Hemisphere Vector VS-i8 GNSS INS Receiver

Description

Hemisphere and Honeywell

Hemisphere has been an industry leader in civilian positioning technologt for over 20 years. They produce a variety of different products, that provide accurate and reliable positioning for agricultural, marine, machine control, and surveying. Behind many of the most recognizable positioning products in the space including Carlson’s RTK GNSS receievers, Vector marine antennas and Outback agricultural products, Hemisphere technology has powered it all. Based in North America, you get support on continent, allowing you to get support in your time zone. With offices in Scottsdale Arizona, Hiawatha Kansas, Calgary Alberta and Winnipeg Manitoba, you can always find someone who is able to help.

Honeywell has been an industry leader in defence and aerospace for over 100 years. They have provided industry leading technology for both aircraft, avionics and positioning technologies. This experience has been parlayed into creating one of the most successful companies of all times by providing innovative and reliable products for a variety of different applications including; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), drones, robotics and surveying and mapping.

VS-i8 INS 

The Hemisphere VS-i8 is a high-precision inertial navigation system (INS) that integrates Hemisphere’s Athena RTK engine with Honeywell’s top of the line IMU technology. Get accurate time-stamped positions, velocity, angular rate, linear acceleration, roll, pitch, and heading information. Designed to be lightweight, compact this solution is ideal for marine, UAV, robotic, mapping, GIS, LiDAR, mobile mappping and applications requiring a high degree of accuracy in a compact position.

An INS system is comprised of an inertial measurement system (INS), a GNSS reciever, and sensor fusion software. This allows for the calculating of positions, orientation and velocity to deliver position when satellite coverage is lost. This allows for the maintaining of highly accurate positions in areas where satellite service is otherwise denied including; urban canyons, under bridges, tunnels, moutains and more. Once initialized, the VS-i8 does not require further satellite corrections and can provide sub-meter accuracy after satellite lock is lost for 30 seconds. The velocity accuracy is accurate to 0.15 m/s horizontal and 0.03 m/s in the vertical for up to 60 seconds after satellite corrections are lost. Heading can be maintained to within 0.08° for 60 seconds.