The honeywell aerospace industry market reached a value of nearly $298.0 billion in 2020, having decreased at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of -0.3% since 2015. The market is expected to grow from $298.0 billion in 2020 to $430.9 billion in 2025 at a rate of 7.7%. The market is then expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.9% from 2025 and reach $573.6 billion in 2030.
Growth factors of honeywell aerospace industry in the historic period include increased demand for air travel technological advances, emerging economies, change in social behavior and low interest rates. Factors that negatively affected growth in the historic period were high exchange rate fluctuations, political uncertainties, volatile raw material prices and grounding of planes.
Going forward, growing demand for commercial use of drones, emerging economies, rapid advances in technology. Factors that could hinder the growth of the aerospace market in the future include budget airlines’ bankruptcy, order cancellations, increased cyber-attacks, global warming, poor aviation infrastructure, geo-political tensions, global recession, and coronavirus pandemic.
Aerospace Sensor Applications
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GG1320AN Digital Ring Laser Gyroscope
Gyroscopes are critical rotation sensing elements used in navigation systems (inertial navigation systems (INS), attitude and heading reference systems (AHRS) or inertial measurement units (IMUs) for manned and unmanned aircraft, spacecraft, marine vehicles and surface vehicles.
In addition, gyroscopes are important elements in platform stabilization systems (i.e. antenna stabilization) and where accurate pointing and/or targeting is required.
Honeywell gyro technologies include:
- Spinning mass mechanical gyros
- Fiber-optic gyros (FOGS)
- Micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) gyros
- Ring laser gyros (RLG)
Global Navigation System Sensor (GNSS) Unit
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) refers to a constellation of satellites providing signals from space that transmit positioning and timing data to GNSS receivers. The receivers then use this data to determine location.
By definition, GNSS provides global coverage. Examples of GNSS include Europe’s Galileo, the USA’s NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia’s Global’naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema (GLONASS) and China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.
The performance of GNSS is assessed using four criteria:
- Accuracy: the difference between a receiver’s measured and real position, speed or time;
- Integrity: a system’s capacity to provide a threshold of confidence and, in the event of an anomaly in the positioning data, an alarm;
- Continuity: a system’s ability to function without interruption;
- Availability: the percentage of time a signal fulfils the above accuracy, integrity and continuity criteria
The Honeywell Global Navigation System Sensor Unit is a 12-channel system designed to provide highly accurate GPS satellite navigation position.
Key Benefits:
The GNSSU is certified to meet technical standard order for the full range of flight:
- Departure
- Climb
- En route
- Descent
- GPS approach
- Provide highly accurate global positioning satellite navigation position information.
Inertial Navigation Systems
An inertial navigation system (INS) is a self-contained device consisting of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and computational unit. The IMU is typically made up of a 3-axis accelerometer, a 3-axiss gyroscope and sometimes a 3-axis magnetometer and measures the system’s angular rate and acceleration. The computational unit used to determine the attitude, position, and velocity of the system based on the raw measurements from the IMU given an initial starting position and attitude.
Honeywell Inertial Navigation system applications
Honeywell inertial navigation systems can be found anywhere in honeywell aerospace industry around the world spanning commercial and defense aircraft, autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs used for surveying and mapping, and so much more.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of an inertial navigation system?
An inertial navigation system provides absolute position and attitude information to a platform in honeywell aerospace industry, unlike an IMU. This information can be used to navigate vehicles autonomously, perform highly-precise inspections, generate high-definition maps for location applications and much more. You can read more about the advantages and disadvantages of an inertial navigation system here.
Precision Boresight Alignment System for Aircraft and Naval Ships
Honeywell’s precision boresight alignment system (PBAS) is a non-optical, gyro-stabilized, computerized system that utilizes navigation-grade inertial technology to capture and calculate boresight alignment corrections with an intuitive, step-by-step guided software that automates all calculations, and provides customized software outputs to match our customers’ requirements.
WHY BORESIGHT ALIGNMENT?
Boresight alignment is designed to ensure the proper performance of precision equipment across different industries. Depending on the application or platform, the process can be lengthy and expensive, usually having to perform cumbersome equipment setup, data gathering and post processing which can cause disruptions in aerospace or naval ship operations.
PRECISION BORESIGHT ALIGNMENT FOR AIRCRAFT
For commercial or defense original equipment manufacturers or maintenance providers that need higher accuracy to align munitions, navigation, radar and sight systems, Honeywell’s precision boresight alignment system (PBAS) step-by-step guided software reduces the need for expert training and job completion time by 50%. We do this by removing the need for periodic calibrations, line of sight, jacking or leveling. As a result, this dramatically decreases maintenance costs and downtime while providing customers with a solution they can trust backed by Honeywell’s century of experience engineering high-performance navigation solutions.
PRECISION BORESIGHT ALIGNMENT FOR NAVAL SHIPS
For shipbuilders, surveyors or maintenance providers that need higher accuracy to align munitions, navigation, radar and sight systems, Honeywell’s precision boresight alignment system (PBAS) using step-by-step guided software reduces the need for expert training and cuts job completion time by 50%. We do this by removing the need for line of sight as well as eliminating the need for dry docking by compensating for vessel motion and working without leveling while providing customers with a solution they can trust backed by Honeywell’s century of experience engineering high-performance inertial solutions. PBAS is ideal for naval applications where technicians operate in space-constrained areas because it reduces errors caused by motion, equipment setup time like instrument leveling, measurement time and associated costs by almost 50%, depending on the application in honeywell aerospace industry.
KEY HONEYWELL ADVANTAGES
- Intuitive step-by-step guided software
- No Manual Calculations or need for line of sight
- Does not require platform to be jacked/leveled/dry docked
- No calibration needed for life
- Small, lightweight and portable solution
- Can be used to align multiple platforms and systems
- Data output can be tailored to match your requirements
