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Led by CEO Xavier Orr, Advanced Navigation is a Sydney, minutes to acquire heading in both stationary environments

Australia-based provider of navigation and robotics solutions. or on the move. The gyrocompassing allows the system to

Its solutions are used by top defense companies and car manu- determine a highly accurate heading of 0.01 degrees secant facturers, such as NASA, Tesla, Airbus, Boeing, Thales, Lock- latitude without any reliance on magnetic heading or GPS.

heed Martin and BAE Systems. Its mission is to develop solu- To achieve DFOG, three different, yet complimentary, tions that perform in the most demanding conditions with the technologies have been developed to improve the capabili- lowest SWaP-C (size, weight, power consumption and cost). ties of FOG.

Boreas D90 is an ultra-high accuracy, strategic-grade INS, 1. Digital Modulation Techniques: DFOG uses a offering a 40% reduction in size, weight, power and cost, specially developed digital modulation technique passing according to the company. Boreas D90 is the ? rst product spread spectrum signals through the coil. The new digital based on Advanced Navigation’s new DFOG (Digital Fiber modulation technique introduced in DFOG technology al-

Optic Gyroscope) technology, which is the culmination of lows in-run variable errors in the coil to be measured and 25 years of development involving two research institutions. removed from the measurements. This makes DFOG sig-

The Boreas D90 is targeted at applications requiring always ni? cantly more stable and reliable than traditional FOGs. It available, ultra-high accuracy, orientation and navigation in- also allows a smaller FOG with less coil length to achieve cluding marine, surveying, subsea, aerospace, robotics and the accuracy of one with a longer coil. space. The Boreas D90 delivers a strategic-grade bias stabil- 2. Revolutionary Optical Chip: By integrating 5 sen- ity of 0.001 deg/hr. This allows the Boreas D90 to achieve sitive components into a single chip and removing all the ? ber ultra-high roll/pitch accuracy of 0.005 degrees and heading splices, the size, weight and power is reduced considerably accuracy of 0.006 degrees. Boreas D90 allows for full GPS while signi? cantly improving reliability and performance. independence with dead reckoning accuracy of 0.01% dis- 3. Specially Designed Optical Coil: DFOG employs tance travelled with an odometer or DVL. This next genera- a specially designed closed-loop optical coil, developed to tion FOG features ultra-fast gyrocompassing, taking only two take full advantage of the digital modulation techniques.

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