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Aircraft navigation using MEMS IMU and ground radio beacons

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Navigation of a small-sized aircraft is discussed using integrated data from MEMS-based IMU and receiver of ground radio beacon signals within an integrated tightly-coupled orientation and navigation system (IONS). IONS algorithms and errors in orientation and navigation parameters are considered both during prestart IMU error calibration with external aiding over a limited time interval and during simulation of aircraft flight along a preset path. Data in IONS are integrated using the extended Kalman filter (EKF). In simulation modeling of IONS functioning algorithms in Matlab (Simulink) we used data of bench tests of MEMS sensors developed by Elektropribor.

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  1. Concern CSRI Elektropribor, JSC, St. Petersburg, Russia

    G. I. Emel’yantsev, A. P. Stepanov & B. A. Blazhnov

  2. ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    G. I. Emel’yantsev & A. P. Stepanov

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Original Russian Text © G.I. Emel’yantsev, A.P. Stepanov, B.A. Blazhnov, 2017, published in Giroskopiya i Navigatsiya, 2017, No. 1, pp. 3–7.

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Emel’yantsev, G.I., Stepanov, A.P. & Blazhnov, B.A. Aircraft navigation using MEMS IMU and ground radio beacons. Gyroscopy Navig. 8, 173–180 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S207510871703004X

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