We Make It Easy for You to Simulate the Real World
IMU MODELING
AND SIMULATION
CAST-Inertial provides you with the ability to properly stimulate INS and GNSS/INS navigation systems. Our systems produce GNSS RF signals and IMU sensor data that provide a fully dynamic simulation capability.
Dynamic INS and GNSS Signals
When you are faced with the challenging task of integrating and testing today’s complex EGI and GNSS/INS navigation systems, CAST Navigation’s INS system supports you by providing high rate inertial data with exceptional fidelity. We designed the system for optimal performance when the inertial sensor and GNSS receiver are loosely, tightly, or ultra-tightly coupled, or when an INS aiding source can be utilized by any other type of device.
CAST Navigation’s INS simulation systems provide the precise dynamic INS and GNSS signals you need to properly stimulate modern integrated navigation systems and platforms during development, integration, and testing. Our global clients include military, industrial, and commercial laboratories and we continue to play a critical role in their research and design of emerging technologies.
Intuitive GUI
CAST Navigation’s INS systems include a comprehensive and intuitive graphical user interface that enables you to customize the IMU sensor block’s output performance characteristics and drift rates to match those of your navigation unit or your performance modeling parameters. CAST systems also allow you to select from a wide variety of vehicle types: airborne, terrestrial, aquatic (including sea state), and space-based orbital vehicles. You can operate the systems in pre-generated or real time 6-DOF input motion generation modes and use them as a stand-alone or integrated into a “suite” of capabilities.
Inertial System Features
Additional Inertial Outputs or Jamming Capabilities
For 40 years, CAST has collaborated with many IMU manufacturers in the development and refinement of laboratory test interfaces. CAST INS interfaces support most types of INS protocols and data rates and will customize an INS interface to meet specific requirements and testing needs.
The CAST INS modular design approach allows the technology to be combined with any CAST GNSS simulator and capability. We can configure these comprehensive and flexible systems to meet your changing or growing INS stimulation needs. We can easily add inertial outputs, RF outputs, and jamming capabilities to our system to meet you unique needs. We can also configure each additional output to provide identical, similar, or different IMU performance conditions, vehicle types, trajectories, and navigation signals.
We can modify any of our INS simulators to accept the addition of a variety of options—including additional signal, terrain obscuration, and signal interference capabilities—or synchronize multiple CAST systems to create a more robust and flexible simulation environment, to meet any specific or challenging application you may have.
CAST Inertial Specifications
Inertial Platform Types
Strapdown
Locally-Level Gimballed
Space Stabilized
Maximum Inertial Rates
Angular Rate: 15π rad/s
Angular Acceleration: 2900π rad/s2
Velocity: ±120,000 m/s
Acceleration: (±192,600 m/s2)
Jerk: 510 g/sec (±890,400 m/s3)
Angular Rate: 15π rad/s
Angular Acceleration: 2900π rad/s2
Maximum Dynamics
Velocity: > 60,000 m/s
Acceleration: ± 150,000 m/s2
Jerk: ± 150,000 m/s3
IMU Interface Types
LN-100G, LN-200, LN-251, LN-260, LN-270
H-764G, HG-1700, HG-1900, NAV-100
SD500
MIL-STD-1553
STANAG 4572
Customized SDLC Communications
Customized RS-422 Communications
The CAST Navigation Mission
Our primary mission is to understand and deliver powerful GNSS/INS Simulation Systems
that meet or exceed our customers’ expectations. Helping you make the decisions
necessary to improve your company’s products and processes.