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Inertial Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles

Location aware, everywhere

State-of-the-art inertial navigation for autonomous air, ground and marine vehicles

Trimble’s inertial navigation takes your autonomous vehicles places normal GNSS simply won’t reach. Let’s increase your autonomous program’s capabilities, efficiency, and your safety by coupling GNSS with INS.

Advanced Inertial Navigation

Autonomously navigate any environment

Unlock positioning data that’s always there and always accurate.

Trimble’s inertial + GNSS technology uses the current position of your moving vehicle and incorporates the estimations of speed, heading direction and course over elapsed time to keep your autonomous vehicle on track.

Uninterrupted precision

Absolute accuracy to within 2cm

Robust capabilities

Extreme climate and terrain ready

Maximum profit

Simple install, reduced development time

WHY TRIMBLE

Inertial navigation for agriculture

Grow your agricultural productivity, reduce costs.

  • Develop autonomous farm machinery control systems that support continual knowledge of relative to fields and crops
  • Avoid planting and harvesting mistakes while minimizing time and fuel usage
  • Understand true crop health with site-specific data on water, fertilizer and pesticides to maximize yield
  • Correct for tilt errors in the GPS ground position determination
  • Increase operator safety by supporting roll-over warnings
  • Save on fuel, man-hours and overall costs by eliminating the need to redefine plot boundaries
  • Industry-leading customer support and engineering with a hands-on approach to customized solutions always within reach

WHY TRIMBLE

Inertial navigation for automotive

Unparalleled positioning, unlimited performance.

  • Support all levels of autonomous driving, including advanced driving support systems (ADAS) with precise positioning
  • Maintain continuous positioning using inertial navigation for safety-critical applications without external data points or signals
  • Increase reaction time of autonomous driving platforms
  • Improve route planning and overcome dynamically changing route conditions
  • Leverage proven solutions used by leading manufacturers
  • Industry-leading customer support and engineering with a hands-on approach to customized solutions always within reach

WHY TRIMBLE

Inertial navigation for construction

Improve the safety of your sites with reliable positioning and orientation technology.

  • Powerful enough for use on manned platforms as a fully automatic machine control solution, yet small enough for use on unmanned aerial drones
  • Evaluate construction progress and collect data for future planning
  • Guide heavy machinery such as dozers or compactors in any environment with continuous, reliable autonomous guidance
  • Monitor, identify and mitigate potential hazards using drones on a daily basis
  • Enhance surveying with heading, pitch and roll computations that are accurate to 0.09 degrees
  • Overcome extreme temperatures with ruggedized hardware
  • Save time and money by reducing the number of ground control points needed
  • Industry-leading customer support and engineering with a hands-on approach to customized solutions

WHY TRIMBLE

Inertial navigation for logistics operations

Never let interference or weather disrupt your flow.

  • Keep up with network demands and safely move more freight and passengers
  • Navigate surroundings and challenging environments where GNSS interference is common, such as congested ports and near metal structures
  • Keep automated vehicles moving and acquire precise position quickly when moving from GNSS-denied indoor environments to open outdoor spaces
  • Quickly assess asset integrity post-storm or damage event
  • Survey man-made structures in coastal waters and the ocean floor of harbors with precision accuracy
  • Industry-leading customer support and engineering with a hands-on approach to customized solutions always within reach

WHY TRIMBLE

Inertial navigation for mining

Improve the safety and accuracy of self-driving and automated mining equipment.

  • Augment autonomous subterranean vehicle geospatial data, even in GNSS-denied environments
  • Easily measure and aggregate volumes without the need to walk stockpiles
  • Maximize production and improve safety by using your autonomous operational assets to go to work in extreme conditions
  • Save on fuel, man-hours and overall costs by eliminating the need to redefine plot boundaries
  • Overcome obstructions or outages with continuous dead-reckoning positioning data to stay on track
  • Industry-leading customer support and engineering with a hands-on approach to customized solutions always within reach

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