Swiss firm U-Blox’s high-precision positioning technology is available on Nvidia’s Jetson Edge AI and Drive Hyperion platforms for industrial and automotive markets.

U-Blox has also joined the Nvidia Jetson partner ecosystem, which delivers modern AI for autonomous machines and other edge AI applications across all industrial markets.

U-Box’s high-precision positioning technology (www.u-blox.com/en/precise-positioning-made-easy) combines multi-constellation, multi-band GNSS RTK receivers with GNSS corrections to deliver centimetre-level accuracy localisations in real time for the end device.

Designed to be accessible and effortless to use, engineers in the ecosystem can quickly develop and deploy AI-powered autonomous mobile robots, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision agriculture equipment and other autonomous machines.

For autonomous driving, U-Blox is listed as a reference device for IMU and GNSS sensors and accessories ecosystem of the Nvidia Drive AGX Orin developer kit (developer.nvidia.com/drive/agx). The reference accessory board includes the firm’s Zed-F9K (www.u-blox.com/en/product/zed-f9k-module) high-precision dead reckoning GNSS module with integrated IMU sensors and native support of the U-Blox PointPerfect GNSS correction service.

“Our work with Nvidia will help make it simpler for engineers to develop autonomous vehicles and mobile robots based on U-Blox high-precision positioning,” said U-Blox CEO Stephan Zizala. “We will continue to drive innovation to deliver advanced navigation that is precise, reliable, easy to use and highly valued by our customers.”

Headquartered in Thalwil, Switzerland, U-Blox (www.u-blox.com) employs 1400 people.