The first reaction of people is to taste delicious food when an apple falls from a tree; But for Newton, it was the emergence of universal gravitation that refreshed the world's understanding of mechanics!

Newton's contribution to physics remains a golden direction for technical personnel to delve into the field of scientific research. Wuxi LINS Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "LINS  Technology") located in Xinhui Ring Road, Wuxi High tech Zone, has developed a MEMS inertial navigation system, which is the crystallization of modern technology research such as sensing based on Newton's laws of mechanics.

Zhao Wei, the head of LINS Technology, has a clear positioning for the company's development goal: to become the best MEMS inertial navigation system manufacturer in China!

 

Interview with Wu in this issue

Let's step into LINS Technology

Explore the development trajectory of this technology enterprise

MEMS inertial navigation

Get to know it

 

What is your impression of Jiangnan? Is it the tranquility of small bridges, flowing water, and homes, or the poetic greenness of the river water in spring? Yes, not entirely.

 

Once the birthplace of Wu culture, Wuxi High tech Zone has become a highland for emerging industries in the city. Xinhui Ring Road is a "road of science and technology enterprises". On this road, there are Wuxi's first listed company on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, Xiangsheng Medical, and LINS Technology, a domestic and global technology enterprise dedicated to the research and production of MEMS inertial navigation systems.

What is MEMS inertial navigation system? What is the connection between such a high-end product and people's lives? The conversation with Zhao Wei begins with this topic.

 

Let's start from an emotional perspective. New energy vehicles are at the forefront, with rising oil prices, the booming new energy economy, and the push for environmental protection. For a time, green license plate cars and prominent booths in major commercial complexes have been occupied by electric vehicles. Against this backdrop, MEMS inertial navigation systems are entering a golden period of development.

 

The high-precision positioning of autonomous driving mainly relies on satellite navigation, while functions such as automatic parking are greatly demonstrated by MEMS inertial navigation systems

Zhao Wei stated that satellite navigation is highly dependent on signals, therefore, when driving in areas with weak signals, inertial navigation systems as auxiliary navigation can meet the requirements of high-precision navigation.

 

From this, it can be seen that MEMS inertial navigation systems belong to the calculation navigation method, which calculates the position of the next point based on the continuously measured heading angle and velocity of the moving body from the position of a known point, thus continuously measuring the current position of the moving body. Its characteristics are: it does not rely on external information during operation, does not radiate energy to the outside world, is not easily disturbed, and is an autonomous navigation system.

 

From a tractor

To an electric car

Founded in 2017, LINS Technology is committed to the research and development, manufacturing, and sales of inertial navigation systems. At the recent Shenzhen exhibition, sensor based enterprises gathered. LINS Technology proposes to become the best MEMS inertial navigation system manufacturer in China! Where does this confidence come from?

 

Firstly, the research force

The main team of LINS Technology's entrepreneurship comes from top companies in the MEMS field, and Zhao Wei has been deeply involved in the research and development of inertial navigation products for agricultural machinery autonomous driving for more than ten years, accumulating rich industry experience and connections.

 

In view of this, LINS Technology has made the research and development of MEMS inertial navigation systems its core direction since its establishment. Afterwards, products for various intelligent mobile robots continued to emerge.

 

Next, look at the market

Through continuous exploration of market demand and positioning, LINS Technology has begun to emerge in the field of new energy vehicles, with sales growth of over 50% in the past three years.

 

Nowadays, LINS Technology has more than 100 customers, including well-known electric vehicle manufacturers such as Xiaopeng and Xiaomi. Currently, LINS Technology's automotive grade inertial navigation products are being tested by BYD, striving to win this leading enterprise.

 

 

Enable global use

Made in China

 

The mission and responsibility of LINS Technology is to enable the global use of MEMS inertial navigation systems manufactured in China.

 

As an advanced sensor system integrator in China that integrates data, software, and services, LINS Technology's product business covers the military industry; The fields of robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles; Engineering vehicles and agricultural machinery fields; Industries such as new energy, shipbuilding, and dynamic communication.

 

Scientific research is an important productive force of LINS Technology. Since its establishment, the company has invested sufficient budget funds in research and development, adhering to the development of high-tech with independent intellectual property rights. Currently, it has 3 utility model patents, 2 invention patents, and 14 software copyrights. The relevant intellectual property rights obtained have been converted into inertial navigation series products and successfully launched into the market.

 

There is always a return on investment. With outstanding achievements in the field of enterprise technological innovation, LINS Technology has successfully been selected as one of the first batch of high-tech enterprises in Wuxi City for 2021.

 

We will further enhance our sense of subjectivity, increase research and development investment, accelerate the company's independent innovation capability and success rate of achievement transformation in our respective fields, and play a positive demonstration and leading role in the technological innovation transformation of enterprises in the city.

 

Zhao Wei said that this is the rightful development of LINS Technology.

Strapdown inertial navigation system is LINS Technology's flagship product: it is a series of cost-effective and highly reliable attitude reference systems that can measure the attitude parameters (roll, pitch, heading), angular velocity, acceleration, position, and velocity information of moving carriers. This series of products adopts a sealed design, which can maintain measurement accuracy even in harsh environments.

 

This science and technology enterprise, which has not been established for a long time, now has very rich application scenarios, covering the surveying and mapping geographic information industry, robots and unmanned vehicles, autonomous vehicle industry, communication antenna in motion, precision agriculture autonomous agricultural machinery industry, and so on.

 

The installation of inertial navigation sensors in autonomous driving is a trend in the industry's development.

 

Zhao Wei said that LINS Technology is currently focusing 95% of its energy on the field of new energy vehicles, relying on the favorable semiconductor industry environment in Wuxi High tech Zone to enhance its core competitiveness and strive to make MEMS inertial navigation systems manufactured in China widely used worldwide.