Aircraft Tracking with Dual TACAN

Abstract

This thesis addresses the problem of determining aircraft position during flight given noisy and biased measurements from a barometric altimeter and two tactical air navigation (TACAN) transceivers. A Kalman smoother is developed to perform post-flight data processing on the measurement data. The smoother estimates aircraft position, velocity, and acceleration as well as biases in the measurements. Since actual flight test data is not available, computer simulations examine the performance of this tracking technique. The simulated flight includes low and high-speed turns, constant rate ascents, descents, and accelerations. The tracking algorithm tracked the aircraft inertial navigation system used by the 4950th Test Wing in another flight test program showed a position error growth rate of 2000 meters per hour.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA202647

Entities

People

  • Christopher J. Mccormack

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Navigation
  • Aircrafts
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Estimators
  • Flight Paths
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Kalman Filters
  • Measurement
  • Navigation

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Geodesy