As an innovative developer of robust, ultra-low-SWaP fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) technologies, MostaTech delivers advanced navigation, platform stabilization, and control capabilities for marine vessels and underwater vehicles.
The company has worked with OST over the course of 2024 to showcase their impressive range of products, demonstrating their detailed and specific expertise in high-precision motion and orientation measurement, particularly in challenging ocean environments.
The company’s ultra-miniature single-axis fiber optic gyroscopes provide high-performance angular rate measurement in an extremely compact and lightweight package. The thumb-sized FOG sensors feature enhanced shock and vibration resistance and boast a 15-year lifetime, thanks to their robust aluminium alloy or μ-metal housings.
Ideal for small and space-constrained marine vessels and submersibles, the product range includes analog and digital output options.
MostaTech’s three-axis gyroscopes, which the company were focusing on at 2024’s Oceanology International trade show, deliver high-accuracy angular rate outputs on three axes, and feature a fully-integrated three-channel ADC board with serial RS422 output.
The company also produces FOG-based inertial measurement units (IMUs) which combine three axes of MostaTech’s smallest fiber optic gyroscopes with three axes of MEMS accelerometers, incorporating a fully-integrated six-channel ADC board with serial RS422 output.
With low power consumption and a compact footprint, they are ideal for marine vessels, USVs and ROVs, as well as for integration into higher order systems such as inertial navigation systems (INS).
MostaTech’s state-of-the-art gyros and IMUs are based on 40-micron polarization-maintaining fibers and a unique proprietary spliceless technology that fabricates the entire fiber optic assembly from a single fiber length, ensuring zero excess optical loss and making their products ideal for marine and maritime applications.