A low-cost navigation system integrator has been developed for the Canadian Navy. This system, AN/SYN-501 (MINS-B II), uses a 17-state, dynamically reconfigurable extended Kalman filter, along with extensive error detection and correction algorithms. Designed to improve the navigation accuracy, efficiency, and reliability onboard major ocean-going vessels, this system optimally integrates most standard marine navigation sensors and systems: GPS (Global Positioning System), Transit, Omega, Loran-C, Gyrocompass, Speedlog and operator-entered sextant measurements or position fixes. The MINS is designed to be very flexible, with microprocessor-controlled interfaces to collect sensor input from a wide variety of brands and models of these systems and sensors. The integration software has comprehensive failure-mode capability, allowing operation with any viable subset of these inputs. The author briefly describes the salient points of the MINS integration scheme and presents some recent sea-trial results.


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    Title :

    MINS-B II: a marine integrated navigation system


    Additional title:

    MINS-BII: Ein integriertes Navigations-System fuer die Marine


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1988


    Size :

    10 Seiten, 16 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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