{"title":"Attitude determination concepts for the Space Station Freedom","authors":"B. Jnes","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.1990.66162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.1990.66162","url":null,"abstract":"The requirements, technical approach, and key features of the attitude determination system (ADS) being developed for the Space Station Freedom are described. Use of current technology provides new capabilities for all attitude autonomous operation and rapid determination of attitude in a debris-filled environment. The ADS is implemented using star trackers with fixed mosaic array detectors and inertial sensors based on laser gyro technology. Star catalog characteristics, star identification techniques, the functional implementation of the ADS system, and the results of preliminary covariance performance analyses are presented. Covariance analysis indicates that the stringent accuracy requirements of the Space Station can be met with the baseline system. The automated ADS mechanization provides rapid attitude acquisition from any orientation where stars are visible; astronaut intervention is not required. The inertial sensors and the star trackers are on-orbit replaceable, are highly reliable, and promise long-life operation.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":156436,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Symposium on Position Location and Navigation. A Decade of Excellence in the Navigation Sciences","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127313160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ISS: a combined terrain topography referenced navigation system","authors":"P. Lux, M. Eibert","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.1990.66216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.1990.66216","url":null,"abstract":"The ISS system was developed for navigation update based on knowledge of feature availability and range data constancy. The ISS consists basically of a laser radar sensor, a data processing unit, and the real-time capability to determine position through comparison of laser radar information with suitable reference information. A Kalman filter provides a link to the inertial navigation system (INS). This filter connects the continually available update information with the INS measurement values to estimate position, speed, and attitude. The ISS development program was initiated with algorithm development, commencing with fundamental investigations on mathematical procedures which led to laboratory computer experiments, via microprocessor realization for helicopter flight trials. Once development and testing are completed, the requirements will have been met for offering this system for the demonstration phase of the modular standoff weapon and also for the planned midlife improvement of Tornado.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":156436,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Symposium on Position Location and Navigation. A Decade of Excellence in the Navigation Sciences","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122542130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inertial+total station+GPS for high productivity surveying","authors":"P. Lloret","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.1990.66197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.1990.66197","url":null,"abstract":"It is suggested that, with advanced GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers and integrated inertial-total station surveyors, all the ingredients are available to build up a multipurpose, highly productive tool for all types of surveying: conventional land surveying, road mapping, and aerial photogrammetry. The sensors exist and are proven (Uliss 30 inertial system and the Ashtech XII 'all-in-view' GPS receiver for SAGEM). Their partial integration has already been tested (inertial-total station for land survey, inertial-GPS for air navigation). Their total integration to become a universal surveying tool is discussed. The status of the partial integration is reviewed, and architecture considerations and operational benefits of the universal surveying tool are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":156436,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Symposium on Position Location and Navigation. A Decade of Excellence in the Navigation Sciences","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133985232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GPS solves the air combat training program","authors":"C. Hoefener, R. Van Wechel","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.1990.66193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.1990.66193","url":null,"abstract":"It is shown that, by adopting today's GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking techniques for air combat training ranges, the expanded modern training requirements can be satisfied in a cost-effective manner. These requirements consist of keeping track of the precise position of up to 100 aircraft over an area of up to 25000 square miles at altitudes from ground level to 100000 ft. In addition, it is desirable to accomplish this instrumentation with a few portable groundsites and still obtain high position accuracy of all the players. It is pointed out that the existing instrumentation pods developed by the US Air Force on the Range Applications Program come very close to solving the instrumentation requirement in their present form. They contain a sophisticated datalink, a GPS receiver, and an inertial reference unit. The only unit missing is the air data sensing system, which could be added easily in the existing pod.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":156436,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Symposium on Position Location and Navigation. A Decade of Excellence in the Navigation Sciences","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133578759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terrain referenced navigation","authors":"N. Priestley","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.1990.66218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.1990.66218","url":null,"abstract":"An attempt is made to provide airframe manufacturers and system integrators with an overview of terrain referenced navigation, with particular emphasis on the principle of operation, the types of sensors, and correlation processes in use. The optimization of the sensors for terrain referenced navigation is discussed, and terrain referenced navigation is compared with the Global Positioning System (GPS). It is noted that applications of terrain referenced navigation in conjunction with the database are perhaps more important than the improved navigation accuracy. How each of these applications is implemented and the hardware implications are detailed. The three-dimensional accurate position and the database can be used for other functions such as terrain following and intelligent ground proximity warning.