(Cary, N.C.—January 31, 2017) - LORD Sensing MicroStrain—global leader in developing embedded sensing systems—has expanded its portfolio of sensors product for the industrial off-highway market, including agriculture, mining, and construction, with the introduction of the 3DM-GX5 family of inertial sensors.
“We have a large portfolio that shares the same software and protocol, allowing customers to move up and down the product line where they need more or less precision with MEMS Inertial Sensors or GNSS,” says Andy Winzenz, Commercial Director, LORD Sensing. “Customers can stay within the LORD family and dial into their needs.”
The latest generation of this award-winning inertial sensor family, introduced in October, has key feature upgrades from the GX4 model that extend capabilities for terrain compensation. The GX5-45 GNSS/INS sensor allows a greater degree of precision by moving through terrain in 3D when a GNSS signal alone is not accurate enough.
Key upgrades across the GX5 family include improved performance through in-situ heading calibration. Automatic magnetometer calibration and anomaly rejection eliminate the need for field calibration. The sensor is fully calibrated, temperature-compensated, and mathematically-aligned to an orthogonal coordinate system for highly accurate outputs.
Specific application examples that may need this type of precision include auto-steer, planting seeds to a specific depth, contouring land, and also autonomous grade control on digging jobs.
“Our inertial sensors provide automatic compensation for noise and drift, allowing a greater degree of precision,” says Winzenz. “And our innovative MIP communications protocol enables easy data acquisition and evaluation with higher reliability in communication and control.”
The GX5-45 features extremely stable and low-noise gyros, a new accelerometer with noise densities as low as 25μg/√Hz, a multi-constellation GNSS receiver, and dual M7 and M4 Cortex processors running a new Auto-Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter. The Kalman Filter has been proven to provide outstanding attitude accuracy, with almost negligible roll error during turns and other sudden course shifts.
The GX5 inertial sensors are easily integrated into customer systems, allowing users to quickly drop them into an existing application. It shares the same miniature footprint and API as LORD’s earlier inertial line and has the same mounting, connector and software as well as its high reliability.
“Every GX5 is fully calibrated and temperature compensated by our proprietary third generation robotic calibration equipment,” says Winzenz. “We have optimized these sensors for real-world conditions to maintain reliability and withstand high variations in temperature and shock.”
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LORD Corporation is a diversified technology and manufacturing company developing highly reliable adhesives, coatings, motion management devices, and sensing technologies that significantly reduce risk and improve product performance. For more than 90 years, LORD has worked in collaboration with our customers to provide innovative oil and gas, aerospace, defense, automotive and industrial solutions. With world headquarters in Cary, N.C., LORD has approximately 3,000 employees in 26 countries and operates 18 manufacturing facilities and nine R&D centers worldwide. LORD actively promotes STEM education and many other community engagement initiatives. For more information, visit http://www.lord.com.
