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The POLAR-300 is a high-end, MEMS-based Air Data and Attitude and Heading Reference System (ADAHRS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS). It is perfect for system integration in avionics packages or other attitude sensing applications, and includes:
- Attitude Heading & Reference System (AHRS).
- Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).
- Inertial Navigation System (INS).
- Air Data System (ADS).
- Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS, including: GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, BeiDou).
POLAR-300 has proved itself in a variety of highly dynamic environments, giving outstanding results:
- Red Bull Air Race
- MotoGP onboard 'GyroCam'
- Reno Air Races.
- Various UAVs as the onboard ADAHRS for the Customer's own flight control computer.
Redundancy built into the POLAR-300 software allows it to survive individual sensor failures while maintaining accurate estimates of attitude and position. Its high-performance MEMS-based IMU is calibrated and compensated over the full industrial temperature range.
Key features:
- High accuracy attitude estimation. Precise attitude determination is an essential process for aircraft navigation and control. To achieve outstanding levels of attitude estimation precision, years of research and development of aerospace-grade sensor fusion estimation algorithms have been invested.
- Redundant IMU.
- Compact and easy to integrate.
- Supplied as standard in an aircraft-grade anodized aluminium box.
- Optionally it can be supplied as an OEM board for direct integration in the Customer's product
- As a developer and manufacturer of professional grade autopilots, UAV Navigation is committed to the highest aviation standards in terms of product performance, accuracy and reliability. UAV Navigation's manufacturing facility is equipped with state-of-the-art calibration and measurement tools and all products which leave the facility must pass exhaustive Quality Control checks. Repeatability is key. All equipment and tools used during manufacture, calibration and Acceptance Testing Protocol (ATP) comply with UAV Navigation's strict Quality Policy
- Combines exceptional navigation and attitude performance device in a wide range of high dynamics conditions and GPS-denied dead-reckoning navigation.
- Quaternion-based solution. Avoiding the gimbal-lock problems found in traditional systems.
- High data report rates from the sensors in order to reduce the latency. This is a critical requirement in advanced control systems.
- It is used as the onboard sensor suite inside UAV Navigation's VECTOR autopilot.
- Compatibility with DGC01 (Dual GNSS Compass + External GNSS). It improves heading estimation also in static applications.
- GNSS redundancy when used alongside with DGC01.
- Internal temperature measurement redundancy.
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REDUNDANCY AND SAFETY
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Online Sensor Diagnostics
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Yes
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Sensor Failure Tolerance
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All single, several multiple
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MTBF
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Over 60462 h
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INTERFACES
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Telemetry Port (P0)
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RS-232. Configuration / Telemetry
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Telemetry Port (P1)
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RS-232 / 422 / 485 . Configuration / Telemetry (Up to 3 Mbps)
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CAN (Under request)
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CAN A/B. Up to 1 Mbps
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ELECTRICAL
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Input Voltage
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+9V to +36V DC
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Power consumption
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1W (@ 12 VDC)
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GNSS
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Receiver Type
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72 Channel, L1C/A, L1OF, B1I, E1B/C
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Constellations
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GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
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Time to First Fix (Cold / Hot)
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< 26 s / < 2 s
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Altitude / Velocity Limit
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50,000 m / 500 m/s
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Navigation Update Rate
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5 Hz
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GNSS PPS
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30 ns RMS, 60 ns 99%
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Horizontal Position Accuracy
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2.5 m (CEP, 50%, 24 h static, -130 dbm, >6 SVs)
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Heading Accuracy
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< 0.4º Dynamic (50% @ 30 m/s)
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Dual GNSS Compass / External GNSS
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External Payload Available (DGC01)
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AIR DATA SYSTEM (ADS)
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Airspeed Ranges
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15-220 kt
43 – 450 kt (Under Request)
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Airspeed Precision
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±3% Reading
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Airspeed Resolution
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±1 kt
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Altimeter Range
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-2.000 ft to +36.000 ft AMSL
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Altimeter Accuracy
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±3% Reading
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Altimeter Resolution
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±1 ft
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INTERFACING
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Sampling Rate (IMU + Attitude)
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Up to 500 Hz
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ACCELEROMETERS
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Range
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± 8 g, all Axes (± 15 g Under Request)
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3dB Bandwidth
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200 Hz
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Noise
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<0.43 mg/√Hz
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GYROSCOPES
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Range
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± 300 º/s, all Axes
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3dB Bandwidth
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77 Hz
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Noise
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0.015 °/s /√Hz
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MAGNETOMETER
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Internal Magnetometer
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3 Axes (possibility to connect external magnetometer, e.g. MG01)
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Altitude Compensation
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Yes
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Full Scale Range
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+/- 1000 uT
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Sensitivity
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0.10 uT
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Maximum Applied Magnetic/Field
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100,000 uT
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Calibration
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3D/2D
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AHRS/INS DYNAMIC ACCURACY *
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Pitch & Roll Error
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< 0.5º
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Heading Error
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< 1º
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Estimated Position Accuracy
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2.5 m CEP, GNSS & SBAS available
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Dead Reckoning Drift
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<30 m/min (continuous, not first minute only)
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MECHANICAL / ENVIRONMENTAL
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Size (mm, H x W x L)
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Weight
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Mating Connector (Boxed)
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Micro-D Type, Male, 15-Pin
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GNSS Antenna Connector (Boxed)
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50 Ohm SMA Female
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Static / Pitot Port Diameter (Boxed)
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3.0 mm
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Humidity
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Up to 90% RH, Non-Condensing
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Temperature Range
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-40 to +85 ºC
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Shock Survival
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500 g, 8 ms, ½ sine
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| POLAR-300 Kit |
UAV Navigation offers the POLAR-300 Kit to enable evaluation of the POLAR-300 product by Customers.
The Kit includes a POLAR-300 unit along with a POLAR-300 Break Out Board (BOB) to allows the user to access all the available POLAR-300 Inputs and Outputs.
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POLAR-300 Kit |
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POLAR-300 for Flight Control Computers (FCC)
POLAR-300 is a compact and lightweight device designed to provide reliable and accurate data stream from our tested and optimized attitude and heading reference system to SATCOM, camera gimbal or third-party Flight Control Computers (FCC).
