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Wednesday, 30 November 2011SkySails uses MTi to stabilize towing kiteThe innovative SkySails Propulsion System uses wind energy to reduce fuel costs and emission levels. SkySails GmbH is a midsized innovative company from Hamburg, Germany. It is the market and technology leader in the field of automated towing kite systems. Wind is the cheapest, most powerful... >> Full Story Monday, 24 October 2011Warwick Mobile Robotics (Hexakopter)Warwick Mobile Robotics is a collection of projects under development at the University of Warwick in the field of mobile robotics. One of these projects involves the development of an indoor aerial inspection vehicle. This PhD project is sponsored by Sellafield Ltd, and aims to build a... >> Full Story Tuesday, 23 August 2011Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC)The 2011 Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC) aims to bring industry and academia together to build vehicles that, by communicating with each other, can achieve safe and efficient platooning behaviour. The vehicles will be semi-autonomous in the sense that they are automatically... >> Full Story Tuesday, 26 July 2011MTi helps in predicting a thrown ball’s trajectoryThe DLR is Germany's national research center for aeronautics and space. The DLR’s Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics is the high-tech knowledge center for the development of intelligently controlled mechanisms (in particular robots, small satellites, airplanes, vehicles). The newest... >> Full Story Wednesday, 15 June 2011Tracking satellites on a moving ground vehicleEM Solutions is a private company founded in 1998 and comprises of approximately 40 people based in a 1800 sqm facility in Brisbane Australia. EM Solutions is a technology provider to commercial and military customers in the telecommunications sector, and is a market leader in the supply of... >> Full Story Monday, 31 January 2011XSENS MTi measuring mining shovel movements“The use of the Xsens MTi sensors allowed us to cut in half both the number of sensors needed and the system installation time, while making system calibration and maintenance much easier than before.”Amir Ahani,Senior Product Manager atMotion Metrics International Corp.Motion Metrics... >> Full Story Wednesday, 05 January 2011Xsens MTi’s used in fleet of autonomous robotsGround robots are already commonly used tools in the disposal of explosives, in urban areas and defense missions alike. Recently, there has been a growth in the number of purposes for unmanned ground vehicles. Examples of these purposes can be reconnaissance, surveillance and... >> Full Story Monday, 26 July 2010New test in AEC jet shows performance increase in latest SDKExtensive testing of the latest orientation algorithm at the Avionics Engineering Center (AEC) of the Ohio University in Athens (OH), USA, confirmed the high accuracy of the SDK and even demonstrated improved accuracy compared to tests performed at the AEC in 2009.Multiple MTi-G’s were... >> Full Story Wednesday, 21 April 2010CryoWing fixed-wing UAVThe Northern Research Institute in Norway (NORUT) is a national research group with activities in technology, social science and innovation. Its research is focused on the arctic region. One of the research programs of NORUT is on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). NORUT has assembled an... >> Full Story Tuesday, 09 February 2010MTi-G used in autonomous quadrotorThe Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) Group at the University of Freiburg in Germany has designed an indoor robotic helicopter (quadrotor) with a high degree of autonomous behavior. Unlike mobile robotics platforms with wheels, a system framework for flying platforms equipped with... >> Full Story Monday, 16 November 2009Xsens MTi measuring ship movements"The use of the digital MTi sensors avoided the requirement of expensive signal conditioning and data acquisition."ir. Jos Koning, Senior Project Manager at MARIN MARIN Wageningen is a world leading research institute focusing on technology and research for the maritime... >> Full Story Wednesday, 19 August 2009MTi-G accuracy put to the test in AEC jet aircraftIn a test with the test aircraft Aero L-29 Delfin jet of the Avionics Engineering Center (AEC, Ohio University) research engineers have proven that the Miniature GPS-aided Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS) MTi-G of Xsens provides excellent attitude and heading accuracy even during... >> Full Story Tuesday, 26 May 2009Racing analysis using the MTi-GIntroduction This application story is written by Boudoul Professional Racing, France. Boudoul Professional Racing used the MTi-G, in the ‘Bioracing Series’ sport-prototype (type LMP2 24 hours of Le Mans car) at the Nogaro circuit (France), to perform racing analysis. By... >> Full Story Monday, 19 January 2009Control system for unmanned helicopterDelft Dynamics develops control systems for manned and unmanned vehicles. Delft Dynamics focuses on the most challenging control: control of an unmanned helicopter. Thanks to Xsens Technologies’ MTi Inertial Measurement Unit, the helicopter can hover without intervention of an... >> Full Story Monday, 19 January 2009Stabilization of a walking robotThe Delft Biorobotics Lab, at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, currently focuses its work on humanoid robots. The lab has extensive experience in biped robots, with the first biped robot dating back to 1995. The FLAME robot is the 10th generation and was completed in... >> Full Story Monday, 19 January 2009Unmanned Vehicle (DARPA Challenge)The Cajunbot team of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA, USA participates in a $1million DARPA contest: an unmanned vehicle race from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Thanks to Xsens Technologies' MT9 Inertial Measurement Unit, the vehicle's laser sensor is stabilized, and the vehicle's... >> Full Story Monday, 19 January 2009Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with MTiThe Underwater Robotics Research Lab of the Computer Vision and Robotics team focuses its work on the design and development of the technologies needed to set-up Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) with application to marine science, archeology and industrial underwater inspection (Dams... >> Full Story |
