DocumentCode
2407965
Title
Inertial navigation-past, present, and future
Author
King, A.D.
Author_Institution
GEC-Marconi Navigation & Electro-Opt. Syst. Div., Edinburgh, UK
fYear
1997
fDate
35482
Firstpage
42430
Lastpage
42438
Abstract
The author describes the principles of inertial navigation (IN) at a level needed to understand the significance of the current and future trends. IN is simply a form of `dead reckoning´. A `gimballed platform´ which can measure an aircraft´s position, velocity, acceleration, attitude, and heading is examined
Keywords
inertial navigation; acceleration; attitude; dead reckoning; gimballed platform; heading; inertial navigation; position; velocity;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Airborne Navigation Systems Workshop (Digest No. 1997/169), IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
London
Type
conf
DOI
10.1049/ic:19970908
Filename
637209
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