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Chapter 3: Operation
in an environment that has high dynamics for the first five to ten minutes
instead of sitting stationary.
With the gyro enabled, the gyro is also used to update the post HTAU
smoothed heading output from the moving base station RTK GPS heading
computation. This means that if the HTAU value is increased while gyro
aiding is enabled, there will be little to no lag in heading output due to
vehicle maneuvers. Hemisphere GPS’ GPS Technical Reference includes
information on setting an appropriate HTAU value for the application.
Time Constants
The V102 incorporates user-configurable time constants that can provide a
degree of smoothing to the heading, pitch, rate of turn (ROT), course over
ground (COG), and speed measurements. You can adjust these parameters
depending on the expected dynamics of the vessel. For example, increasing
the time is reasonable if the vessel is very large and is not able to turn
quickly or would not pitch quickly. The resulting values would have reduced
“noise,” resulting in consistent values with time. However, if the vessel is
quick and nimble, increasing this value can create a lag in measurements.
Formulas for determining the level of smoothing are located in Hemisphere
GPS’ GPS Technical Reference. If you are unsure on how to set this value, it
is best to be conservative and leave it at the default setting.
Note:
For heading and rate of turn there is no lag once the gyro is calibrated
and enabled.
Heading time constant:
Use the $JATT,HTAU command to adjust the level
of responsiveness of the true heading measurement provided in the
$GPHDT message. The default value of this constant is 10.0 seconds of
smoothing when the gyro is enabled. The gyro is enabled by default, but can
be turned off. By turning the gyro off, the equivalent default value of the
heading time constant would be 0.5 seconds of smoothing. This is not
automatically done and therefore you must manually enter it. Increasing the
time constant increases the level of heading smoothing and increases lag.
Pitch time constant:
Use the $JATT,PTAU command to adjust the level of
responsiveness of the pitch measurement provided in the $PSAT,HPR
Summary of Contents for V102 G
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Page 46: ...Appendix A Troubleshooting ...
Page 50: ...Appendix B Specifications ...
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