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  • Fully Autonomous Airfield Maintenance Equipement - Northstar Robotics partnered with Airport Technologies Inc (ATI) and the Winnipeg Airports Authority (WAA) to commercialize autonomous airfield maintance equipment based on ATI's SnowMauler snowplow.  The Autonomous sweeper was in operation on a non-active taxiway and apron for two winters starting in 2018

Autonomous Airport Runway Sweeper

A Fully autonomous sweeper and tow behind broom cabable of operating on active runways.  System can be run in a single autonomous mode or in a lead follow / platoon configuration. System is equiped with an application specific perception stack that can detect objects in a blizzard 

Autonomous Fairway Mower

A fully autonomous golf course fairway mower that can mow fairways while golfers play through.  System is equiped with a LIDAR and 3D camera system capable of detecting stationary and moving objects

Autonomous Tractor

A fully autonomous tractor prototype that is equiped with a visual navigation system that can naviage row crops with out damaging the crop. 

OpenSteer Platform

Northstar Robotics Developed an off highway autonomous vehicle platform that could be retrofitted on existing vehicles or integrated into new OEM platforms.  The platform is based on the QNX operating system and been proven in the field running on small agricultural machines to large off highway snow removal equipment.  The platform was offcially released in spring 2020