• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.10
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• pp.836-843
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• 2017

In lunar exploration, the necessity of utilizing rover is verified by the examples of the Soviet Union and China and the similar Mars missions of the United States. In order to achieve the successful management of a lunar rover, a high precision navigation technique is required, and accordingly, high precision initial alignment is essential. Even though it is general to perform initial alignment in a steady state, a multiposition alignment technique is applied when high performance is needed. On the lunar surface, however, the performance of initial alignment decreases from that on Earth, and it cannot be improved by applying multiposition alignment method owing to certain constraints of lunar environment. In this paper, a sun sensor aided multiposition alignment technique is proposed. The measurement model for a sun vector is established, and its observability analysis is performed. The performance of the proposed algorithm is verified through computer simulations, and the results show the estimation performance is improved dramatically.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.62-67
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• 1998

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.