IMU & AHRS

Advanced Navigation’s newly launched Certus Mini series offers great value to the mining industry.

Spanish company PAL Robotics partners with Advanced Navigation to make their bipedal humanoid robots, TALOS and Kangaroo, capable of balancing, walking on uneven terrain and jumping.

The measurement of motion, specifically, acceleration, rotation and velocity, is essential to understanding the orientation of an object. It is also broadly applicable to many applications; for example, production line machines, robotic devices, vehicles, autonomous systems, gimbals, machine tools, and even robotic prosthetics.

The limitation of most navigation systems is the need for references to confirm actual position with estimated position, be it a map, a star, a satellite constellation, or a landmark. When a reference is not available, we require a different means of maintaining navigation and guidance. Using inertia as a means of detecting and measuring changes in motion has been a popular method of unaided navigation.

Global, 2022 – Advanced Navigation‘s inertial navigation systems will be used in the upgrade of Sweden’s fleet of CV90 tracked vehicles.

Dead-reckoning is a term coined in the 1600s by ship navigators to estimate course and distance when no landmarks or stars could be seen. Using velocity, a compass and the directional effects of current and wind, ship navigators could plot or estimate a course with a reasonable degree of accuracy for the time, especially over short distances.

Advanced Navigation’s Orientus AHRS helped IMHC’s robotic exoskeleton for more accurate roll, pitch, and yaw data in real-time.

Advanced Navigation is pleased to introduce Motus 2, the second generation of their ultra-high performance MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).