Inertial Navigation System Standardized Software Development. Volume 1. Introduction and Summary

Abstract

A navigation software simulation program was developed, checked and verified as a part of an investigation into the feasibility of standardization of software for aircraft Inertial Navigation Systems (INS). The program can be used to simulate the unaided INS navigation errors resulting from a partiular mechanization of the navigation equations on a given digital computer. Technical data required for the Simulator Program design was obtained from survey of typical INS navigation software. The survey results revealed commonality in navigation computations employed in various INS, configurations, the gravity models approximations used in the computations, the commonality in the frames and the transformations symbology employed in the computations and the software interface between the INS computations and the Avionics-System computations. The navigation software simulation program is coded in Fortran IV for use on either IBM-360 or CDC-6600 computers. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA062802

Entities

People

  • Janusz Sciegienny
  • John Wexler
  • Peter Kampion
  • Roy Nurse

Organizations

  • Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Computations
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Rate
  • Equations
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Measurement
  • Mechanization
  • Navigation
  • Navigation Computers
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.
  • Software Engineering.