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  • SBG Systems introduces GNSS-aided INS

    SBG Systems introduces GNSS-aided INS

    Image: SBG Systems
    Image: SBG Systems

    SBG Systems has released Quanta Plus, a GNSS-aided inertial navigation system (INS). Quanta Plus is a small, lightweight product, which can be easily integrated into survey systems with lidar or other third-party sensors.

    The device combines a micro-electromechanical (MEMS) inertial measurement unit (IMU) with a resilient GNSS receiver to get reliable position and attitude, providing real-time kinematic (RTK) fixes.

    Quanta Plus includes motion profiles, which enable users to optimize the sensor parameters to suit different use cases. The built-in precise time protocol server ensures sub-microsecond synchronization with external devices such as lidar. The device also has a built-in datalogger, Ethernet interface for easy integration, and a web configuration interface for simple setup and control.

    The INS can be integrated with Qinertia, SBG System’s post-processing software. Qinertia improves the performance of acquired data during a mission using reliable RTK corrections from a wide range of continuously operating reference station networks, or by importing base-station data during the process.

    Quanta Plus also improves the accuracy of the position and attitude using forward and backward processing and by integrating a tight coupling between GNSS and IMU data.

    Quanta Plus is suitable for survey professionals or a navigation-dependent company seeking a robust navigation device. Specific solutions are available for integrators and OEMs who want to use Qinertia as a component in their application-specific data-processing solutions.

  • SBG Systems provides major firmware update for its INS

    SBG Systems provides major firmware update for its INS

    Image: SBG Systems
    Image: SBG Systems

    SBG Systems has released a major firmware update for all its high-performance inertial navigation systems (INS), including its Ekinox, Apogee, Navsight and Quanta brand sensors.

    Developed in collaboration with customers, firmware 4.0 provides new features and is designed to make integration easier for system designers. It aims to provide improvements in these areas:

    System accuracy and robustness

    • Enhanced heading in a single antenna allows for easier UAV survey operations.
    • Improved GNSS antenna auto lever arm calibration provides a faster and easier system setup.

    Easier system integration

    • New PTP and NTP features for time synchronization eliminate the need and cost of an external timing module.
    • An integrated NTRIP client eases access to NRTK/VRS correction services.
    • A logged RTCM raw stream eases post-processing in SBG Systems’ post-processing software Qinertia using the user’s NRTK/VRS data.
    • A new Access Rights Management System sets up specific user roles.
    • Two serial outputs have been added on Navsight and Quanta for advanced survey setups.
    • REST API has been introduced for power users and integrators.

    Learn more and download the firmware 4.0 on the SBG Systems website.

  • SBG Systems debuts Quanta UAV series at Xponential 2019

    SBG Systems Chief Technology Officer Alexis Guinamard gives GPS World an overview of the company’s Quanta UAV series, which launched at Xponential 2019 in Chicago.