A highly accurate positioning and orientation system based on the usage of four-cluster fibre optic gyros

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Abstract

A highly accurate positioning and orientation technique based on four-cluster fibre optic gyros (FOGs) is presented. The four-cluster FOG inertial measurement unit (IMU) comprises three low-precision FOGs, one static high-precision FOG and three accelerometers. To realize high-precision positioning and orientation, the static alignment (north-seeking) before vehicle manoeuvre was divided into a low-precision self-alignment phase and a high-precision north-seeking (online calibration) phase. The high-precision FOG measurement information was introduced to obtain high-precision azimuth alignment (north-seeking) result and achieve online calibration of the low-precision three-cluster FOG. The results of semi-physical simulation were presented to validate the availability and utility of the highly accurate positioning and orientation technique based on the four-cluster FOGs.

Original languageEnglish
Article number045004
JournalMeasurement Science and Technology
Volume24
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2013

Keywords

  • fibre optic gyro (FOG)
  • ground-based missile
  • high-precision north-seeking
  • mobile launching
  • online calibration

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