With the Standard 30 MF, Anschütz has introduced a maintenance-free gyrocompass based on Hemispherical Resonator Gyro (HRG) technology. The HRG technology features an extremely rugged design and offers customers outstanding accuracy and reliability throughout the life cycle.
The Standard 30 MF is a heading sensor, motion reference unit and rate of turn indicator all in one. It features a high heading accuracy of 0.25° RMS sec lat and a high roll and pitch accuracy, and it works reliably even at high latitudes. As a strapdown gyrocompass, it calculates heading, roll, pitch and rate of turn from angular rates and accelerations. To measure angular rates, the Standard 30 MF uses hemispherical resonator gyros, a Coriolis vibrating gyro technology.
The Standard 30 MF introduces a number of additional features that significantly improve the robustness of the compass system. These include settling at rough seas, a heading output even if the speed and latitude input fails, and navigation at high latitudes.
Tests on an offshore vessel and on a Baltic Sea ferry have shown that Standard 30 MF can operate reliably and with the required accuracy for more than 28 days without latitude input, giving it a unique resistance even to jamming and spoofing attacks.
“With more than 600 installations and more than 5 million operating hours per year, the gyrocompass has proven itself in the field”, said Volker Wenzel, Technical Marketing Manager at Anschütz. “We are seeing a steadily increasing demand, because the Standard 30 MF is not only very reliable, precise and maintenance-free, but also easy to integrate.”
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