Below you will find the Fanbeam and Artemis range/bearing drivers and telegram formats supported by EIVA NaviPac, together with the telegram formats the Fanbeam (Renishaw/MDL) and Artemis (Guidance Marine) units themselves can transmit. Driver names, EIVA IDs and NaviPac-side strings are taken from the NaviPac Interfaces manual found in the Help section of the software.

Input drivers (surface navigation – range/bearing)

These read a position-reference unit into NaviPac. Flagging the instrument as simulated (network socket) lets NaviPac generate realistic data without hardware.


Driver 

EIVA ID 

String / format 

Artemis – driver 2 

15 

“A<Azimuth><CR><LF>”, “D<Range><CR><LF>”, or “<Azimuth><Range><Status><CR><LF>”, or “<Code><Range><Azimuth><CR><LF>” 

Artemis MK3 

7 

Artemis range/bearing telegrams (as above) 

Artemis MK4 

8 

Artemis range/bearing telegrams (as above) 

Fanbeam 

9 

“RrrrrrBbbbbbASF<CR><LF>” – MK II format 

Fanbeam – driver 2 

16 

“nn rrrr.rr bbb.bb<CR><LF>” – Standard MDL 

Remote-vessel positioning drivers (Fanbeam or Artemis)

The manual notes: “Positioning remote vessel using Fanbeam or Artemis. Selection between various standard formats.” Two drivers cover this – Fanbeam – remote (EIVA ID 407) and Fanbeam – remote 2 (EIVA ID 414). The selectable standard formats are:

Format name 

String 

MDL Standard 

NN RRRR.RR BBB.BB 

Legacy Fanbeam MKII 

Rrrrrr bbbbb 

Kongsberg Simrad Standard 

BBBRRR00F (BCD) 

Kongsberg Simrad Legacy / Artemis KA-BCD(.001) 

BBBRRRF (BCD) 

Cegelec Standard / Artemis ASCII-17 

RRRRRR BBBBBB N 

Cegelec Legacy / Artemis ASCII-16 

RRRRRR BBBBB N 

Nautronix Standard 

00BBBBBRRRRR 

Nautronix Legacy 

00BBBBBRRRR 

For reference, the related Golf III Laser driver (EIVA ID 408) uses <code>RRRRAAAA<code>RRRRAAAA – fixed 18 characters.

Output driver (NaviPac → external system)

Driver 

EIVA ID 

Output 

DP Out: Artemis BCD 

685 

Range/bearing to the selected waypoint in KA-BCD(.01) format. 

Fanbeam (Renishaw / MDL)

The Fanbeam Controller's Data Output → Output Format lets the operator pick the outgoing telegram. The DP interface is over RS232 / RS422 / Ethernet / current loop. The selectable telegram families are:

Format 

String 

MDL Standard / Renishaw Standard ASCII 

NN RRRR.RR BBB.BB<CR><LF>  (default when no format flag is set) 

Legacy Fanbeam MK II 

RrrrrrBbbbbbASF<CR><LF>  (R=range, B=bearing, A=accuracy, S=status, F=strength) 

Simrad Binary (Kongsberg Simrad) 

binary range/bearing message 

Artemis emulation 

Artemis-style telegram, so a DP port configured for Artemis can read Fanbeam 

Field key

  • Rrrrrr – range (R = identifier + value)

  • Bbbbbb – bearing/angle (B = identifier + value)

  • A – accuracy

  • S – status

  • F – signal-strength / quality flag

  • N in the Cegelec/Artemis ASCII formats is a status/quality character; the BCD formats pack bearing then range as binary-coded decimal.