Development of a TRN/INS/GPS integrated navigation system

Author

Peters, Michael A G

Author_Institution

Nat. Aerosp. Lab., Amsterdam, Netherlands

fYear

1992

fDate

23-27 Mar 1992

Firstpage

202

Lastpage

208

Abstract

The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) has been awarded a contract by the Netherlands Ministry of Defense for the investigation and development of a TRN/INS/GPS (terrain reference navigation system/inertial navigation system/Global Positioning System) integrated navigation system. The integrated system should be capable of providing degraded modes. The three navigation sensors and a dedicated processing unit (for data merging) were configured around a MIL-STD-1553B digital data bus. Due to the inherent complexity of the integrated navigation system, much emphasis was given to careful testing of this system. Initial flight test results indicate that the integrated navigation system showed good performance, even when the performance of the individual sensors was deteriorated

Keywords

aircraft instrumentation; inertial navigation; military standards; military systems; radionavigation; satellite relay systems; MIL-STD-1553B digital data bus; TRN/INS/GPS integrated navigation system; data merging; dedicated processing unit; flight test results; navigation sensors; performance; terrain reference navigation system/inertial navigation system/Global Positioning System; Aerospace testing; Contracts; Degradation; Global Positioning System; Laboratories; Merging; Navigation; Robustness; Sensor systems; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Position Location and Navigation Symposium, 1992. Record. 500 Years After Columbus - Navigation Challenges of Tomorrow. IEEE PLANS '92., IEEE

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0468-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLANS.1992.185843

Filename

185843