The xRED3000 board set has been in the world for 18 whole months now. The device allows you to build highly accurate navigation capabilities into your project, as well as a sophisticated sensor fusion engine, making it an ideal GNSS/INS for localisation. It weighs just 22 grams, and is smaller than a Nintendo Gameboy cartridge.
Plus, it’s on a red PCB. And we still aren’t over how great it looks.
In this blog, we’ll share with you some of the most exciting uses our customers are putting the xRED3000 GNSS/INS to – and explain why this small but mighty INS is ideally suited for each task.
1. Surveying (especially aerial surveying)
Using the xRED3000 GNSS/INS for localisation provides many of our customers in the surveying space with an accurate and affordable GNSS/INS that can be integrated into their payloads with ease. The centimetre-level position accuracy that the xRED3000 can provide gives those customers great data for georeferencing an array of sensors – improving the quality of the product they can deliver to clients.
If they’re conducting LiDAR surveying, then they’re also taking advantage of our accompanying software, OxTS Georeferencer, that simplifies the process of combining pointcloud and localisation data to produce high-quality and beautiful pointcloud images.
The xRED3000 is especially useful for aerial mapping surveys because of its SWaP characteristics. It’s light enough that you can add it to your payload without limiting your flight time, and small enough that it can be integrated into your payload with minimal complications.
We’ve also had customers using the xRED3000 in their surveying products that they build for sale to surveyors. Because it delivers powerful performance at a reasonable price and is ITAR-free, the xRED3000 is a commercially attractive option for those making surveying products.
1. Surveying (especially aerial surveying)
Many of our customers in the surveying space have been integrating the xRED3000 into their surveying payloads, both on land and in the air. The centimetre-level position accuracy that the xRED3000 can provide gives those customers great data for georeferencing – improving the quality of the product they can deliver to clients.
If they’re conducting LiDAR surveying, then they’re also taking advantage of our accompanying software, OxTS Georeferencer, that simplifies the process of combining pointcloud and localisation data to produce high-quality and beautiful pointcloud images.
The xRED3000 is especially useful for aerial mapping surveys because of its SWaP characteristics. It’s light enough that you can add it to your payload without limiting your flight time, and small enough that it can be integrated into your payload with minimal complications.
We’ve also had customers using the xRED3000 in their surveying products that they build for sale to surveyors. Because it delivers powerful performance at a reasonable price and is ITAR-free, the xRED3000 is a commercially attractive option for those making surveying products.
2. Autonomous Navigation
As a boardset INS, the xRED3000 has proved a popular localisation solution for those making autonomous mobile robots. There’s no bulky housing to work around when integrating it into the platform, and its size and weight suit SWAP-constrained AMRs.
One of the things clients have been particularly enjoying is the sensor fusion capabilities of the xRED3000. Via the OxTS GAD Interface, they can feed data from perception sensors into the INS to make the localisation data more robust – especially useful in areas where GNSS signal is weaker or nonexistent.
That lead us conveniently on to our third popular use case…
3. Harsh GNSS Environments
In almost every use case, anyone using an INS for localisation has to contend with variances in GNSS signal strength. Especially in built-up areas, lines of sight to satellites can be lost, or signal blocked entirely – and although the IMU in an INS can preserve accuracy for a while, it quickly starts to drift.
That is, unless you’re working with OxTS.
All our INS devices, including the xRED3000, have a number of handy innovations to help preserve position accuracy in harsh GNSS environments, or even GNSS-denied environments. We’ve already mentioned the OxTS GAD Interface, which can take data from sensors such as wheelspeed sensors to limit drift when there’s no GNSS signal; we also have our gx/ix tight-coupling algorithm that allows you to squeeze better accuracy out of whatever satellites your INS can see.
That’s a lot of capabilities for such a small INS!
One of the best things about being OxTS is that we get to help our clients do awesome things that push the boundaries of what’s possible with technology. We’re excited to see what our clients get up to in the next 18 months with the xRED3000.
Download the OxTS xRED3000 datasheet
Combining two survey-grade GNSS receivers and OxTS’ latest IMU10 technology, the xRED3000 is engineered to be the GNSS/INS component for any product that needs accurate localisation, even in harsh environments.
Packed full of features, and coupled with the accuracy and reliability you would expect from an OxTS INS, the xRED3000 is the ideal partner for anyone looking to build a navigation solution.
Download the datasheet today to find out more.
If you’d like to use our smallest and lightest INS in your own project, click below to get in touch to discuss what you’re up to and order your evaluation unit.
