Coarse alignment of a ship's strapdown inertial attitude reference system using velocity loci

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1930-1941

  Silson, Peter M G ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitude estimation; coarse alignment; GPS INS; gyrocompassing; inertial navigation

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; COARSE ALIGNMENT; GPS/INS; GYROCOMPASSING; INERTIAL NAVIGATIONS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; ESTIMATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; MANEUVERABILITY; NAVIGATION; SHIPS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 79955960729     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2113131     Document Type: Article

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