HGuide HG4930 MEMS IMU

HGuide HG4930 is Honeywell low-SWaP MEMS inertial measurement unit for navigation, stabilization and control. It is built for UAVs, gimbals, antenna stabilization and other systems that need tactical-grade motion sensing in compact hardware.

Facts

  • Company: Honeywell Aerospace Technologies
  • Type: Mems Imu
  • Core: Tactical inertial
  • Function: Navigation
  • Audience: UAV makers
  • Status: Commercial
  • Website: https://www.honeywellaerospace.com/us/en/products-and-services/products/navigation-and-sensors/inertial-measurement-units/hguide-hg4930-mems-inertial-measurement-unit

Specifications

  • Ruggedness: Ultra-rugged MEMS IMU designed for very challenging environments
  • Target Use Cases: UAVs, loitering munitions, industrial equipment, robotics, survey/mapping and ground vehicles
  • Bandwidth Context: HG4930-S offers higher bandwidth and data rates for closed-loop control applications
  • Manufacturing Location: Designed and built at a Honeywell facility in the USA
  • Export Classification: ECCN 7A994; generally available without an export license

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.

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Research

  • Honeywell is building SwiftDecoder into Corvus warehouse drones - 2025-03-13 - Article - A March 13, 2025 Corvus partnership places Honeywell barcode software inside warehouse inventory drones, while Honeywell extends Momentum WES through Teradyne Robotics.
  • Robust Post-Processing for Marine GNSS/INS Integration: An Adaptive RTS Smoothing Approach via Huber M-Estimation - 2026-06-28 - Research Publication - Land-vehicle and shipborne trials use an HG4930-based inertial setup to test post-processed GNSS/INS navigation under weak and contaminated satellite measurements. The adaptive Rauch-Tung-Striebel smoother combines Huber… - source: doi.org
  • Laser Pulse-Driven Multi-Sensor Time Synchronization Method for LiDAR Systems - 2025-12-12 - Research Publication - A UAV lidar payload uses a positioning-and-orientation unit containing an HG4930 IMU to provide 100 Hz position and attitude data under high vibration. The proposed method timestamps the positioning and scanner streams… - source: doi.org

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