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Advanced Navigation equipment is widely deployed in marine navigation applications. The company continues to invest in research and development to provide ever improving solutions for dealing with this harsh environment.

Marine applications require equipment that can withstand strenuous conditions as well as help clients deliver improvements in efficiency, safety and smaller carbon footprint – we understand that these are increasingly important considerations.

We also understand the need for designing and building tools and navigation systems for marine users that will provide not only be commercially beneficial, but will assist in improving our interaction with the marine environment. Our clients cover a vast array of applications, ranging from vessel navigation, hydrography, research, and inspection of critical infrastructure to competitive yacht navigation.

Advanced Navigation is one of the largest inertial navigation systems (INS) manufacturers. Our range of MEMS and FOG-based inertial navigation systems provide accurate position, velocity, acceleration, and orientation under the most demanding conditions. They combine temperature-calibrated accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, and pressure sensors with state-of-the-art RTK GNSS receivers. These are coupled in an AI-based algorithm to deliver the highest performance for the lowest SWaP-C (Size, Weight, Power Consumption, Cost).

This proprietary algorithm increases the INS accuracy by tracking sensor errors faster than the traditional Kalman filter. With many traditional inertial navigation systems, basic linear constraints are applied to position, velocity and acceleration. In contrast, the Advanced Navigation AI-based algorithm applies far more thorough dynamic constraints with full physics models of vehicle motion, allowing for better tracking of errors, more reliable data, and higher accuracy.