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INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ About this Manual The following annotations have been used to provide additional information. NOTE Note provides additional information about the topic. EXAMPLE Examples are given throughout the manual to help the reader understand the terminology.
IMU sensors. It is powered by RTK330LA – an ASIL B certified product of Aceinna. It is designed to work with odometer and RTK corrections for optimal performance. It is a lightweight and compact enclosure that consists of only two interfaces –...
The INS401 is powered directly from 12 V or 24 V battery systems (9 V ~ 32 V input range) and is designed and qualified to withstand the worst-case conditions in terms of overvoltage, reverse voltage and other fault conditions experienced in these vehicles.
An automotive grade FAKRA-J C type connector, manufactured by Molex, is used for the GNSS antenna connection. Its manufacturing part number is 734035112. The mating connector has part number 734036262. The center conductor carries the RF signal into the INS401 receiver and delivers 5 V DC from the INS401 to the external active antenna.
_____________________________________________________________________________________ Main Connector and Pin Description The main connector carries all the other power and I/O signals to and from the INS401 module. This connector is also of automotive grade and is manufactured by JAE Electronics. The male end which is installed in the INS401 housing has part number MX23A18NF1; the female end, which is attached to the external wiring harness, has part number MX23A18SF1.
The “Set User Configuration” command (see Table 11) should be used to re-align the coordinate system so that X is facing forward, Y is right, and Z is down if the INS401 is mounted in a different orientation.
Figure 5. The translation offset is measured as 1 m in each direction of x, y, z. The IMU to the GNSS antenna lever arm is [x, y, z] = [1.0, -1.0, -1.0] m. The “Set User Configuration” command in Table 11 should be used to configure the INS401 with the correct lever arm.
Ensure antenna is mounted to a rigid surface to minimize any movement due to vehicle dynamics. Power Requirement Operating voltage: 12V DC Current requirement: The INS401 consumes 4 W (typical value). It’s recommended to make sure the supply is capable of at least 600mA from 12V. Doc# 7430-3305-08 Page 10...
System Operation and Data Logging On the testing computer, only the “AceNav” Command Line Interface (CLI) software, is needed for the INS401 system to work and to log all the data output from the INS401 system. This CLI Doc# 7430-3305-08...
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3. Use an ethernet converter to connect with a testing PC via the RJ-45 jack 4. Power on the system 5. Go to the “AceNav” CLI folder, modify the “ins401.json” JSON file inside the “settings/INS401” subfolder, input the correct NTRIP account information as shown below: 6.
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INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ 7. After running the data logging command below, the information about INS401, the PC connection, and the NTRIP connection status will be displayed on the console. The NTRIP status shows “ok” of both [connect] and [request], then the system has connected to a valid NTRIP server for the GNSS RTK operation 8.
As stated in the overview, for optimal performance, it is necessary to provide the odometer input to the INS401. Refer to chapter 6 Ethernet Port and Messages section 6.5 Input Binary Packets for more information about the vehicle reference point and Table 8 for vehicle speed data packet.
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INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ Error standard deviation smaller than 0.1 m/s Normalized error autocorrelation at 0.1 s below 0.75 (mean removed before autocorrelation) Normalized error autocorrelation at 1 s below 0.70 (mean removed before autocorrelation) Error probability density function must be symmetrical (small deviations accepted) Maximum delay of 0.1 s...
Source Address: source MAC address Length: length of user data (0~1500), MSB for output message from INS401 to ECU or the 100Base-TX/100Base-T1 converter, LSB for input message. User Data: Min/Max data length is 46/1500. Zero bytes will be filled if less than 46 bytes ...
INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ Raw IMU Data Table 6 Raw IMU Data Message Raw IMU data, periodic output at 100 Hz Message ID 0x0a01 Length Payload Description : Byte Offset Type Name Unit Description uint16 gps_week GPS week uint32 gps_millisecs...
(vehicle). And the user device must send the RTCM messages over ethernet to the ethernet port of the INS401. The input binary packets for this function are defined in Table 7, followed by a detailed example.
Data frame checksum bytes In addition, another user input of the INS401 is defined as below, in order to enhance the dead reckoning (DR) performance of the IMU based INS solution. The accurate vehicle speed from the vehicle reference point provides accurate speed constraint to the along-track direction. This speed is decoded from CAN odometer messages, and usually is the average of the two rear wheels odometer speed.
