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High Performance MEMS Inertial Sensors
for VTOL & Aerospace Applications

While commercial aircrafts have been using costly and bulky navigation-grade inertial sensors for decades, the emergence of new air mobility applications like eVTOL (Electrical Vertical Take-Off and Landing) and UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) are paving the way to a new generation of cost-effective, light, miniature and energy-efficient inertial sensors for navigation and flight control.

Alternative to analog quartz accelerometers and FOG gyros

Small size and
light weight

Stability and repeatability
under fast temperature changes

High rejection
of vibrations

High robustness
and reliability

The system requirements for the VTOL and aerospace markets combine high reliability and high precision under fast temperature changes and vibrations conditions during flight. High performance and low-SWaP sensors based on MEMS technologies are a tangible alternative to bulky and costly quartz accelerometers and FOG (Fiber Optic Gyros), demonstrating challenging performances at a fraction of their price, size, weight and power consumption.

High stability under temperature changes and vibrations

Tronics designs and manufactures high performance digital MEMS accelerometers and gyros that feature high bias stability and repeatability with excellent rejection of shock and vibrations, making them the ideal candidates to build GNSS-assisted navigation systems and AHRS (Attitude and Heading Reference System) for VTOL and UAV.

Applications

Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS)

Flight control systems

GNSS-assisted positioning and navigation

Aerial surveying
and mapping

Back-up flight instruments / standby instrument sytem

Gimbal and optical sensors stabilization Applications

Discover our products for UAV and VTOL applications:

Accelerometers from Tronics AXO®300 product line feature a very low bias residual error of 0.5 mg and a 1 mg composite bias repeatability over a wide temperature range. They are ideally complemented by the high performance GYPRO®4000 gyros product line that feature low ARW and bias instability to enable high performance navigation and attitude control systems.

Tronics’ high performance MEMS inertial sensors are housed in a light, miniature ceramic SMD package in order to maximize the payload of the UAV. They feature a digital SPI output to reduce the bill of material compared to analog sensors.

Please contact our team to talk further about your next VTOL or aerospace project!