Sensor fits in military guidance, navigation applications
ProductSeptember 08, 2015
The STIM300 from Sensonor is a small (35 cubic centimeters), tactical grade, low-weight inertial measurement unit (IMU) that can offer users another option to fiber-optic gyro systems. The non-GPS-aided IMU contains three MEMS gyros, three high-stability accelerometers, and three inclinome...
The STIM300 from Sensonor is a small (35 cubic centimeters), tactical grade, low-weight inertial measurement unit (IMU) that can offer users another option to fiber-optic gyro systems. The non-GPS-aided IMU contains three MEMS gyros, three high-stability accelerometers, and three inclinometers. The IMU is aimed at use in stabilization, guidance, and navigation applications in the industrial, aerospace, and defense markets and can be used as part of inertial navigation systems in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), automatic guided vehicles (AGVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs).
The ITAR-free STIM300 can also be employed in camera-turret stabilization or used in various handheld devices that require a small IMU to secure operations during GPS outage. The solid-state sensor is unreactive to magnetic fields, offers low gyro bias instability and noise, and runs off a single 5-V supply and communicates through a single RS422 interface.
Advanced users may configure their own output format, sampling rate, and filter settings by placing the sensor in "service mode," in which all the configuration parameters can be intermediately or permanently changed by overwriting the current settings in the flash memory.
