GPS World, September 2016
SURVEY MAPPING LAUNCHPAD INERTIAL NAVIGATION HIGH ACCURACY INTELLIGENT PERFORMANCE WITH SENSOR FUSION The GEO FOG 3D inertial navigation system INS uses sensor fusion to deliver reliable high accuracy navigation and control to a wide variety of unmanned autonomous and manned aerial ground marine and subsurface marine applications and platforms Other applications include navigation and control positioning and imaging georeferencing land surveying robotics underground navigation stabilization and orientation Designed for demanding navigation and control applications the GEO FOG 3D has performance monitoring and instability protections to ensure stable and reliable data Using an innovative artificial intelligence algorithm its intelligent high performance filter is capable of extracting significantly more information from the 1750 IMU core processor than a typical Kalman filter The GEO FOG 3D is built upon the high performance fiber optic gyro FOG based 1750 inertial measurement unit IMU It contains three DSP 1750 fiber optic gyros integrated with three very low noise microelectro mechanical systems MEMS accelerometers as well as a pressure sensor a three axis magnetometer and a triple frequency GNSS receiver The triple frequency receiver provides 8 millimeters of positioning accuracy and supports all GNSS systems It also offers data rates up to 1000 Hz data can be output over a high speed RS 422 interface or optional RS 232 interface The rugged GEO FOG 3D INS is protected from reverse polarity overvoltage surges static and short circuits on all external surfaces KVH www kvh com unmanned KEY FEATURES Core processor KVH 1750 IMU 6 degrees of freedom DoF IMU consisting of integrated FOGs and accelerometers Triple frequency Trimble GNSS receiver Sensor fusion algorithm delivers accurate reliable data for navigation orientation and control North seeking gyrocompass Attitude and Heading Reference System AHRS SEPTEMBER 2016 WWW GPSWORLD COM GPS WORLD 23
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