Glossary


 

Abbreviation Description
AHRS Attitude and Heading Reference System
AHS Active Heading Stabilization
AHT Active Heading Tracker
API Application Programming Interface
APC Antenna Phase Center
ARP Antenna Reference Point
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Exchange
a.u. Arbitrary unit
BASE Xsens’ Online Community Forum, Tutorial Videos and FAQ
BID Bus Identifier
BIT Built-In self-Test
CAN Controller Area Network
CS Checksum
CR Centre of Rotation
DCM Direction Cosine Matrix (Rotation Matrix)
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DID Device Identifier
DK Development Kit
DLL Dynamic Link Library
DOF Degrees Of Freedom
DOP Dilution of Precision
DSP Digital Signal Processor
ECEF Earth-Centered, Earth-Fixed
EDR Extended Dead-Reckoning
eMTS extended Motion Tracker Specifications 
ENU East-North-Up
FWU Firmware Updater
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS)
GPS Global Positioning System
GUI Graphical User Interface
HR High Rate (applies to MTi outputs AccelerationHR and RateOfTurnHR)
HW Hardware
I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit
ICC In-run Compass Calibration
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit
INS Inertial Navigation System
KML/KMZ Keyhole Markup Language (Zipped)
LLA, LLH Latitude, Longitude, Altitude/Height
LLCP Low-Level Communication Protocol
LSB Least Significant Bit
LTP Local Tangent Plane
LXYZ Local (Earth-fixed) coordinate system
MEMS Micro Electrical-Mechanical System
MFM Magnetic Field Mapper
MGBE Manual Gyro Bias Estimation
MID Message Identifier
MIL-STD United States Military Standard
MP2 Multi-Purpose cable (available for MTi 10/100-series devices)
MSB Most Significant Bit
MT(i/w) Motion Tracker (industrial/wireless)
MTB MT Binary format
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
MTM MT Manager
MTSS MT Software Suite
MTSSP MT Synchronous Serial Protocol
NMEA National Marine Electronics Association
NTRIP Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol
OBD-2 On-Board Diagnostic 2
ODR Output Data Rate
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OpenGL Open Graphics Library
OXYZ Object coordinate system
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PLCC Plastic-Leaded Chip Carrier
PPS Pulse Per Second
PVT Position, Velocity, Time
RepMo Representative Motion (part of the In-Run Compass Calibration feature)
ROS Robotic Operating System
RTCM Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services
RTK Real Time Kinematics
SBAS Satellite-Based Augmentation System
SCR Sensor Component Readout (uncalibrated/raw output mode)
SDI Strapdown Integration
SDK Software Development Kit
SMD Surface Mount Device
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
SVInfo Space Vehicle Information
SXYZ Sensor coordinate system
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTC Universal Time Coordinate
VRS Virtual Reference Station
VRU Vertical Reference Unit
WGS World Geodetic System
WMM World Magnetic Model
Xbus Xsens Communication Protocol
XDA Xsens Device API, the communication API between the MTi and the user application.
XDI Xsens Data Identifier
XEE Xsens Estimation Engine
XFF Xsens Firmware File format
XKF Xsens Kalman Filter
XML eXtended Markup Language
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