Current technologies and trends in the development of gyros used in navigation applications - A review

Recent Researches in Communications and IT - Proc. of the 15th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Communications, Part of the 15th WSEAS CSCC Multiconference, Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on CIT'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 63-68

  Edu, I R ^a   Obreja, R ^a   Grigorie, T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Applications; Gyros; Inertial navigation; Technology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT; CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; GYROS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION; INERTIAL SENSOR; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS;

APPLICATIONS; GYROSCOPES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NAVIGATION; SENSORS; TECHNOLOGY;

INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 83655203457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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