Author : David A Cicci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (492 download)
Book Synopsis A Short Course in Inertial Navigation and Missile Guidance by : David A Cicci
Download or read book A Short Course in Inertial Navigation and Missile Guidance written by David A Cicci and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short course covering basic and advanced topics inertial navigation and missile guidance. This course is structured to present the fundamental concepts without the in-depth theoretical background and many of the mathematical derivations that commonly accompany an academic presentation of the subject. My intention was to introduce navigation and guidance in a simplified manner to those with no previous background in the field, or to provide a review to those who have studied the subjects previously. Readers should have a familiarity with differential and integral calculus and differential equations to help understand some equations presented. The form of this short course is like the many short courses I've taught at government agencies and private corporations during my thirty-five-year career as a professor of aerospace engineering at Auburn University. It presents the material in a simple outline/bullet format using many understandable figures, rather than using lengthy, detailed explanations with complex mathematical derivations and proofs. It provides the practical equations that are useful to the practicing engineer. The objectives of this short course are to: - Review the navigation, guidance, and control process and the role of inertial navigation. - Discuss the concept and functionality of inertial sensors and their role in inertial navigation. - Present the coordinate systems and coordinate transformation methods used in inertial navigation. - Explain Newton's Second Law and its application to inertial navigation. - Review how the mechanization equations are developed and used in inertial navigation, including gravitational modeling. - Present the sources of navigation errors and how they are mathematically modeled. - Introduce the concepts of GPS-aided inertial navigation systems, along with possible filtering and coupling approaches. - Examine missile modeling techniques and equations of motion used in missile guidance. - Review the fundamentals of missile guidance methods and guidance system models. - Provide an overview and performance comparison of classical guidance laws. - Describe the concept of Linear Quadratic Guidance theory and its use in the development of advanced guidance laws. - Introduce how inertial measurement units can be modeled mathematically. The material presented is usually covered in graduate level course except that there's no required homework, quizzes, projects, computer programs to write, or examinations. I believe that even a novice reading through this material will gain an in-depth understanding of the subjects covered. The material presented is not easy, but it can be enjoyably simple once the fundamentals are understood. To that end, I've attempted to present the difficult concepts as clearly as possible to facilitate that understanding. This short course is part of a series I've developed as a Professor at Auburn University. Others in this series include: Orbital Mechanics, Part I: The Two-Body Problem Orbital Mechanics, Part II: Satellite Perturbations State Estimation and Kalman Filtering: Fundamentals of Orbit Determination David A. Cicci Auburn, Alabama [email protected]
