Kearfott

Kearfott High Grade INS Integration

Integration Integeration with Kearfott’s High Grade INS has completed with success. The overall distance travelled accuracy was below 0.1% using our Rowe Tech Dual Frequency 600khz/1200khz ADCP/DVL and Kearfott’s High Grade INS. More details on how to configure the ADCP for the Kearfott system can be here: http://rowetechinc.co/wiki/index.php?title=Kearfott_INS_Setup Testing Testing was done in Mission Bay in very shallow water, about 2m-3m deep. This would ensure there would be drop outs from our ADCP when the depths got to shallow.

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Kearfott INS Integration

Integration Today we work with Kearfott to integrate our DVL with a Kearfott INS. They came to our location and we worked out all the commands they expect to send to the DVL to configure the ADCP. With the command ENGWHN 1 our DVL will output a carrot > and will accept the same commands as a Navigator. This allowed the integration to go quickly and smoothly. We then ran into one problem.

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