Concept Refinement of a Payload Derived Position Acquisition System for Parachute Recovery Systems

Abstract

The paper covers the continued development of a Payload Derived Position Acquisition System (PDPAS) to overcome current limitations posed on recovering the trajectory data for a generic parachute recovery system (PRS). The PDPAS is an instrumentation set and software algorithm that is to be installed onto PRS in order to estimate PRS state vector parameters in real-time for testing and operational use. The development of the PDPAD has progressed to a point where it is providing quality data and is ready for development into usable instrumentation package. The paper discusses the concept of the PDPAS, the first implementation of the PDPAS, changes made to the PDPAS due to continued development, and the steps needed for the PDPAS to be a validated instrumentation package.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 07, 2009
Accession Number
ADA517946

Entities

People

  • Oleg A. Yakimenko
  • Ryan D. Tiaden

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acquisition
  • Aeronautics
  • Astronautics
  • Control Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Engineering
  • Euler Angles
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Instrumentation
  • Navigation
  • Parachutes
  • Recovery
  • Trajectories

Readers

  • Aerial Delivery - Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design