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ANELLO Photonics secures funding for inertial navigation in GPS-denied environments
- Silicon photonics specialist ANELLO Photonics has completed its Series B funding round for its SiPhOG inertial navigation system, designed for compact, GPS-denied environments. The technology can operate across land, sea and air with position accuracy of around 10 centimetres. ANELLO secured investments from Lockheed Martin, Catapult Ventures, One Madison Group, New Legacy, Build Collective, Trousdale Ventures, In-Q-Tel, K2 Access Fund, Purdue Strategic Ventures, Santuri Ventures, Handshake Ventures, Irongate Capital and Mana Ventures.
- The Santa Clara, California company was founded in 2018, and its SiPhOG - Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope - is based on integrated photonic system-on-chip (SoC) technology. The company has more than 28 patents and 44 more pending, and its technologies also include a sensor-fusion engine using artificial intelligence.
- SiPhOG is used with the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and is suitable for autonomous vehicles, drones and mobile robots. It weighs 20 grams, measures 5.5cm by 2.4cm and uses a 3.3-volt power supply.
- VC investors have reportedly said car makers are installing six separate lidar systems on a vehicle, at $10,000 apiece. ANELLO's optical technology offers navigation across long distances and is scalable, according to the company. SiPhOG is built to work across land, air and sea. New applications include orchards and indoor robots working in construction.
- As well as inertial navigation, the company is developing 3D sensing and ranging, velocimetry and biomedical sensing applications for SiPhOG.
- The device is typically integrated with accelerometers, magnetometers, and triple-redundancy MEMS gyroscopes.
- Co-founder and CEO Dr Mario Paniccia said: "We have self-alignment correction, and within 15 minutes, you can have GPS-denied navigation capability."
- "Every week, there’s an article about a commercial flight or defense-related mission getting GPS jammed, like thousands of flights to and from Europe affected by suspected Russian jamming," said investor Tony Fadell. ANELLO has worked with the US Department of Defense on optimising its algorithms against jamming or spoofing.
- The post ANELLO Photonics secures funding for inertial navigation in GPS-denied environments appeared first on The Robot Report.
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