Types of Navigation Systems
- Automotive navigation system
- Marine navigation system
- Global Positioning System, a group of satellites and computers that can provide information on any person, vessel, or vehicle's location via a GPS receiver
- GPS navigation device, a device that can receive GPS signals for the purpose of determining the device's location and possibly to suggest or give directions
- Surgical navigation system, a system which determines the position of surgical instruments in relation to patient images such as CT or MRI scans.
- Inertial guidance system, a system which continuously determines the position, orientation, and velocity (direction and speed of movement) of a moving object without the need for external reference
- Robotic mapping, the methods and equipment by which an autonomous robot is be able to construct (or use) a map or floor plan and to localize itself within it
- Web navigation
- XNAV for Deep Space
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