VectorNav Technologies - High-performance Inertial Navigation Solutions

VectorNav Technologies is the worldwide leader in embedded navigation solutions. Since its founding in 2008, VectorNav has been providing systems integrators in the military, aerospace, marine, and robotics industries worldwide with SWaP-C optimized, high-performance navigation systems.

Source: This article was originally published in LiDAR Magazine - Volume 10, Issue 4

VectorNav applies digital filtering and sensor calibration techniques that have decades of heritage in aerospace applications to the state-of-the-art in inertial sensors and GNSS, redefining possible in today’s inertial navigation technology. From the deep sea to remote deserts and beyond the stratosphere, VectorNav solutions enable UAVs and ROVs to circumnavigate the globe, defence systems to radically evolve, and world records to be broken. With more than 40,000 inertial systems deployed in a broad range of defence and commercial applications, its expertise you can count on.

High-performance Inertial Navigation Solutions

VectorNav offers a range of Industrial- and Tactical-Grade inertial navigation solutions for direct geo-referencing applications. Combining temperature calibrated accelerometers, gyros, and magnetometers, along with GNSS receivers, VectorNav products provide IMU/AHRS, GNSSAided INS and GNSS-Compass functionality.

Image 1: VectorNav High-performance Inertial Navigation Solutions

Tactical Grade Inertial Sensors with Multi-Frequency GNSS and RTK/PPK Capability

Weighing only 15 grams, VectorNav’s Tactical Embedded is the only product on the market to offer mrad-level attitude performance and centimetre-level positioning capabilities in a board-mount package. It is designed to enable dramatic reductions in size, weight, power and cost for the world’s most demanding aerial direct georeferencing applications.
For marine and defence applications where size, weight and power are less critical, VectorNav’s Tactical Series provides Tactical- Grade performance in IP68 rated enclosures certified to MIL-STD and DO-160G standards. For applications requiring Industrial-Grade performance, VectorNav’s VN-100 IMU/AHRS, VN-200 GNSS/INS and VN-300 Dual Antenna GNSS/INS offer the market’s most proven, miniature and cost-effective inertial solutions. 

Image 2: VectorNav's new Tactical Embedded product range

Inertial Navigation Library

Whether you are new to inertial navigation or looking for details on a specific topic, VectorNav’s Inertial Navigation Primer is packed with industry expertise and best practices to help your project along. Explore topics ranging from basic terminology and explanation of specifications to advanced topics like INS error budgets and nonlinear Kalman Filters.

LiDAR Mapping & Photogrammetry Application Notes

VectorNav provides deep technical content offering information on how to successfully integrate inertial sensors and GPS/GNSS into a variety of applications, including LiDAR Mapping, Photogrammetry, and more.