Kalman filter configurations for a low-cost loosely integrated inertial navigation system on an airship

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1509-1518

  Bijker, Johan ^a   Steyn, Willem ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Airship; Extended kalman filter; Inertial navigation; Position and attitude estimation

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; CONTROL THEORY; ESTIMATION; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; VECTORS; WAVE FILTERS;

AIRSHIP; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SENSORS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER; GPS RECEIVERS; GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATIONS; GRAVITY VECTORS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM (INS); INERTIAL NAVIGATIONS; MEMS ACCELEROMETERS; ON-BOARD COMPUTER; POSITION AND ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; POSITION ESTIMATES; PROCESSING POWER; REAL-TIME NAVIGATION; RUNNING-IN;

AIRSHIPS;

EID: 50649086354     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2008.04.011     Document Type: Article

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