Development of an instantaneous GNSS/MEMS attitude determination system

GPS Solutions

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 129-138

  Eling, Christian ^a   Zeimetz, Philipp ^a   Kuhlmann, Heiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitude determination; Extended Kalman filter; GNSS MEMS; Integer ambiguity resolution; Shaping filter

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY FUNCTION; AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; ATTITUDE DETERMINATION; ATTITUDE DETERMINATION SYSTEMS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GNSS/MEMS; HIGH-PRECISION; INTEGER AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; KINEMATIC APPLICATION; MEASUREMENT CONDITIONS; SHAPING FILTERS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATE VECTOR; SYSTEMATIC EFFECTS; YAW ANGLES;

MEMS;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; GNSS; KALMAN FILTER; PRECISION;

EID: 84871934963     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-012-0266-8     Document Type: Article

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