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iSULONA: Navigation and Guidance Systems for Support & Logistics Vehicles (no export restrictions)

Low Weight Small Size MEMS Based Dead Reckoning System

iSULONA is a leading solution of INS/GNSS systems, with integrated high performance MEMS IMU  with excellent SWAP. iMAR provides a large amount of versions of iSULONA, depending on the customer's requirements regarding accuracy, vibration and shock hardening and cost.

Dead Reckoning is the way to make GNSS more accurate and reliable when tracking or steering vehicles or when surveying their trajectories, e.g. in defense applications. iSULONA is a hybrid INS/GNSS system, complemented by vehicle motion sensor input. It provides reliable information of position and heading also during GNSS outages in GNSS denied environment.

Furthermore, a specific algorithm designed for land vehicle applications allows an excellend position accuracy in a GNSS denied environment even if no wheel sensor (VMS) is installed. 

For over 30 years, we have been experts in custom, COTS and MOTS inertial measurement systems.

Features

  • Used to provide orientation & position of support, supply and logistics vehicles
  • Robust, compact, light, minimum SWAP
  • robust MEMS gyro technology
  • Data output rate up to 500 Hz (each data log separately adjustable)
  • Interfaces: UART RS232 & RS422 / CAN / Ethernet / USB for real-time data output and
    for DGPS correction input; NMEA 0183 / iXCOM
  • Integrated all-frequencies / all-constellations GPS+GALILEO+GLONASS+Beidou + SBAS + QZSS  GNSS engine, Inteface to military GNSS receivers like ERGR, NavHub, TopStar / SAASM, M-Code
  • Dual-antenna GNSS true heading capability integrated (-D)
  • integrated all-frequencies / all-constellations GNSS receiver
  • designed to work also in GNSS denied environment, under spoofing and jamming conditions
  • Interface to vehicle motion sensor (VMS) for full dead reckoning support; the integrated algorithm supports operation on land vehicles with and without vehicle motion sensor, as well as naval applications, airborne applications and missile applications. 
  • Powefull software iXCOM-CMD for operation and configuration (under MS Windows, Linux and MacOS) -- see iXCOM-CMD Software
  • Inertial System and Sensor Performance:  see datasheets
  • Integrated 42+ state sensor data fusion by advanced extended Kalman filtering
  • Internally up to 128 GByte non-volatile memory for data storage ("black-box")
  • Connectors: MIL-C-38999 III type and TNC / M12
  • Power Supply: 10...34 V DC, 10 W. iSULONA provides two independent and isolated inputs to allow the supply from two different power sources - the iSULONAS always takes the energy from those supply with the highest voltage. The inputs are protecxted against reverse voltage and over-voltage.
  • Weight: approx. 900 grams, small SWaP
  • EMI-EMC protection designed to meet MIL-STD-704F / MIL-STD-461G / MIL-STD-810G; designed partially to meet DO160G
  • Modular System architecture: also customized applications can be integrated by iMAR easily (please contact our sales for details). So the iSULONA can provide arbitrary data and command protocols according to customer requirement, e.g. to substitute other navigation systems by iSULONA (e.g. for Form-Fit-Function replacements)
  • used in the German Army and other Armed Forces
  • iSULONA is neither ITAR nor export controlled.

Note:

Following our proven design philosophy and technical code of conduct for our products and solutions, only the physics determines the behavior of iMAR‘s measurement systems. Our real-time output of our systems and solutions is achieved through the intelligent signal processing invented by our experienced engineers, not by AI (artificial intelligence).
Experienced customers do not entrust the success of critical or general missions to the heuristic decisions of any AI, but rather experience the highest reliability, accuracy and availability of iMAR solutions in their daily use, based on our mathematically and physically precise and traceable results.

Several classes of iSULONA are available (all with dual- and single-antenna GNSS available):

  Product Version   Description
  iSULONA/TLD-DA   Version with Economic Performance
  iSULONA/TLE-SP1-DA   Version with Standard Performance 
  iSULONA/TLE-LN1-DA   Version with Low Noise Performance
  iSULONA/TLE-ULN1-DA   Version with Ultra Low Noise Performance
  iSULONA/TLN-1-DA   Version for strong vibration environment

  iSULONA/TLN-2-DA

  Version for strong vibration environment,
  with advanced accelerometers

  iSULONA-IV-DA

  Series of devices with commercial grade GNSS RTK
  receiver, lower amount of interfaces, also with single
  and dual antena setup available

 

 

Further information

iSULONA/TLD datasheet (performance grade GNSS RTK receiver, standard inertial sensors, small enclosure)
iSULONA/TLE-SP1 datasheet (performance grade GNSS RTK receiver, moderate vibration hardened inertial sensors, small enclosure)
iSULONA/TLE-LN1 datasheet (performance grade GNSS RTK receiver, moderate vibration hardened low noise inertial sensors, small enclosure)
iSULONA/TLE-ULN1 datasheet (performance grade GNSS RTK receiver, moderate vibration hardened ultra low noise inertial sensors, small enclosure)
iSULONA/TLN-1 datasheet (performance grade GNSS RTK receiver, strong vibration hardened inertial sensors, mid-size enclosure)
iSULONA/TLN-2 "advanced" datasheet (performance grade GNSS RTK receiver, strong vibration hardened inertial sensors, very low accelerometer bias, mid-size enclosure)
iSULONA-IV-A datasheet (commercial grade GNSS RTK receiver, standard inertial sensors, ultra small enclosure; less communication interfaces than iSULONA/TLx)
iSULONA-IV-A datasheet (commercial grade GNSS RTK receiver, standard inertial sensors, small enclosure; less communication interfaces than iSULONA/TLx)
iSULONA-IV-E datasheet (commercial grade GNSS RTK receiver, moderate vibration hardened inertial sensors, small enclosure; less communication interfaces than iSULONA/TLx)

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