As a leading designer and manufacturer of positioning, navigation and motion tracking systems for the maritime industry, Inertial Labs ensures that its high-performance inertial sensing technologies have extremely low size, weight and power SWaP footprints. Find out more >>
The company’s wave sensors and motion reference units (MRU) are ideally suited for use in a range of surface and subsea applications, including:
- Vessel navigation, as the MRUs can provide impressively accurate position and velocity data.
- Hydrographic and bathymetric survey, performing particularly well in conjunction with other sensors such as single- and multi-beam echosounders.
- Buoys, ROVs, and AUVs, since Inertial Labs’ technologies can be built in rugged and durable waterproof and subsea-rated housings.
- Platform Stabilization, providing precision compensation for heave, surge, and sway vessel motion.
- Oceanography, in particular the wave sensors, which can record a range of statistics for real-time RF data transmission.
In the last few months alone, Inertial Labs has released the KERNEL-201, a miniature, low-SWaP MEMS sensor-based inertial measurement unit (IMU) for stabilization and navigation in systems.
Another recent achievement for the company is the launch of their GPS-aided inertial navigation system, which was designed using tactical-grade FOG technology, resulting in an incredibly impressive drift of only five nautical miles per hour when the system is without GNSS signal.
While not referenced among their most recent releases and achievements, Inertial Labs’ Wave Sensors are some of the best on the market, with the ability to be interfaced with external GNSS receivers, gyro compasses, and Doppler Velocity Logs (DVL).
These Wave Sensors are available in two variants to suit different accuracy and output requirements, the WS-E and the WS-PD, the latter of which is also available in a rugged subsea enclosure rated for depths down to 200 metres, as well as having added GNSS heading and DGPS/RTK positioning capabilities.
Inertial Labs’ MRUs form an even larger family, with six variants for a range of pitch & roll, heading, position & velocity, and heave/surge/sway requirements. The MEMS-based technology combines three-axis solid state accelerometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes and barometric sensors.
This allows the user to provide a variety of useful outputs for marine applications both above and below the waterline, since they can be provided in IP67-rated or underwater 200 metre-rated enclosures. Data can also be output in standard industry formats including Kongsberg/Seatex, Teledyne, and SMC.
These innovative technologies are perfect for a broad range of applications, with the company’s expert team of engineers able to advise on the best models for any client’s specific applications, providing full integration support.
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