Inertial Solutions is closed. This site displays the history of Design & Development work by Nelson Henderson.  All his work are placed in the public domain.  The Products allowed: Augmented Navigation with GPS Control Attitude Control Heading & Direction Sense and control level Sense Barometric Altitude Sense Airspeed Sense Ground speed & Direction

Applications:   Land and Off-Road Vehicles Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Antenna Pointing Platform Stabilization Automotive Test Marine Vessels

Inertial Products:

A dozen (12) unsold complete systems remain ($2,200 each including a copy of the source code and compiler).  Recommend instead, the 3DRobotics Pixhawk autopilot.  Although, the one unsurpassed feature of the Inertial Solutions product is the 16 channel Time Processing Unit (TPU) on the MC68332 CPU.  The TPU allows the software to synchronize accurately to the GPS Time Mark strobe which generates a precisely timed interrupt on one of the TPU channels.

Typically, a user's navigation computer reads the stream of attitude, heading, and position messages coming from the Inertial Solutions processor card in order to compute and to provide back to the controller, command messages for steering, throttle, etc..

However, most features and more are available at ArduPilot for a better price.  ArduPilot is an open source community project doing more advanced development.  The software does more, the hardware is miniturized, and the processor is more powerful.  Mr Henderson of Inertial Solutions has contributed to the open source project.

 Solutions page shows The Inertial Solutions Flight Control User Interface that is similar to "Mission Planner" software freely downloaded to control the 3DRobotics Pixhawk autopilot.

Inertial Solutions:

The new 3DRobotics Pixhawk with the 168 MHz ARM STM32F429 with single precision floating point coprocessor, solves the computational limitations of the former Inertial Solutions 16 MHz MC68332 CPU.