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System for aligning the inertial unit of a carried vehicle on that of a carrier vehicle

US5150856A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 29, 1991
Grant dateSep 29, 1992
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Expiry dateOct 29, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01C25/005
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The system may be used, for example, to initialize the inertial unit of a missile from the inertial unit of a vehicle carrying the missile. According to the invention, a servo-control circuit is provided for slaving data in the missile inertial unit on data from the carrier inertial unit, together with a Kalman filter connected in parallel with said servo-control circuit and designed to identify harmonization errors between the two inertial units.

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