Spatial

Spatial is a miniature GNSS-aided INS that provides accurate position, velocity, acceleration, and orientation under the most demanding conditions.

Roll & Pitch
0.1 °
Heading (GNSS)
0.2 °
Bias Instability
3 °/hr
Position Accuracy
20 mm
Spatial | Miniature GNSS

Spatial combines temperature calibrated accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, and a pressure sensor with an advanced GNSS receiver. These are coupled in an AI-based fusion algorithm to deliver the most reliable and accurate navigation data in its class. Spatial is available in both OEM and rugged packages. Spatial is compatible with our post-processing kinematic (PPK) software Kinematica.

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Features

AI | GNSS

AI Navigation Algorithm

Spatial features Advanced Navigation’s revolutionary AI neural network sensor fusion algorithm. This provides an accuracy of up to 10 times that of a traditional Kalman filter. It was designed for control applications and has a high level of health monitoring and instability prevention to ensure stable and reliable data.
High Performance

High Performance MEMS

Spatial contains high performance MEMS sensors that are put through Advanced Navigation's intensive 8 hour temperature calibration process. This provides the highest accuracy possible from this sensor class and outputs consistent accuracy over the full temperature range from -40°C to 85°C.

Trusted Reliability

Reliability

Spatial has been designed from the ground up for mission critical control applications where reliability is very important. It is built on top of a safety oriented real time operating system and all software is designed and tested to safety standards with fault tolerance in mind. The hardware is designed and manufactured to mil standards.

MEMS | Multi-Constellation

Multi Constellation RTK GNSS

Spatial's GNSS receiver supports GPS, GLONASS and BeiDou. The extra constellations provides higher availability of GNSS reception and better performance in difficult environments such as urban canyons. It supports RTK for real time 1cm position accuracy as well as PPK for post processed 1cm position accuracy.

High Sampling Rate

High Update Rate

Spatial's internal filter runs at 1000Hz and data can also be output at this rate over high speed RS232. This allows for control of dynamically unstable platforms. Spatial is also highly tolerant of dynamic movement and vibration with advanced filters designed for these applications.

Applications

Specifications

Navigation

Horizontal Position Accuracy
2.0 m
Vertical Position Accuracy
3.0 m
Horizontal Position Accuracy (with RTK)
0.02 m
Vertical Position Accuracy (with RTK)
0.03 m
Horizontal Position Accuracy (Kinematica Post Processing)
0.01 m
Vertical Position Accuracy (Kinematica Post Processing)
0.02 m
Velocity Accuracy
0.05 m/s
Roll & Pitch Accuracy
0.1 °
Heading Accuracy (Dynamic with GNSS)
0.2 °
Heading Accuracy (Magnetic Only)
0.8 °
Roll & Pitch Accuracy (Kinematica Post Processing)
0.04 °
Heading Accuracy (Kinematica Post Processing)
0.08 °
Heave Accuracy
5 % or 0.05 m (whichever is greater)
Orientation Range
Unlimited
Hot Start Time
500 ms
Internal Filter Rate
1000 Hz
Output Data Rate
Up to 1000 Hz
Latency
0.4 ms

Sensors

Accelerometers

Range
±2 g • ±4 g • ±16 g
Bias Instability
20 ug
Initial Bias
< 5 mg
Initial Scaling Error
< 0.06 %
Scale Factor Stability
< 0.06 %
Non-linearity
< 0.05 %
Cross-axis Alignment Error
< 0.05 °
Noise Density
100 ug/√Hz
Bandwidth
400 Hz

Gyroscopes

Range
±250 °/s • ±500 °/s • ±2000 °/s
Bias Instability
3 °/hr
Initial Bias
< 0.2 °/s
Initial Scaling Error
< 0.04 %
Scale Factor Stability
< 0.05 %
Non-linearity
< 0.05 %
Cross-axis Alignment Error
< 0.05 °
Noise Density
0.004 °/s/√Hz
Bandwidth
400 Hz

Magnetometers

Range
±2 G • ±4 G • ±8 G
Initial Scaling Error
< 0.07 %
Scale Factor Stability
< 0.09 %
Non-linearity
< 0.08 %
Cross-axis Alignment Error
< 0.05 °
Noise Density
210 uG/√Hz
Bandwidth
110 Hz

GNSS

Model
u-blox M8P
Supported Navigation Systems
GPS L1 • GLONASS L1 • BeiDou L1
Update Rate
10 Hz
Cold Start Sensitivity
-148 dBm
Tracking Sensitivity
-160 dBm
Hot Start First Fix
1 s
Cold Start First Fix
26 s
Horizontal Position Accuracy
2.5 m
Horizontal Position Accuracy (with L1 RTK)
0.02 m
Velocity Accuracy
0.05 m/s
Timing Accuracy
30 ns
Acceleration Limit
4 g

Communication

Interface
RS232
Speed
4800 to 2M baud
Protocol
AN Packet Protocol or NMEA
Peripheral Interface
2x GPIO and Auxiliary RS232
GPIO Level
5 V or RS232
GPIO Functions
1PPS • Odometer • Stationary • Air Data Input • NMEA input/output • Novatel GNSS input • Trimble GNSS input • AN Packet Protocol input/output • Packet Trigger Input • Event Input

Hardware

Operating Voltage
5 to 36 V
Input Protection
±60 V
Power Consumption (Typical)
0.5 W
Hot Start Battery Capacity
> 48 hrs
Hot Start Battery Charge Time
30 mins
Hot Start Battery Endurance
> 10 years
Operating Temperature
-40 °C to 85 °C
Environmental Protection
IP67 • MIL-STD-810G
MTBF
310,000 hrs
Shock Limit
2000 g
Dimensions (excluding tabs)
30 x 30 x 24 mm
Dimensions (including tabs)
30 x 40.6 x 24 mm
Weight (Rugged)
37 grams
Weight (OEM)
5 grams

Documentation

Datasheet
28 Sep 2021 - V3.1
Reference Manual (PDF)
16 Jan 2024 - V4.11
Performance Evaluation
19 Nov 2012 - V1.1
3D Model
25 Feb 2015 - V3.0

Software

Spatial Manager

Spatial Manager is the software provided for testing, configuration and logging with Spatial. Java 11 is required to run Spatial Manager v7.0 and later. Adoptium JRE 11 is the recommended Java installer. Please see the reference manual for more information.

10 Nov 2023 – V7.2

Spatial Firmware

Firmware for all Spatial hardware versions. This can be loaded onto Spatial using the Spatial Manager software. The change log can be found in the Spatial reference manual.

19 Jan 2024 – V6.51

Spatial SDK

The Spatial SDK provides example source code for interfacing with Spatial through the AN Packet Protocol. The languages provided are C/C++, Java, and .Net C#.

09 Jan 2023 – V7.0

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