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Inertia Navigation Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

E. W. Anderson
E. W. Anderson
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(Sperry Gyroscope Company)
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The object of this paper is to present various practical solutions to the problems of inertia navigation in a descriptive rather than a mathematical form. Inertia navigation is an automatic bump of locality, a dead-reckoning device which, starting from a known point, seeks to find position. Other dead-reckoning devices measure speed, which is only relative to the fluid sea or air. Inertia navigation measures accelerations, which are absolute, and hence builds up a measure of speed. The accelerometer is, therefore, a good starting point for our survey.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , July 1958 , pp. 231 - 258
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1958

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