New Sensors Developed by LORD for Unmanned and Autonomous Vehicles
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LORD Sensing MicroStrain is expanding its portfolio of sensors for unmanned and autonomous vehicles for air, land, and sea with its new 3DM-GX5 family of inertial sensors.
The GX5-45 will feature low-noise gyros, a new accelerometer, a multi-constellation GNSS receiver, and M7 and M4 dual Cortex processors running a new Auto-Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter.
“Customers can stay within the LORD family and dial into their needs. LORD continues to develop its family of products using the same backbone and backwards compatibility of previous generations,” says Andy Winzenz, commercial director.
In October, the latest generation of this sensor, GX5-45 GNSS/INS, was introduced. This sensor can measure altitude, position, and velocity with different applications like antenna pointing, platform stabilization, flight tracking, navigation and regime monitoring.
“Our inertial sensor provides automatic compensation for noise and drift, allowing a greater degree of precision,” says Winzenz.
Since the GX4 line, some of the new features are improved performance through in-situ heading calibration. The new sensor is completely calibrated, temperature-compensated, and mathematically aligned to an orthogonal coordinate system.
“The GX5’s footprint is the same as its predecessor at approximately 44 mm x 36 mm x 11 mm. and it weighs less than 20 grams,” says Winzenz. “That makes it the smallest, lightest, and highest-performing inertial sensor in its class, which allows the payload to be used for more important things such as increased fuel range, heavier camera for better images, and faster servos for antenna pointing.”
The sensors have been adapted for real life situations, which will allow them to tolerate differences in temperature and shock. It has been set so that users can add it into their existing applications with no problem. The GX5 shares the same mounting, connector, software, and reliability as LORD’s previous inertial line.
