The IMBQ-NVL Naval Tracking Mount is designed for shipboard applications. It is available with optional IMU, INS stabilization, as well as fibre optic slip rings. The photo below is an IMBQ-NVL being assembled for conformance testing. Once the pan/tilt has been tested to meet our standards it will be painted and shipped to our customer's site.
Like all IMAGO tracking mounts the IMBQ-NVL is designed to avoid parallax errors. This is an IMAGO advantage as we design our mounts to minimize the offset from the axes of rotation and parallax errors, which are not easily corrected and reduce tracking accuracy.
Tracking Mount Specifications
| Performance | Full Payload |
| Encoder Resolution | 20 arc-sec, optional 13 arcsecond |
| Pan-Tilt Positioner Mass | 100kg |
| Payload Mass, Maximum | 100kg |
| Range, Elevation | -20/+190ᵒ |
| Range, Azimuth |
+/-175 or Continuous (sliprings) |
| Tracking Dynamics - 100kg Payload, Sea State 1 | |
| Angular Rate, Azimuth | 60ᵒ/s |
| Angular Rate, Elevation | 60ᵒ/s |
| Angular Acceleration, Azimuth | 120ᵒ/s2 |
| Angular Acceleration, Elevation | 120ᵒ/s2 |
| Tracking Dynamics 70kg Payload, Sea State 1 | |
| Angular Rate, Azimuth | 90ᵒ/s |
| Angular Rate, Elevation | 90ᵒ/s |
| Angular Acceleration, Azimuth | 160ᵒ/s2 |
| Angular Acceleration, Elevation | 160ᵒ/s2 |
| 2 Axis Gyro Stabilization (optional) | |
| Bias Stability | 0.0035ᵒ/h |
| Angular Random Walk (ARW) | 0.0035ᵒ/√ hr |
| Sample Frequency | Up to 5000Hz |
| Azimuth Slip Ring | |
| Technology: Communication and Video | Fibre Optic |
| Supported Sensor Payloads |
Multiple Video Cameras: - GIGE, CCIR, RS170, CameraLink,etc. IR Camera Laser Rangefinder Radar High Speed Camera (Phantom, Photron, NAC, etc. |
| Technology: Power | Silver Fibre |
| Environmental | |
| Temperature Range, Operational | -20ᵒ to +55ᵒC |
| Heater, Enclosure (thermostatically controlled) | 100W |
| Heater, Pan/Tilt (thermostatically controlled) | 200W |
| Sealing | IP66 |
| Environment | Marine |