Strapdown Navigation Systems: Theory and Application - Second Edition

The book establishes the core principles fundamental to the analysis and design of autonomous and aided strapdown inertial navigation systems. It provides a detailed account of contemporary strapdown systems from both an analytical and a computational perspective. The book is divided into thirteen chapters and four appendices. Chapter 1 provides an overview of inertial navigation and its various forms of implementation. Chapter 2 provides a review of some key concepts in mathematics and random processes that are of importance in the subsequent chapters. Chapter 3 deals with a number of principal attitude-parameterization concepts commonly employed in strapdown system implementation and analysis. Chapter 4 establishes the basic computational equations of strapdown inertial navigation systems. Chapter 5 is devoted to the optimization of the attitude-computation function. Chapter 6 is devoted to the optimization of the velocity-computation function. Chapter 7 deals with the optimizations