Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Navigation system
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Application No.: US15784255Application Date: 2017-10-16
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Publication No.: US11041724B2Publication Date: 2021-06-22
- Inventor: Alan Malvern , Nicholas R. Wilkinson
- Applicant: Atlantic Inertial Systems, Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Plymouth
- Assignee: Atlantic Inertial Systems, Limited
- Current Assignee: Atlantic Inertial Systems, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Plymouth
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Priority: GB1618940 20161109
- Main IPC: G01C21/00
- IPC: G01C21/00 ; G01C21/16 ; G01C21/04

Abstract:
A navigation system comprising: an inertial navigation system arranged to output a first position estimate; a terrain based navigation unit arranged to output a second position estimate; a gravity based navigation unit arranged to output a third position estimate; a stored gravity map arranged to receive a position and to output gravity information for that position; and an iterative algorithm unit arranged to determine an INS error state in each iteration; wherein in each iteration the iterative algorithm unit is arranged to: receive the first position estimate, the second position estimate, and the third position estimate; determine a gravity corrected position estimate based on the first position estimate, the INS error state and the gravity information; and update the INS error state for the next iteration based on the INS error state, the gravity corrected position estimate, the second position estimate and the third position estimate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180128616A1 NAVIGATION SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-05-10
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