Altitude Damping of Space-Stable Inertial Navigation Systems

Autor: Charles E. Hutchinson, Raymond A. Nash
Rok vydání: 1973
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. :18-27
ISSN: 0018-9251
DOI: 10.1109/taes.1973.309696
Popis: In order to stabilize the altitude calculation in an inertial navigation system, an altimeter is commonly used. In a conventional local-level mechanization, this is generally accomplished by correcting the vertical channel integrators with the difference between the inertial system and altimeter indication of vertical position. However, in a space-stable system the procedure is not as clear since a vertical channel is not physically present. Three altitude damping mechanizations for a space-stable inertial navigation system are proposed. The equivalent local-level mechanizations are then found by comparing error propagation equations in a common coordinate frame.
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