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HGuide HG4930

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About HGuide HG4930

HGuide HG4930 combines three-axis gyroscopes and accelerometers within a 140-gram MEMS inertial measurement unit. It consumes less than three watts from a five-volt supply and provides calibrated angular-rate and acceleration data for navigation, stabilisation and closed-loop control.

The compact package is used in UAVs, loitering munitions, gimbals, antennas, robots, mapping systems and ground vehicles. Honeywell manufactures the unit in the United States and offers an S-Class version with higher bandwidth and data rates for stabilisation applications.

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Research

  • Robust Post-Processing for Marine GNSS/INS Integration: An Adaptive RTS Smoothing Approach via Huber M-Estimation

    2026-06-28 - Research Publication - The study validates a robust GNSS/INS smoothing method with an HG4930 during land-vehicle and shipborne navigation tests.

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  • Laser Pulse-Driven Multi-Sensor Time Synchronization Method for LiDAR Systems

    2025-12-12 - Research Publication - The study integrates an HG4930-equipped positioning unit into a UAV lidar system and evaluates laser-pulse-driven sensor synchronization.

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  • Boxi: Design Decisions in the Context of Algorithmic Performance for Robotics

    2025-04-25 - Research Publication - Boxi benchmarks the HG4930 against five other IMUs inside a multimodal payload for mobile-robot state estimation and mapping.

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  • Real-Time Scan-to-Map Matching Localization System Based on Lightweight Pre-Built Occupancy High-Definition Map

    2023-01-19 - Research Publication - The localization study includes an HG4930 in its reference sensor suite while evaluating a compact occupancy-map scan-matching method.

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  • Ego-Lane Index Estimation Based on Lane-Level Map and LiDAR Road Boundary Detection

    2021-10-27 - Research Publication - The study uses an HG4930 in a vehicle sensor stack for particle-filter ego-lane estimation under challenging GNSS conditions.

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Context

Market context

HGuide HG4930 is Honeywell's ultra-rugged tactical-grade MEMS IMU for autonomy, mapping, UAV, vehicle, and robotics applications.

  • Target environment: UAVs, mapping payloads, ground vehicles, mobile robots, stabilization systems, and field machines working in harsh environments.
  • Workflow context: Inertial navigation, stabilization, dead-reckoning support, mapping payload motion data, attitude estimation, and vehicle-state sensing.
  • Customer context: Autonomy teams, drone builders, mapping-system integrators, defense suppliers, field-robot OEMs, and vehicle developers.
  • Deployment model: IMU module integration with navigation software, GNSS, compute, calibration, vibration isolation, and customer control systems.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial Honeywell MEMS IMU product with public aerospace product page and robotics/mapping positioning.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on drift tolerance, ruggedness requirements, integration interface, calibration, vibration environment, supply availability, and cost.
  • Market position: Higher-grade inertial component for field robotics and autonomous-machine navigation.
  • Adjacent products: ADIS16470 Tactical IMU, MTi-680G GNSS/INS, Cube Orange+ Flight Controller

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