AspenNav provides a software-defined, sensor‑agnostic navigation platform that delivers reliable positioning in GNSS‑degraded or denied environments.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Conventional navigation systems rely on tightly coupled hardware and GNSS signals, making them vulnerable to outages, interference, and the need for extensive in‑house expertise to adapt to diverse sensor suites. This results in costly, time‑consuming integration and limited resilience in GNSS‑degraded or denied environments.
Solution
AspenNav offers a software‑defined, sensor‑agnostic navigation platform that separates navigation intelligence from specific hardware. The platform ingests data from any combination of inertial, visual, lidar, radar, or other sensors and applies advanced data‑fusion and estimation algorithms to deliver reliable positioning when GNSS is unavailable or compromised. Because the solution is delivered as software, it can be integrated in days rather than months, requires no specialized navigation team, and stays up‑to‑date through regular software updates. This approach provides consistent performance across autonomous vehicles, aerial, ground, maritime, and space platforms while reducing development cost and future‑proofing the system against new sensor technologies.
Target Audience
Primary customers are engineering teams developing autonomous, remotely operated, or safety‑critical platforms—including aerial, ground, maritime, defense, space, and industrial robotics—who need robust positioning without extensive navigation expertise.
Features
- Sensor‑agnostic architecture that supports any existing inertial, visual, lidar, radar, or custom sensor suite
- Advanced multi‑sensor data fusion and modern estimation techniques for high‑accuracy positioning in GNSS‑degraded or denied conditions
- Software‑only deployment enabling integration within days and eliminating hardware redesigns
- Continuous improvement via over‑the‑air software updates, keeping the navigation stack state‑of‑the‑art
- Modular, scalable design that can be tailored to autonomous vehicles, drones, maritime vessels, spacecraft, and industrial robotics
- Built‑in resilience mechanisms to handle sensor failures, signal interference, and dynamic operational constraints