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Hardware

F180R MOTION Sensor User and Reference Guide

NOTE: If you have specified a Remote Lever Arm then the position, velocity, heading

and attitude data are for the remote lever arm location.

NOTE: If you have entered a Vessel Orientation but you have not set a Remote Lever

Arm, the position, velocity, attitude data are relative the IMU and the heading data are

for the vessel.

NOTE: If you have not set either a Remote Lever Arm or a Vessel Orientation, then the

position, velocity, attitude and heading data are for the IMU.

The remote lever arm must be given in the vessel reference frame.

You should try to keep the remote lever arms as short as possible, because vibrations will

introduce motion errors proportional to the lever arm distance. Whenever possible mount the

IMU near the required measurement point.

For heave measurements is set to AC coupling, which will generate a heave output that has a

long term average of zero.

3.5

Communication

So far you have installed and interconnected the components of the F180R System Inertial

Attitude and Positioning System so that they are ready for use. This chapter of the manual

describes the various interface options and data output formats that you may use with the

F180R System.

The F180R System system communicates with the controlling PC and with external equipment

over various protocols using five interface ports: Ethernet, COM1, COM2, COM3 and PPS: