Abstract
Gimballed Inertial Navigation Systems(GINS) are sophisticated autonomous electro-mechanical systems which supply the position, velocity and attitude of the vehicle on which they are mounted. In order to maintain accuracy of outputs, the GINS are required to regularly calibrate senior errors. However, existing calibration methods take up a long time due to multiposition alignments needed to increase accuracy. A particular system formulation for calibration of a GINS is proposed to enhance system observability and thus to expedite calibration procedure. Performance of the proposed calibration method is compared with existing methods such as Schuler test and muliposition alignment. Simulation studies show the proposed system formulation associated with a suggested suboptimal filter is accurate as well as efficient in error identification essential to GINS calibration.