NAPS

Exploring complex environments where traditional geo-tracking systems can’t be used (e.g. Sewers, Underground mining) relies on location methods such as SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping). Highly dependent on the environment, such methods are calculation-consuming and suffer from an incrementally drift as the explorer moves.

NAPS technology is aimed at building a real-time nomadic positioning system. It is based on at least 2 communicating mobile agents able to know their respective position thanks to exchange of successive mutual information. This process can be used whatever the environment and its constraints (e.g doesn’t require manual predisposal of reference beacons),has a sober calculation strategy and reduces location error.