ADIS16470 Tactical IMU Context

Market context

ADIS16470 is an Analog Devices precision IMU combining triaxial gyroscope and accelerometer sensing for stabilization, navigation, and motion-state estimation.

  • Target environment: UAVs, mapping payloads, mobile robots, stabilization platforms, test vehicles, and machines that need higher-grade inertial sensing.
  • Workflow context: Inertial measurement, dead-reckoning support, stabilization, navigation-state estimation, vibration-aware sensing, and motion feedback.
  • Customer context: Robotics developers, UAV builders, mapping-system integrators, autonomy test teams, and industrial equipment makers.
  • Deployment model: Board/module-level integration through SPI and calibration workflows into customer navigation or control systems.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial Analog Devices IMU product positioned for factory-calibrated stabilization and navigation sensing.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on drift requirements, vibration environment, calibration, software filtering, interface support, and cost versus commodity IMUs.
  • Market position: Precision inertial-sensing component upstream of localization and autonomy software.
  • Adjacent products: HGuide HG4930 MEMS IMU, MTi-680G GNSS/INS, BHI360 Smart IMU

Audience

Autonomous OEMs

Workflow

Inertial measurement, dead-reckoning support, stabilization, navigation-state estimation, vibration-aware sensing, and motion feedback.

Deployment environment

UAVs, mapping payloads, mobile robots, stabilization platforms, test vehicles, and machines that need higher-grade inertial sensing.

Specifications

  • Price: 1ku list price starting from $345.16
  • Motion Sensing: Triaxial gyroscope and triaxial accelerometer
  • Gyro Range: ±2000 degrees per second dynamic range
  • Accelerometer Range: ±40 g dynamic range
  • Interface: SPI-compatible serial peripheral interface
  • Calibration: Factory calibrated sensitivity, bias and alignment
  • Gyro Bias Stability: 8 degrees/hour in-run bias stability
  • Rate Noise Density: 0.008 degrees/second/sqrt(Hz) RMS
  • Accelerometer Bias Stability: 13 micro-g in-run bias stability
  • Supply Voltage: 3.0 to 3.6 V
  • Shock Survivability: 2000 g mechanical shock
  • Operating Temperature: -25 to 85 °C
  • Package Dimensions: Approximately 11 x 15 x 11 mm

Tags

  • Peer Group: Inertial measurement unit modules
  • Workflow: Drone Autonomy Stack, Mobile Robot Navigation
  • Capability: Inertial Sensing
  • Stack Layer: Inertial sensing hardware, Navigation Layer

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