more precise than the U.S.-made GPS," adding that "it is now a global technology that can even be used in Antarctica." ▷See Pages 4-5
