Aided Navigation : GPS with High Rate Sensors

Title: Aided Navigation : GPS with High Rate Sensors
Author: Jay Farrell
ISBN: 0071493298 / 9780071493291
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 530
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 2008
Availability: 45-60 days

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Design Cutting-Edge Aided Navigation Systems for Advanced Commercial & Military Applications

Aided Navigation is a design-oriented textbook and guide to building aided navigation systems for smart cars, precision farming vehicles, smart weapons, unmanned aircraft, mobile robots, and other advanced applications. The navigation guide contains two parts explaining the essential theory, concepts, and tools, as well as the methodology in aided navigation case studies with sufficient detail to serve as the basis for application-oriented analysis and design.

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Filled with detailed illustrations and examples, this expert design tool takes you step-by-step through coordinate systems, deterministic and stochastic modeling, optimal estimation, and navigation system design. Authoritative and comprehensive, Aided Navigation features :

End-of-chapter exercises throughout Part I
In-depth case studies of aided navigation systems
Numerous Matlab-based examples
Appendices define notation, review linear algebra, and discuss GPS receiver interfacing
Source code and sensor data to support examples is available through www.mhprofessional.com

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About the Author

Part I : Theory
Chapter 1. : Introduction
Chapter 2. : Reference Frames
Chapter 3. : Deterministic Systems
Chapter 4. : Stochastic Processes
Chapter 5. : Optimal State Estimation
Chapter 6. : Performance Analysis
Chapter 7. : Navigation System Design

Part II : Application
Chapter 8. : Global Positioning System
Chapter 9. : GPS Aided Encoder-Based Dead-Reckoning
Chapter 10. : AHRS
Chapter 11. : Aided Inertial Navigation
Chapter 12. : LBL and Doppler Aided INS

Appendix A : Notation
Appendix B : Linear Algebra Review
Appendix C : Calculation of GPS Satellite Position & Velocity
Appendix D : Quaternions
Bibliography
Index