Mission
TeKnol Ltd. is an independent, privately held company headquartered in Moscow, Russia.
It was founded in 2003 by a group of scientists, engineers and investors with the goal
of commercializing analytic sensor fusion algorithms technology developed, tested and
refined by key members of the group over several years.
History
The backbone of the company is a research group of prof. Oleg
Salychev, formerly employed in the Moscow State Technical University
n.a. Bauman (www.bmstu.ru). The group was engaged in the development
of inertial navigation systems software/hardware both gimbal and
strapdown implementations. With GPS became available, the INS/GPS
integration projects has been developed for both private and governmental customers.
By the time of TeKnol founding prof. Salychev’s group had fulfilled a
number of R&D projects having as customers the world most distinguished companies as:
- Daimler-Chrysler, USA (Low cost IMU/GPS integration)
- Daewoo Heavy Industries, Korea (Inertial System for Land Navigation)
- Samsung Electronics (low cost inertial system for automotive)
- Newmont Mining Co., USA (Airborne Gravimetry System)
- University of Calgary, Dept. of Geomatics Engineering (Land Inertial Survey System)
By 2006 TeKnol became an innovative navigation, inertial reference and
air data sensor integration technology firm, engaged in development,
design, manufacturing, marketing, sales and support of ultra-compact
low-cost inertial navigation systems (INS) integrated with Global
Navigation Satellite System (GPS, GLONASS) for aviation, land and industrial
applications.
We not only bring to the market our innovative end-user products,
which enable real-time vehicle or person positioning, heading,
attitude and acceleration determination, but offer customized INS and
smart sensors solutions for third-party integration.
All our products are commercially available, maintenance free,
industrially made with standard quality control and customer-friendly
warranty policy. We provide our customers with long-term support.
People
Nowadays, the company staff consists from 31 persons: researchers,
engineers, management. Two doctors of science (the academic rank
higher then Ph.D.) and 7 candidates of science (equivalent of Ph.D.)
are working in TeKnol. The associated company (Macdel Electronics)
provides the electronic design and manufacturing.
The head of company development is prof. Oleg Salychev :
- Professor, Head of Navigation Systems branch at the Dept. of Gyro and Navigation in the BMSTU
- Adjunct professor – Department of Geomatics Engeneering University of Calgary
- Member of Russian Academy of Navigation Science, 1996
- Member of Russian Academy of Motion Control, 1997
- Full membership in several national and international scientific associations
related to navigation, geodesy, geophysics and surveying.
Prof. Oleg Salychev is author of several world bestselling books on inertial systems
and INS/GPS integration:
- Control System and Identification method (in Russian), 1979
- Inertial Navigation and Optimal Filtering (in Russian), 1982
- Scalar Estimation in Multydimentional Dynamical Systems (in Russian), 1984
- Wave Description of Input Disturbances in Inertial Navigation Systems Errors
Estimation, 214 pages (in Russian), 1992
- Inertial Surveying ... , 164 pages (in English), 1995
- Inertial Systems in Navigation and Geophysics (in English), 1998
- Applied Inertial Navigation: Problems and Solutions (in English), 2004
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