The Blue Innovation team is thrilled to welcome our mates from Australia: Advance Navigation. Advance Navigation develops industry-leading navigation systems and robotics technologies for sea, land, air, and space applications. Their mission is to drive the autonomy revolution with AI-powered systems delivering unparalleled capabilities and performance.

Sea

The drone revolution is happening - in the deep! Hydrus is Advance Navigation’s subsea fully autonomous drone for surveying, tracking, retrieval, and photography. Hydrus condenses its advanced features into one of the smallest, and most affordable autonomous underwater vehicles on the market. Its fully encapsulated polymer construction provides best-in-class reliability with minimal maintenance. It is certified flight safe to standard UN38.3 and can be shipped by air or carry-on baggage.

Land

Whether you are developing autonomous farming robots or precision farming solutions, Advanced Navigation has got you covered. With a full range of GPS-aided Inertial Navigation Systems, they can answer every need from affordability to ultra-high accuracy, providing accurate position, velocity, acceleration, and orientation.

Advanced Navigation’s unique AI-based algorithm offers high performance and reliability even where GPS signal is degraded such as mountainous terrain, and under tree canopies. Available in both OEM and rugged versions, their systems are made to military specifications and IP67 rated to sustain the most demanding conditions. Designed to be easily integrated, they come standard with pre-configured vehicle profiles, multiple protocols and interfaces, and wide input voltage.

Air

Introducing Ground Control. Easily monitor the operations of your drone fleet with a user-friendly dashboard. Securely connect your drone & VTOL fleet to the cloud over 4G/5G and get access from any internet-connected device. This system is being used in Australia to manage drones to keep beaches safer. Little Ripper uses CGC to monitor and control over 100 drones simultaneously.

“Cloud Ground Control has allowed us to gain better insights of what is happening on our beaches so our teams can make more informed decisions in emergencies.” Jason Young / CEO, Ripper Corporation

Space

“The team is absolutely thrilled to see years of research in development progress into successful technology. We look forward to being the first Australian company to reach the Moon in early 2023 and 2024, this will be a huge milestone for us,” said Xavier Orr, CEO and co-founder at Advanced Navigation. 

“Inertial and robust reference based navigation is a critical capability in space missions, where terrestrial navigation satellite systems, such as GPS are non-existent. Our lightweight technology is estimated to deliver $85 million in value for lunar missions, helping to deliver heavier payloads to further advance research, exploration and commercial developments on the Moon.”