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Altimeter and Velocimeter-/Optical-Aided Inertial Navigation Technology

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Spacecraft Autonomous Navigation Technologies Based on Multi-source Information Fusion

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Inertial navigation has been successfully applied in soft landing missions. The inertial navigation error is gradually increased caused by initial navigation error and inertial measurement unit (IMU) measurement error. In order to improve the navigation accuracy of the lander relative to the celestial body surface, direct measurements of the lander relative to the celestial body surface are usually used to correct inertial navigation results. Candidate sensors include altimeter, velocimeter, and optical imaging sensor. This chapter focuses on the altimeter-/velocimeter-aided inertial navigation and optical-aided inertial navigation for soft landing missions.

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  1. Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering, CAST, Beijing, China

    Dayi Wang

  2. Science and Technology on Space Intelligent Control Laboratory, Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, CAST, Beijing, China

    Maodeng Li, Xiangyu Huang & Xiaowen Zhang

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Wang, D., Li, M., Huang, X., Zhang, X. (2021). Altimeter and Velocimeter-/Optical-Aided Inertial Navigation Technology. In: Spacecraft Autonomous Navigation Technologies Based on Multi-source Information Fusion. Space Science and Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4879-6_10

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