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  • 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 supports education with inertial navigation technology

    SBG Systems supports education with inertial navigation technology

    The Ellipse-N INS/GNSS (Photo: SBG Systems)
    The Ellipse-N INS/GNSS (Photo: SBG Systems)

    SBG Systems has built a program designed to sponsor student teams participating in competitions, as well as offer discounts for universities and research centers on inertial sensors and post-processing software.

    Through the program, the company sponsors students participating in competitions in various fields, such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, UAV, rockets, unmanned and solar boats and more. This includes support during the competition, as well as during the installation of SBG’s latest inertial navigation systems in the teams’ vehicle prototype, the company said.

    SBG’s Ellipse series is also eligible through its education program. The series is composed of SBG’s miniature inertial measurement units, attitude and heading reference systems and inertial navigation systems. In addition, the entire product line has been renewed. The new Ellipse INS/GNSS embeds a quad constellation, dual frequency, and dual Antenna RTK GNSS receiver to bring centimetric position and higher accuracy orientation in the smallest package, SBG added.

    In addition to being compatible with CAN and ROS, the Ellipse Series’ sensors are compatible with SBG’s Qinertia Post-Processing Software, the SBG Systems’ in-house INS/GNSS post-processing software. Qinertia allows users to replay, analyze, improve their trajectories and access RTK corrections worldwide to bring their project to the centimetric accuracy.

    SBG Systems designs and manufactures MEMS-based inertial motion sensing solutions. According to SBG, its products are ideal solutions for industrial and research projects such as unmanned vehicle control, antenna tracking, camera stabilization and surveying applications.