TDRS based navigation system for flight vehicles in near space

Author

Fang, Zou

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Eng. Coll. of Armed Police Force, Xi´´an, China

fYear

2011

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A TDRS based navigation system for flight vehicles in near space is proposed. The navigation system, called TDRSI, integrates TDRS and INS to overcome the blackout phenomenon in near space by selecting a very high carrier frequency for the communication link. TDRSI adopts the Kalman filtering algorithm which utilizing TDRS pseudorange information to improve INS navigation results. Navigation results are transmitted to the ground through the TDRS link, thus both the flight vehicle and the ground command and control center can obtain navigation results.

Keywords

Kalman filters; aerospace instrumentation; inertial navigation; satellite navigation; space vehicles; INS; Kalman filtering algorithm; TDRS based navigation system; TDRS pseudorange information; blackout phenomenon; flight vehicles; inertial navigation system; near space; tracking and data relay satellite; Command and control systems; Global Positioning System; Mathematical model; Satellites; Space vehicles; INS; TDRS; blackout; near space;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing, Communications and Computing (ICSPCC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0893-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSPCC.2011.6061654

Filename

6061654