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Port Vehicle Navigation
Navtech's radar sensor is ideal for outdoor vehicle guidance. In addition to the navigation function, the radar can also be used for obstacle detection. Safety of AGVs and those working around them is an important consideration. If the sensor is placed at a suitable location on the vehicle it can be used to perform both navigation and obstacle detection functions simultaneously.
Vehicle Obstacle Detection
A radar sensor can provide a useful safety sensor for operation at night, in bad weather or as an aid to the driver on manually operated vehicles. Autonomously guided vehicles (AGVs) are increasingly being investigated for use in mines, ports and other unstructured environments.
Quay Crane Safety Systems
Navtech's radar is mounted on the underside of the crane boom and will detect any obstacles that appear in the path of the crane as it travels along the quay. The range measurement can be used to warn and then stop the crane before it collides with the ship's antennae. Navtech's radar will give complete coverage, detecting even the smallest whip antenna in the path of the boom.
Train/Vehicle Collision Avoidance
The Navtech Radar sensor is designed to measure the range and bearing to objects in its line of sight with high sensitivity. If the radar is placed at a suitable point on a vehicle it can be used to detect obstacles, such as people, rocks or other vehicles that may block it's path.
Helicopter Landing Aid
Due to the Navtech Radar signal being largely unaffected by atmospheric conditions, the radar can be used to assist a helicopter pilot in the final phases of landing in marginal or near visibility areas. The radar signal is able to perform where instrument landing systems, and other sophisticated airborne equipments are unavailable to.
Traffic Monitoring
Navtech Radar can be deployed for wide area detection across the entire width of motorway lanes. A single sensor can scan hundreds of metres of road surface, both with and against the traffic flow, to identify incidents on a lane by lane basis with high accuracy. Additionally single lanes or hard shoulders may be singled out to alert operators to incidents whilst ignoring the normal flow on adjacent lanes.
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