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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1988
Donald H Van Steenwyk, San Marino, CA (US);
Applied Technologies Associates, San Marino, CA (US);
Abstract
Land vehicle navigation apparatus combining an inertial angular rate sensor having a sensitive axis, with an inertial acceleration or tilt sensor having at least two sensitive axes, these sensitive axes having a known relationship to the inertial angular rate sensor's sensitive axis. Also provided is circuitry to accept from an external source an initial input valve (or self initialization, by rotary multiple positioning) of the vehicle's azimuthal orientation angles, roll, pitch, and azimuth, with respect to an Earth-fixed coordinate set as the land vehicle travels over the Earth surface. Changes to the azimuth angle during travel are determined by integration of the output of the inertial angular rate sensor.