Advances in Techniques and Technologies for Air Vehicle Navigation and Guidance

Abstract

In the 1990's and beyond, air vehicles will be designed on the basis of functionally integrated systems and the operation of such aircraft will also be highly integrated. Past experience has clearly shown that interfacing classical subsystems can introduce critical compromises in overall systems performance, availability, safety and cost. Future systems will be designed and built by means of a new process where the physical characteristics of the resulting systems may not have any resemblance to today's subsystems or line- replaceable units. The navigation and guidance aspects of future air vehicles cover a broad spectrum of important technical issues to meet the operational requirements with improved capability an increased survivability for reasonable costs. The systems increasingly depend upon the use of advanced sensor and signal processing techniques and particularly on software to provide the intelligence required for their functional performance. This symposium was intended to deal with advances in techniques and technologies to design, build and test such navigation and guidance systems. Keywords: Terrain reference navigation, Image processing, Global positioning system, Algorithms, Sensors, Flight control, NATO furnished, Ring laser gyros, Solid state, Synthetic aperture radar.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA217512

Entities

Organizations

  • AGARD

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Control Systems Engineering
  • Guidance
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space