Micro-Inertial has announced the development of IMU and motion sensing systems that the company says deliver new levels of performance and reliability with broad temperature stability, high vibration immunity, scale factor, and bias drift. According to Micro-Inertial, the technology offers significantly improved cost, reliability, power, and operating performance characteristics over existing MEMS based IMU systems, particularly in applications where temperature and vibration stability, small form-factor, and light weight are important.
IMU systems are suited to applications in autonomous vehicle navigation, unmanned land and ocean systems, mobile robotics, as well as civil and military aerospace. In addition, Micro-Inertial envisions motion-sensing applications as broadly ranging as airborne mapping, antenna and UAV stabilization, micro-pointing laser and telescope control, and guided downhole drilling.
According to Dr. Navid Yazdi, Micro-Inertial's CTO, the systems "leverage our core MEMS and micro-packaging technology expertise to deliver precision motion sensing capabilities in rugged environments that were not achievable before. We are excited at the prospect of working with the great engineering teams out there on these challenging use cases."
Micro-Inertial is exhibiting at the ADAS 2019 Sensors conference (March 20-21 in Detroit, Michigan), focused on automotive sensing and navigation applications including next-generation driver-assistance systems (ADAS), GPS-obstructed and dead-reckoning navigation, AHRS and INS systems, and telematics.
Estimated at a $32 billion market in 2018 and expected to reach $60 billion in 2025, ADAS is key to the adoption of autonomous vehicles in the marketplace. ADAS provides technology for safer and better driving, including collision and pedestrian avoidance, lane departure warnings, rain detection, sign recognition, automatic parking, driverless systems, and more.
Micro-Inertial, Inc. (http://www.micro-inertial.com) develops rugged MEMS motion sensors, gyroscopes, and inertial measurement units (IMUs) that deliver reliable performance and precision sensing over a wide temperature range and in high vibration environments. Micro-Inertial's patented technology is the result of ten years of R&D with partial support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Air Force Research Laboratory (ARFL), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The company delivers motion-sensing technologies that meet the demanding requirements of a broad range of commercial applications.
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