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Fast Compass Alignment for Strapdown Inertial Navigation System
Jin Sun1, Dengyin Zhang1, *, Xiaoye Shi1, Fei Ding1, 2
1 School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication, Nanjing, 21003, China.
2 Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
* Corresponding Author: Dengyin Zhang. Email: .
Computers, Materials & Continua 2020, 65(2), 1349-1360. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.011459
Received 09 May 2020; Accepted 06 June 2020; Issue published 20 August 2020
Abstract
Initial alignment is the precondition for strapdown inertial navigation system
(SINS) to navigate. Its two important indexes are accuracy and rapidity, the accuracy of
the initial alignment is directly related to the working accuracy of SINS, but in selfalignment, the two indexes are often contradictory. In view of the limitations of
conventional data processing algorithms, a novel method of compass alignment based on
stored data and repeated navigation calculation for SINS is proposed. By means of data
storage, the same data is used in different stages of the initial alignment, which is
beneficial to shorten the initial alignment time and improve the alignment accuracy. In
order to verify the correctness of the compass algorithm based on stored data and
repeated navigation calculation, the simulation experiment was done. In summary, when
the computer performance is sufficiently high, the compass alignment method based on
the stored data and the forward and reverse navigation calculation can effectively
improve the alignment speed and improve the alignment accuracy.
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Cite This Article
J. Sun, D. Zhang, X. Shi and F. Ding, "Fast compass alignment for strapdown inertial navigation system,"
Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 65, no.2, pp. 1349–1360, 2020. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.011459