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The Unmanned Aircraft navigation unit
- UAV navigation block diagram
- INS from Astroplanes
- micro-INS from Athena Controls
- IMS from Cloud Cap Tech
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Unmanned Aircraft navigation, flight control and communications systems
Example of the circuitry in an Inertial Measurement Unit.
IMS from http://openuav.astroplanes.com/
Complete Inertial Measurement System - 6 degrees of freedom, with built in GPS. OpenUAV's INS, developed by Astroplanes, utilizes the single IC triple axis accelerometer from Freescale MMA7260Q, 2 dual axis IDG300 MEMs gyroscope, 20 channel SiRF III GPS and a dual axis Honeywell magnetometer.
Roll, Pitch, and Yaw gyro sensors, 3 tilt axis, 1Hz high sensitivity GPS, and two magnetic field readings (accelerometer reading can be used to offset tilt error). Unprecidented power in a single small footprint, low cost solution.
Advanced firmware allows individual channels to be turned on/off, select different sensitivities on the accelerometers, and output type between either binary / ASCII formats.
This INS comes fully assembled and tested. All sensors are soldered in place, JTAG programmers and free software development IDE's are available for download.
$365 USD about: INS, 6 DOF & 20 channel GPS
http://www.athenati.com/products_services/commercial_products/micro_ins/microinsexperimental.pdf
Crista Inertial measurement Unit (IMU) from www.CloudCapTech.com
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