Improved Knight method based on narrowed search space for instantaneous GPS attitude determination

Navigation, Journal of the Institute of Navigation

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 111-119

  Li, Yong ^a   Zhang, Kefei ^b   Grenfell, Ron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; RELIABILITY THEORY;

GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS; INTEGER AMBIGUITIES; KNIGHT ALGORITHMS; KNIGHT METHOD;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 33750362808     PISSN: 00281522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-4296.2005.tb01737.x     Document Type: Article

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