GPS/INS/Seeker Integrated Navigation System for the Case of GPS Blockage

When GPS blockage occurs for a loosely coupled GPS/INS system, its navigation error diverges. To deal with such cases, this paper introduces an integration scheme for GPS, INS, and an image sensor. The proposed integration scheme is attractive in that it accomplished the position and velocity accuracy improvement by the angular information only. The angular information is provided by the gimbal angles of the image sensor. A realistic scenario is studied by a simulation to demonstrate that the GPS/INS/Image integrated navigation system works effectively.