Inertial guidance

Inertial guidance is used to identify a mobile object in space without using information from outside the vehicule. In order to quantify the movement of this mobile object from one point to another, its spacial acceleration can be measuerd using sensors which mechanize Newtonian laws of motion.

The main applications are :
- civil and military aircraft,
- submarines,
- cruise missiles,
- rockets and space missiles.

Inertial navigation systems compute :
- latitude,
- longitude,
- heading,
- velocity.

And display this information to the pilot or to the automatic guidance system in the case of missiles.

Automotive industry

Several of our simulators are used in domains other than military ones, for example the automotive industry.

Here they are used for testing sensors attached to different servo systems such as :
- active suspension,
- A.B.S.,
- urban navigation,
- air-bag.

In addition, the emergence of electric motors for the propulsion of automotive vehicules has led to create specific simulators for testing sensors integrated into brushless motors.

Medecine

The human body, due to the inner ear, is sensitive to displacement in the three dimensions X, Y and Z.

Behavioural problems can be detected and analysed by submitting the human body, and thus its inertial system, to various stimulations.

Specialised vehicules
In hostile environments - contaminated by radiation or dangerous because of the risk of explosion, and especially where it is impossible to send a teleguided surveillance robot, or where it is necessary to destroy a suspect object - an inertial navigation system allows a vehicule to be guided independently with no risk for personnel.