Euler Navigation
"Safe sensing and navigation for air taxis and delivery drones"
Miniature inertial and GNSS navigation sensors for urban air mobility, flying taxis, and delivery drones.
Euler Navigation (AMS Advanced Air Mobility Sensors UG), founded in 2023 and based in Munich, Germany, develops precision navigation hardware and algorithms for urban air mobility platforms including eVTOLs and delivery drones. Its flagship EULER-NAV BAHRS is a miniature Baro-Inertial Attitude and Heading Reference System incorporating IMU, barometer, magnetometer, and Kalman filtering with triple sensor redundancy. The EULER-NAV GPE is an extensible GNSS Positioning Engine, and EULER-NAV AINS is a miniature GNSS-aided Inertial Navigation System.
Software licensing tiers (Basic and Full) support civil aviation safety cases through white-box sensor fusion source access.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
EULER-NAV BAHRS
- Model: BAHRS
- Launch Year: 2023
Miniature Baro-Inertial AHRS with triple sensor redundancy for eVTOLs and delivery drones; 40x40x25mm, -40 to +80°C.
Miniature GNSS-Aided Inertial Navigation System (AINS)
Miniature GNSS-aided INS fusing IMU with up to 3 external GNSS for drones and eVTOLs
Baro-Inertial AHRS (BAHRS)
Redundant attitude/heading reference with 3x IMU, 3x barometer, 3x magnetometer for eVTOLs
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Germany
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2023
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Component Supplier
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Europe
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