Low Altitude Navigation Augmentation System.

Abstract

The Low Altitude Navigation Augmentation Concept provides the pilot with an electronic map display on the aircraft's HUD, so that head down operations (looking at maps or moving map displays) are not required. In addition to the display concept, bearing measurements to known landmarks can be utilized to update the navigation system and also to estimate errors between the navigation system coordinate frame and the map coordinate frame. The concept for the LANA was developed by CSDL under IR&D funding to determine the lowest performance INS usable in the LANA configuration. The simulation configuration described in this plan, however, utilizes higher performance equipment; since the higher performance equipment will be procured for the F-16 and A-10 aircraft. In this report, a plan is developed to simulate the LANA concept on an Air Force simulator. The simulation will be used to verify both system performance and pilot work load under realistic flight conditions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA119700

Entities

People

  • D. Alexander Koso

Organizations

  • Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Altimeters
  • Altitude
  • Databases
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Low Altitude
  • Navigation
  • Sea Level
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Standards

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Geodesy
  • Inertial Navigation Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems