Avionics Navigation Systems, 2nd Edition

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

 1 Introduction

Myron Kayton

1.1 Definitions

1.2 Guidance versus Navigation

1.3 Categories of Navigation

1.4 The Vehicle

1.4.1 Civil Aircraft

1.4.2 Military Aircraft

1.5 Phases of Flight

1.5.1 Takeoff

1.5.2 Terminal Area

1.5.3 En route

1.5.4 Approach

1.5.5 Landing

1.5.6 Missed Approach

1.5.7 Surface

1.5.8 Weather

1.6 Design Trade-offs

1.7 Evolution of Air Navigation

1.8 Integrated Avionics

1.8.1 All Aircraft

1.8.2 Military Avionics

1.8.3 Architecture

1.9 Human Navigator

 2 The Navigation Equations

Myron Kayton

1.1 Introduction

2.2 Geometry of the Earth

2.3 Coordinate Frames

2.4 Dead-Reckoning Computations

2.5 Positioning

2.5.1 Radio Fixes

2.5.2 Line-of-Sight Distance Measurement

2.5.3 Ground-Wave One-Way Ranging

2.5.4 Ground-Wave Time-Differencing

2.6 Terrain-Matching Navigation

2.7 Course Computation

2.7.1 Range and Bearing Calculation

2.7.2 Direct Steering

2.7.3 Airway Steering

2.7.4 Area Navigation

2.8 Navigation Errors

2.8.1 Test Data

2.8.2 Geometric Dilution of Precision

2.9 Digital Charts

2.10 Software Development

2.11 Future Trends

Problems

 3 Multisensor Navigation Systems

James R. Huddle, R. Grover Brown

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Inertial System Characteristics

3.3 An Integrated Stellar-Inertial System

3.4 Integrated Doppler-Inertial Systems

3.5 An Airspeed-Damped Inertial System

3.6 An Integrated Stellar-Inertial-Doppler System

3.7 Position Update of an Inertial System

3.8 Noninertial GPS Multisensor Navigation Systems ...