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":156436,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Symposium on Position Location and Navigation. A Decade of Excellence in the Navigation Sciences","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124423036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Test program for Honeywell/DND helicopter integrated navigation system (HINS)","authors":"J. Zywiel, C. Webb, H. Russell","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.1990.66179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.1990.66179","url":null,"abstract":"The advanced development model (ADM) for the helicopter integrated navigation system (HINS) is built for the Canadian Department of National Defence and tested at the Honeywell Advanced Technology Centre (ATC). The system blends the complementary strengths of its components sensors, resulting in fast alignment and optimum navigation accuracy. A failure detection isolation and reconfiguration functionality monitors sensor health, identifies failed components, and automatically reconfigures the system to optimally integrate the remaining components, thus providing a graceful degradation of performance in the event of a sensor failure. Both the test program approach and the test results are discussed. The testing has given the HINS team a high degree of confidence in the navigation system design and in the software that implements the sensor blending algorithms in the real-time system.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":156436,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Symposium on Position Location and Navigation. A Decade of Excellence in the Navigation Sciences","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114461727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INS reset removal for enhanced post-flight performance analysis","authors":"John S. A. Hepburn, J. Zywiel, D. B. Reid","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.1990.66181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.1990.66181","url":null,"abstract":"High-performance integrated inertial navigation systems (INSs) use a Kalman filter to compute the optimal navigation solution from the data provided by an INS and various navigation aids such as GPS (Global Positioning System) and Doppler. The error estimates of the Kalman filter are used to reset the INS when the navigation system operates in feedback mode. A reset removal procedure (RRP) has been developed for recovering, during post-flight processing, a high-fidelity approximation to the unaided pure inertial navigation solution that would have been produced by the INS had it not been operated in feedback mode. The procedure is of great value in carrying out a performance evaluation of an integrated INS because it effectively broadens the scope and extent of actual physical flight trials. The RRP is described and discussed, and simulation results are presented to illustrate its behavior.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":156436,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Symposium on Position Location and Navigation. A Decade of Excellence in the Navigation Sciences","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123708912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Area navigation capability in a miniature airborne GPS receiver","authors":"V. Moen, R. Bartholomew","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.1990.66191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.1990.66191","url":null,"abstract":"The area navigation (RNAV) capabilities of the Collins five-channel miniaturized airborne GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver (less than 3/8 ATR) are discussed. These capabilities include the computation of radial navigation parameters, standard air data retrieval functions, warnings with respect to preplanned flight events, and flight data storage and editing functions. Great circuit routes can be defined, deviation parameters can be computed, and station declinations can be stored (as magvar) with waypoints, allowing pilots to fly VOR/VORTAC radials. The vector approach allows the accuracy of the GPS navigation solution to be propagated into RNAV data. These functional and performance capabilities provide an approach to compliance with the Federal Radionavigation Plan.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":156436,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Symposium on Position Location and Navigation. A Decade of Excellence in the Navigation Sciences","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122034639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terrain-aided altitude computations on the AFTI/F-16","authors":"C. Baird, F. Snyder, M. Beierle","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.1990.66217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.1990.66217","url":null,"abstract":"A variety of barometric and inertial-based altitude channel implementations has been flight-tested on the US Air Force's advanced fighter technology integration (AFTI) F-16. Previous mechanizations of the altitude channel are briefly reviewed, together with flight test data describing their performance. More recently, a color moving map system with an associated digital terrain elevation database has been added to the AFTI avionics suite and is being integrated into the weapon delivery system. This digital map system includes an implementation of the Sandia inertial terrain-aided navigation (SITAN) algorithm. The design, mechanization, and preliminary flight testing of a new altitude channel implementation are described. This mechanization automatically corrects for pressure altitude bias and drift, while referencing the altitude estimate to the terrain database which forms the common reference grid for low-level maneuvering flight, targeting, and weapon delivery.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":156436,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Symposium on Position Location and Navigation. A Decade of Excellence in the Navigation Sciences","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124078321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vibrating element angular rate sensors for precision applications","authors":"W. S. Watson","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.1990.66150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.1990.66150","url":null,"abstract":"It is shown that a low-cost vibrating element angular rate sensor can be configured to meet the requirements of navigation systems. This is done by increasing the size of the sensor and/or by spinning the sensor to null balance the signal. No limiting factors to restrict the degree of improvement which can be achieved have been found. This implies that these methods could be used to meet almost any navigation system requirement for angular rate sensing.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":156436,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Symposium on Position Location and Navigation. A Decade of Excellence in the Navigation Sciences","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126265170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}