Shifting the inertial navigation paradigm with MEMS technology

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 137, Issue , 2010, Pages 269-288

  Crain II, Timothy P ^a   Bishop, Robert H ^b   Brady, Tye ^c  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; INERTIAL NAVIGATIONS; INERTIAL SENSOR; MASS ALLOCATION; MEMS ACCELEROMETER; MEMS SENSORS; MEMS TECHNOLOGY; MEMSDEVICES; MULTI-UNIT; PARADIGM SHIFTS; RATE SENSORS; SENSOR ERRORS; STATE OF THE ART; SYSTEMS LEVELS;

ACCELEROMETERS; EARTH (PLANET); FAULT DETECTION; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SENSORS;

EID: 80053365293     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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