Integrated positioning and navigation for aircraft automatic taxiing

Author

Chao Zhang ; Yaxin Zhang

Author_Institution

Labs. of Avionics, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

5-9 Oct. 2014

Abstract

AeroMACS has been considered as an efficient aircraft communication scheme for the phase of taxiing. In order to provide an automatic taxiing service, the positioning and navigation of the aircraft should be offered. In this paper, the AeroMACS scheme based on WiMAX is proposed for positioning and navigation. The detailed positioning algorithm is designed with the RMSE about 0.1 m. Moreover, as for mitigating the multipath interference, the magnetic sensors and GPS receiver can be employed to form the integrated positioning and navigation system in some local positions. Then, all the locations in the airport runway, parking apron and hangar can be guaranteed with the required accuracy, so that the automatic taxiing can be carried out.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; aircraft communication; aircraft navigation; interference suppression; wireless LAN; AeroMACS scheme; GPS receiver; RMSE; WiMAX; aircraft automatic taxiing service; aircraft communication scheme; aircraft navigation system; airport runway; hangar; integrated positioning; magnetic sensors; multipath interference mitigation; parking apron; Accuracy; Aircraft; Aircraft navigation; Airports; Estimation; Global Positioning System; Magnetic fields;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2014 IEEE/AIAA 33rd

Conference_Location

Colorado Springs, CO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5002-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2014.6979454

Filename

6979454