An EHW architecture for real-time GPS attitude determination based on parallel genetic algorithm

Proceedings - NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 133-141

  Xu, Jiangning ^a   Arslan, T ^a   Wang, Qing ^b   Wan, Dejun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aircraft navigation; Genetic algorithms; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Marine vehicles; Position measurement; Real time systems; Receiving antennas; Space vehicles; Very large scale integration

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HARDWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NASA; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; POSITION MEASUREMENT; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; TRACKING (POSITION); VLSI CIRCUITS;

AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION; ALGORITHM ARCHITECTURES; GPS ATTITUDE DETERMINATION; HARDWARE COMPLEXITY; MARINE VEHICLES; PARALLEL GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE CONSTRAINTS; SPACE VEHICLES;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 84949236618     PISSN: 15506029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EH.2002.1029877     Document Type: Conference Paper

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