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Estimating quantum limits on SINS accuracy based on accurate error equations

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The paper is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Kuznetsov and A.Yu. Ishlinskii, Academicians of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, to the 100th anniversary of Sagnac experiment, and to the 50th anniversary of laser gyroscopy

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Accurate error equations for strapdown interial navigation system (SINS) are derived partly with account of nonideal onboard time scale. Comments are given on specific features of SINS behaviour unnoticed earlier using approximate equations of INS errors. Error equations are first proposed to improve SINS accuracy as well as to analyze it. Limits on SINS accuracy due to quantum noise of Sagnac effect gyros such as laser and fiber-optic gyros and atom interferometers on de Broiglie waves [1] are estimated.

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Krobka, N.I. Estimating quantum limits on SINS accuracy based on accurate error equations. Gyroscopy Navig. 5, 9–19 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075108714010064

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