MTi-680G GNSS/INS Context

Market context

MTi-680G is Xsens' RTK GNSS/INS module for robots, drones, and vehicles that need fused positioning, orientation, and inertial navigation data.

  • Target environment: Outdoor mobile robots, UAVs, autonomous vehicles, mapping platforms, field machines, marine systems, and test vehicles operating beyond controlled indoor environments.
  • Workflow context: RTK positioning, orientation output, navigation-state estimation, velocity and motion sensing, sensor-fusion input, and localization support for autonomy stacks.
  • Customer context: Robotics developers, drone teams, vehicle autonomy programs, mapping-system integrators, field-robotics companies, and research or test fleets.
  • Deployment model: Packaged navigation component integrated into customer machines through hardware interfaces, software tooling, calibration, and application-specific localization pipelines.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial Xsens module with software tooling and positioning for robot, UAV, and vehicle navigation.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on GNSS availability, RTK correction access, antenna and mounting design, calibration, environmental conditions, and integration with the wider autonomy stack.
  • Market position: Packaged localization component between raw IMUs and full autonomy software, useful for field robotics and mobile-machine supply-chain coverage.
  • Adjacent products: ICM-42688-P 6-Axis IMU, BHI360 Smart IMU, JT16 Mini 3D LiDAR

Audience

Autonomous OEMs

Workflow

RTK positioning, orientation output, navigation-state estimation, velocity and motion sensing, sensor-fusion input, and localization support for autonomy stacks.

Deployment environment

Outdoor mobile robots, UAVs, autonomous vehicles, mapping platforms, field machines, marine systems, and test vehicles operating beyond controlled indoor environments.

Specifications

  • Position Accuracy: Centimeter-level RTK positioning
  • Heading Accuracy: 0.2 degrees RMS heading accuracy
  • Roll Pitch Accuracy: 0.2 degrees RMS roll/pitch accuracy
  • Interfaces: USB, RS232, RS422 and CAN options
  • Software Stack: MT Software Suite and SDK support

Tags

  • Peer Group: Gnss Receiver, Gnss Ins Modules, Imu
  • Workflow: Drone Autonomy Stack, Mobile Robot Navigation
  • Capability: GNSS positioning, Inertial Sensing
  • Stack Layer: Navigation Layer

Comparable Systems

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