TopAxyz IMU for land, naval and air transport

Single source of navigation is no longer the optimum solution to ensure both accuracy and required resilience (availability and integrity) throughout the mission. As a consequence, resilience is provided by the kalman filtering datafusion and its key capability to identify sensors weakness and compensate it using alternative sensor characteristics.

TopAxyz Inertial Measurement Unit has no drift instability, allowing an easy characterization and compensation, valid throughout the mission in any condition.

This unique predictable performance will be at the foundation of all AI (Artifical Intelligence) based mission system to get safe and efficient navigation.

The number of platforms, in every domain (airborne, land, naval), has constantly increased and the multiplication of unmanned systems will amplify this trend. Meanwhile, on both military and civilian domains, radio navigation (GNSS) spoofing and jamming has become a global reality. This reinforces the need of integrity, i.e. trusting your navigation data in any condition at any time. TopAxyz IMU has been developed within the highest airborne safety critical level standard (ie: DO-254 Level A) and has permanent and comprehensive self-monitoring, resulting from the exhaustive Failure Mode Analysis Effect (FMEA), providing for your application the highest level of trust (i.e. integrity). 

TopAxyz Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) is entirely maintenance-free throughout its product lifecycle, while it records reliability levels that are superior to 100,000 hours of Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), as demonstrated on tens of millions of operating hours since 2015. These assets can significantly contribute to your system availability in operation and significantly reduce your customer cost of ownership. 

When adopting a new solution, there can be doubts such as the ability of the equipment to meet requirements in your environment without any side effects on your program. Thales can therefore offer a courtesy loan product within a short lead time so that it can be comprehensively assessed in your operational environment, demonstrating its pointing and navigation performance in order to meet your needs.

All related critical technologies, ranging from the accelerometer to the high-accuracy Ring Laser Gyrometer (RLG), are mastered by and are the property of Thales. They are designed and manufactured at proprietary facilities in France.

Through involvement in major civilian programs (Airbus A350) and flagship defense programs (SCORPION - French MoD), TopAxyz can be offered with short lead times, with product support being guaranteed throughout the longest program lifetime.