Development of the Extended Kalman Filter for the Advanced Completely Integrated Reference Instrumentation System (CIRIS)

Abstract

The Completely Integrated Reference Instrumentation System (CIRIS) was developed by the Central Inertial Guidance Test Facility (CIGTF) at Holloman AFB, NM. The CIRIS system is an inertial navigation system (INS) aided with line-of-sight range and range-rate measurements from surveyed ground transponders. The information from the measurement and INS data is combined using an extended Kalman filter to produce an accurate estimate of the INS position and velocity errors. The accurate CIRIS aircraft position and velocity data is used as a baseline reference to determine the performance capabilities of proposed aircraft navigation systems. The new aircraft navigation systems projected in the next five years will attain accuracies approaching the level of the current CIRIS system. In order to test these systems, the accuracy of CIRIS will be increased through the addition of aiding measurements from the Global Positioning System (GPS). Keywords: Inertial navigation system, Kalman filter, Covariance analysis, Ciris, Global positioning system. Theses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA206083

Entities

People

  • Joseph K. Solomon

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Geometry
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Guidance
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Kalman Filters
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Operating Systems
  • Radar
  • Surveys
  • World Geodetic System

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Inertial Navigation Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Space