Civilian vehicle navigation: Required alignment of the inertial sensors for acceptable navigation accuracies

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3402-3412

  Syed, Zainab F ^a,b   Aggarwal, Priyanka ^a,c   Niu, Xiaoji ^a,d   El Sheimy, Naser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NovAtel Inc   (Canada)

^c AeroMechanical Systems   (Canada)

^d SiRF Technology Inc   (China)

Author keywords

Alignment; Global Positioning System (GPS) and inertial navigation system (INS) integration; Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial sensors; Portable navigation system

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ALIGNMENT; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; ERRORS; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GYROSCOPES; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; MECHATRONICS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROMECHANICS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SENSORS; SMART SENSORS; VEHICLES;

ALIGNMENT ACCURACIES; CIVILIAN VEHICLES; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNITS; INERTIAL SENSORS; INERTIAL SYSTEMS; INITIAL ALIGNMENTS; MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS) INERTIAL SENSORS; MISALIGNMENT ERRORS; NAVIGATION ACCURACIES; OF SENSORS; PORTABLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM; SIZE REQUIREMENTS; VEHICLE BODIES;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 57049096432     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2008.921616     Document Type: Article

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