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    An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers)...
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    The LN-3 inertial navigation system is an inertial navigation system (INS) that was developed in the 1960s by Litton Industries. It equipped the Lockheed...
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    development division, had developed an astro-inertial guidance system (ANS), which could correct inertial navigation system errors with celestial observations,...
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    transform acceleration measurements into an inertial reference frame (hence the term inertial navigation) where they are integrated once to get linear...
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  • inertial platform. These systems, combining TERCOM and inertial navigation, are sometimes known as TAINS, for TERCOM-Aided Inertial Navigation System...
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    navigation system. The first inertial system is considered to be the V-2 guidance system deployed by the Germans in 1942. However, inertial sensors are traced to...
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    development division, had developed an astro-inertial navigation system (ANS), which could correct inertial navigation errors with celestial observations, for...
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    position, inertial navigation systems also typically estimate a predicted position for future computing cycles. See also Inertial navigation system. Astro-inertial...
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  • ROCKS (missile) (category Rafael Advanced Defense Systems)
    enemy air defense coverage. For navigation and target acquisition, ROCKS uses a combination of inertial navigation system (INS), GPS, and an electro-optical...
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  • A navigation system is a computing system that aids in navigation. Navigation systems may be entirely on board the vehicle or vessel that the system is...
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  • Schuler tuning (category Navigational equipment)
    Schuler tuning describes the conditions necessary for an inertial navigation system to keep the inertial platform always pointing "north", "east" and "down"...
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    This variant features a hybrid inertial navigation system (INS) and a Global Positioning System (GPS) guidance system. The other variants include an additional...
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    hard for other vessels to see and identify. Submarines carry an inertial navigation system, which measures the boat’s motion and constantly updates position...
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  • trackers, inertial measurement units, altimeters, etc. The output of the navigation system, the navigation solution, is an input for the guidance system, among...
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  • addition to attitude determination an AHRS may also form part of an inertial navigation system. A form of non-linear estimation such as an Extended Kalman filter...
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    The Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere (AIRS) is a highly accurate inertial navigation system designed for use in the LGM-118 Peacekeeper ICBM, which was...
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    contiguous United States due to findings that aircraft were using inertial navigation systems rather than the ground-based beacons, and so cost–benefit analysis...
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    satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning. A satellite navigation system with global...
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  • In classical physics and special relativity, an inertial frame of reference (also called inertial space, or Galilean reference frame) is a stationary...
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    products, and science. Highly sensitive accelerometers are used in inertial navigation systems for aircraft and missiles. In unmanned aerial vehicles, accelerometers...
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  • GPS/INS (category Inertial navigation)
    correct or calibrate a solution from an inertial navigation system (INS). The method is applicable for any GNSS/INS system. The GPS gives an absolute drift-free...
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    3–23.6 mi) Guided multiple launch rocket system (GMLRS) rockets have a GPS-aided inertial navigation system and extended range. Flight control is accomplished...
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    volume on the rotary launchers. The system was otherwise similar to Quail, using a simple inertial navigation system (INS) allowing the missile to fly a...
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    Hemispherical resonator gyroscope (category Navigational aids)
    new-generation shipborne inertial navigation system". 30 October 2012. "EURONAVAL 2018: New family of naval inertial navigation systems by Safran". 24 October...
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    a Taiwanese beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile. It has an inertial navigation system, a data-link for mid-course guidance and active radar homing for...
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    ring laser gyroscope is used in the high accuracy with Micro Inertial Navigation System (MINGS), which complement each other as a redundancy. The high...
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    guidance system called micro inertial navigation system (MINGS) as a backup. These are capable of interacting with Indian and foreign satellite navigation systems...
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  • redesigned main system computers, and a battle health monitoring system. The inertial navigation system and GPS navigation system are fused. The fourth-generation...
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  • handled inappropriately, halting the whole otherwise unaffected inertial navigation system. This caused the rocket to veer off its flight path 37 seconds...
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  • Autonetics included the Navigation Systems division, designing and producing inertial and stellar-inertial navigation systems for ships, submarines, missiles...
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