Accession Number:

ADA289380

Title:

The Design and Analysis of Integrated Navigation Systems Using Real INS and GPS Data.

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis,

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Evans, Curtis D.

Report Date:

1994-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

164.0

Abstract:

An extended Kalman filter EKF is used to combine the information obtained from a Global Positioning System GPS receiver and an Inertial Navigation System INS to provide a navigation solution. This research compares the results of an actual tightly-coupled GPSINS integrated system with those obtained in computer simulation. Differences between the simulation and actual hardware results, such as navigation solutions and tuning values, are shown in the research. An analysis of various GPS models was studied to determine the best representation for a system truth model. Measurement updates and their effects upon position accuracies was considered and preliminary research was conducted to determine when a feedback implementation was advantageous over a feedforward approach. The results suggest that the computer simulations being used at the Air Force Institute of Technology AFIT produce better navigation solutions than are actually possible with real hardware. Alternate system truth models were found which would estimate the errors of an actual system more accurately with less computational loading.

Descriptors:

• *GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
• *INERTIAL NAVIGATION
• COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• SIMULATION
• MEASUREMENT
• POSITION(LOCATION)
• AIR FORCE
• INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
• COMPUTATIONS
• MODELS
• KALMAN FILTERING
• ACCURACY
• THESES
• SOLUTIONS(GENERAL)
• NAVIGATION
• TUNING
• VALUE

Subject Categories:

• Air Navigation and Guidance

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE