Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 THE CONCEPT OF INERTIAL NAVIGATION
1.2 TYPES OF INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
1.3 A CRITIQUE O F PREVIOUS ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
1.4 A UNIFIED APPROACH TO THE ERROR ANALYSIS
2 Mathematical Notation and
2.1 NOTATIONAL CONVENTIONS
2.2 THE TIME DERIVATIVE OF THE DIRECTION
2.3 COLUMN MATRIX TlME DERIVATIVES
2.4 ANALOGIES TO VECTOR ANALYSIS
2.5 PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES
2.6 SYMBOLOGY
3 Reference Frames
3.1 INERTIAL FRAME (i frame; x, y, z axes)
3.2 GEOGRAPHIC FRAME (n frame; N, E, D axes)
3.3 EARTH FRAME (e frame; x,, ye, ze axes)
3.4 GEOCENTRIC FRAME
3.5 BODY FRAME
3.6 TANGENT FRAME
3.7 REFERENCE FRAME RELATIONSHIPS
3.8 PLATFORM, ACCELEROMETER, AND GYRO FRAMES
4 Geometry of the Earth
4.1 T H E GEOCENTRIC POSITION VECTOR
4.2 THE DEVIATION OF THE NORMAL
4.3 THE EARTH RADIUS MAGNITUDE
4.4 THE EARTH'S GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
4.5 THE EARTH'S GRAVITY FlELD
4.6 ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS FOR THE SPECIFIC FORCE
5 Single-Degree-of-Freedom Gyroscope Performance
5.1 PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
5.2 DYNAMIC MODEL FOR THE SDF GYRO
5.3 UNCERTAINTY TORQUE COMPENSATION
5.4 INSTRUMENT A N D SYSTEM REDUNDANCY AND
6 The Space-Stabilized Terrestrial
6.1 DESCRIPTION O F SYSTEM
6.2 MECHANIZATION EQUATIONS
6.3 ERROR ANALYSIS
7 The Local- Level Terrestrial
7.1 DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM
7.2 MECHANIZATION EQUATIONS
7.3 ERROR ANALYSIS
7.4 T H E TWO-ACCELEROMETER LOCAL-LEVEL .SYSTEM
8 Development of a Unified Error
8.1 A GENERAL TERRESTRIAL NAVIGATOR MODEL
8.2 GENERALIZED MECHANIZATION AND ERROR
8.3 CANONICAL FORM OF THE ERROR EQUATIONS
8.4 SPECIALIZATION OF THE GENERALIZED THEORY
8.5 EFFECT OF ALTIMETER UNCERTAINTY
9 Self-Alignment Techniques
9.1 ANALYTIC COARSE ALIGNMENT METHOD
9.2 PHYSICAL GYROCOMPASS ALIGNMENT7
9.3 ALIGNMENT OF STRAPDOWN SYSTEMS
Appendix A Development of a System Error
A.1 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
A.2 DERIVATION O F SYSTEM DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
A.3 SO-LUTION OF SYSTEM DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
A.4 APPROXIMATIONS TO THE SOLUTIONS
A.5 DEVELOPMENT OF AN ERROR MODEL
Appendix B State Transition Matrix for Inertial
B.1 FORMULATION IN STATE SPACE NOTATION
B.2 STATE TRANSITION MATRIX
8.3 STATE TRANSITION MATRIX FOR SHORT
8.4 EXAMPLES
Appendix C Statistical Error Analysis Methods
C.1 RESPONSE O F A LINEAR SYSTEM TO RANDOM INRUTS
C.2 RESPONSE TO THE ENSEMBLE OF
C.3 RESPONSE TO W H I T E NOISE
References
Index