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INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ commands and the INS401 response message are defined in pairs, where the request command is a two-byte hex value that is also the ID of the response message. Table 9 Get the Product Information Description Get the product device information, as per user poll...
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INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ uint32 Sequence ID refer to Table 13 Parameter value Response Message: Message ID 0xcc03 Length Payload offset variable name unit desc int32 result 0 : success -1 : invalid parameter number -2 : invalid parameter value...
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INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ Table 15 User sends system reset command Description User sends system reset command Request Command: Command 0xcc06 Length Payload None Response Message: Message ID 0xcc06 Length Payload None Table 16 User gets ins save buffer of fixed position of ins power on...
JG: Application software returns to GNSS mode from SDK burning mode. Notice: 1) INS401 only supports Eth port upgrade; 2) INS401 only supports the upgrade of APP, ST9100 and IMU, and does not support the online upgrade of BootLoader; FW Upgrade with AceNav Refer to Appendix B: AceNav CLI Software Usage for AceNav operation to upgrade INS401 firmware.
INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ Boot flag false St9100 st9100 Boot flag true Boot Jump to Sdk St9100 update data Start Boot Flag False Jump to GNSS IMU Boot Cmd Boot Flag True IMU Write app IMU Boot flag True IMU Boot Flag False...
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INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ State diagram flow chart Start JI form PC (Jump 2 IAP) Start Boot Flag False Is in IAP? Boot Flag True Jump 2 IAP Boot flag True Check Write Core CS from PC Should be “ C0 ” or...
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INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ Header Msg_Type Length Data 0x5555 0xcc0b 2 bytes Receive: Header Msg_Type Length Data 0x5555 0xcc0b PRODUCT_NAME_STRING, 2 bytes unit_version, PART_NUMBER_STRING, serialNum Table 15 Jump to IAP (JI) Send: Header Msg_Type Length Data 0x5555 0xaa01 2 bytes Receive: This command is used to jump to BootLoader.
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INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ The sent JA command needs to include the CRC values of rtk.bin and ins.bin. After receiving the JA command, the MCU will calculate the CRC of the written rtk.bin and ins.bin. Only when the calculated CRC values are correct , It will jump to the APP, otherwise it will stay under BootLoader.
When writing is successful, Length = 0 will show in the message returned by BootLoader. INS401 IMU FW Upgrade When upgrading the IMU, make sure that INS401 is in APP mode, otherwise the upgrade will not be possible. The IMU FW upgrade process is shown in Figure 8.
This command is used to let IMU jump to APP. INS401 STA9100 FW Upgrade When upgrading the STA9100, make sure that INS401 is in APP mode, otherwise the upgrade will not be possible. The STA9100 upgrade process is shown in Figure 9.
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INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ Header Msg_Type Length Data 0x5555 0xaa06 2 bytes Receive: Header Msg_Type Length Data 0x5555 0xaa06 2 bytes Table 19 Send STA9100 Bin First 5K Send: Header Msg_Type Length Data 0x5555 0xaa08 2 bytes When STA9100 writes SDK bin, there is a write timeout mechanism. To avoid triggering this mechanism, we will send a 5k bin file first.
INS401 User’s Manual _____________________________________________________________________________________ Appendix A: 16-bit CRC Implementation Sample Code The following is the 16-bit CRC sample code used in most of the code development. uint16_t CalculateCRC (uint8_t *buf, uint16_t length) uint16_t crc = 0x1D0F; for (int i=0; i < length; i++) { crc ^= buf[i] <<...
Lib: npcap, https://scapy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#windows GNSS/INS operation user settings Run the CLI software and connect with the INS401 system for the first time, there is a “setting” folder generated with subfolders named by Aceinna GNSS/INS navigation devices. Each type of device has a JSON format of configuration file, all the user settings including GNSS RTK correction NTRIP account information, IMU to GNSS antenna lever arm and so on.
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Run the executable with the CLI option to prompt for user input as below. ./acenav -i 100base-t1 --cli >>upgrade <INS401 FW file path> After successful FW upgrade, the INS401 system will restart and log data automatically. Doc# 7430-3305-08 Page 39...
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