NASA’s Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its own location on Mars without waiting for instructions from Earth, a capability the space agency formally announced on February 18, 2026. The system, ...

Mars Global Localization (MGL), a tech similar to GPS on Earth, lets Perseverance nail down its coordinates to about 10 inches.

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one ...

Project: Autonomous Localization for GPS-denied Aerial Tracking and Reconnaissance (ALLIGATR) Team Abstract: ALLIGATR is an unmanned aerial system designed for navigating and surveying ground ...

No audio available for this content. High-precision GPS, INS and computer vision come together in a single package called VINS to be demonstrated at the Auto.ai show in Berlin on Sept. 25-27.

If you’ve ever tried to use GPS indoors, you know that the signals aren’t easy to acquire in any sort of structure. Now imagine trying to get a satellite fix underwater. Researchers at MIT have a new ...

Tracking drones or whales under the ocean is very difficult because GPS signals break down rapidly in seawater. Typically tracking objects underwater is done using acoustic signaling, but tracking ...