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Teledyne TSS wins approval of performance standards from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for their MK31 (2 arc minute) Inertial Navigation System (INS)

The International Maritime Organization is the United Nations specialised agency responsible for improving maritime safety and preventing pollution from ships.

Performance standards for Inertial Navigation Systems were adopted by the IMO to enhance the safety of navigation by providing integrated and augmented functions to avoid geographic, traffic and environmental hazards. An INS comprises navigational tasks such as route planning, route monitoring and collision avoidance, including the respective sources, data and displays that are integrated into one navigation system.

An INS is defined as such in the performance standards if it covers at least two of the following navigational tasks/functions: route monitoring, collision avoidance and track control.

The MK31 (2 arc minute) Inertial Navigation System has been designed to meet the requirement for platform attitude and heading measurement to enable compensatory data to be provided to other ships systems. The MK31 is based on the Orion INS inertial navigation system originally developed for the demanding hydrographic survey, offshore construction and ROV operations markets. Both products incorporates three single axis ring laser elements and three highly accurate accelerometers. These core elements enabled the TSS research and development team to design this high specification Inertial Navigation System.

MK31 utilises the latest version of the TSS inertial algorithm, which has over 30 years of pedigree providing outstanding performance in all sea conditions. MK31 is offered as an IP65-rated surface unit as standard.

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