Case Study: AMZ Keeps Its Driverless Race Car on Course with Advanced Navigation's Spatial Dual

AMZ’s Driverless Race Car Takes the Lead With Advanced Navigation’s Spatial Dual

AMZ, the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich, is a student-run team from ETH Zurich that develops autonomous racing cars for Formula Student competitions. To keep its high-speed driverless car on course, AMZ needed a GNSS/INS solution from Advanced Navigation that could deliver highly accurate heading, position, and motion data even at race speed.

Advanced Navigation provided the Spatial Dual, a ruggedized GNSS-aided inertial navigation system with dual antennas and low-noise IMU sensors. The solution gave AMZ extremely accurate heading at standstill, robust velocity estimates during drifting and other non-standard maneuvers, and centimeter-level positioning to support its SLAM and cone-detection systems, helping the team keep the car within track boundaries.

AMZ

Miguel de la Iglesia Valls

Chief Technical Officer