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Aerospace Engineering

Air Force Institute of Technology

Theses/Dissertations

2003

Global Positioning System

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Tightly-Coupled Image-Aided Inertial Navigation System Via A Kalman Filter, Michael G. Giebner Mar 2003

Tightly-Coupled Image-Aided Inertial Navigation System Via A Kalman Filter, Michael G. Giebner

Theses and Dissertations

Inertial navigation systems and GPS systems have revolutionized the world of navigation. Inertial systems are incapable of being jammed and are the backbone of most navigation systems. GPS is highly accurate over long periods of time, and it is an excellent aid to inertial navigation systems. However, as a military force we must be prepared to deal with the denial of the GPS signal. This thesis seeks to determine it, via simulation, it is viable to aid an INS with visual measurements.


Development And Simulation Of A Pseudolite-Based Flight Reference System, Terry J. Bouska Mar 2003

Development And Simulation Of A Pseudolite-Based Flight Reference System, Terry J. Bouska

Theses and Dissertations

Current flight reference systems are vulnerable to GPS jamming and also lack the accuracy required to test new systems. Pseudolites can augment flight reference systems by improving accuracy, especially in the presence of GPS jamming. This thesis evaluates a pseudolite-based flight reference system which applies and adapts carrier-phase differential GPS techniques. The algorithm developed in this thesis utilizes an extended Kalman filter along with carrier-phase ambiguity resolution techniques. A simulation of the pseudolite-based positioning system realistically models measurement noise, multipath, pseudolite position errors, and tropospheric delay. A comparative evaluation of the algorithms performance for single and widelane frequency measurements is …