An autonomous boat needs a dependable answer to a basic question: where is it? When satellite navigation cannot supply one, the machinery for planning a route still needs a position it can trust. A British trial has tested an alternative that looks towards the shore.
Voyant Innovations says it demonstrated satellite-independent navigation for the UK Ministry of Defence aboard a Kraken K3 Scout uncrewed surface vessel in the Solent. Its announcement, dated 5 October, describes software comparing live radar imagery with pre-existing terrain reference maps to estimate the vessel’s position without relying on global navigation satellite systems.
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