Precision navigation for UAVs, mini-munitions, and handhelds through application of low cost accurate MEMS IMU/INS technology

Abstract

GPS has previously been integrated with mobile PDApsilas and/or with Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). However, to date, no low-cost, low-power, miniature (i.e., less than 2 in.3) IMU/INS has been integrated into smart munitions, electronics, handheld GPS units or miniaturized cooperative low cost interceptors to create a miniature G hardened multi-functional module. Several DoD contractors are evaluating the JayMart Sensors low cost miniature IMU/INS module for smart munitions, mini-missile and micro-UAV weapons. A commercial company will soon link the module to a network of mobile PDApsilas enabled with GPS to provide location-based coverage indoors for emergency workers and DoD is scheduled to gun launch the module to test its ruggedness later this year.