Accuracy Improvement Methods and New Applications of Inertial-Based Navigation System

Dear Colleagues,

Inertial measurement, which has been widely applied in aerospace, aviation, automatic pilot, AUV, and many other fields, is a key technology for motion detection and control for most vehicles. The inertial navigation system with multi-source information fusion has become a mainstream solution to the problem that the navigation errors of the pure inertial navigation system essentially increase over time. A stable inertial-based navigation system to provide more accurate navigation information is urgently required for smart city construction, precision agriculture, precision-guided munition, etc., in future. Hence, improving the measurement accuracy and measurement reliability of attitude, velocity, and position has always been a hot topic in the field of inertial-based navigation system research.

The scope of this Special Issue will be the principle and performance improvement of inertial sensors, design methods of high-accuracy navigation, the technology of multi-sensor information fusion, and new applications of inertial-based navigation systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Novel principles of inertial sensors;
• Accuracy improvement approach and technology of inertial sensors;
• Modeling and compensating technology of inertial sensor errors;
• Accurate testing and calibration of the inertial navigation system;
• Accurate alignment of the inertial-based navigation system on the moving base;
• High-accuracy updating algorithms for inertial navigation systems;
• Novel filtering methods of multi-sensor integrated navigation (GNSS/DOV/visual navigation/LiDAR/map matching);
• Intelligent fault detection approach for navigation systems;
• New applications of inertial-based navigation systems in new fields (autopilot/energy and resource extraction/smart farming and precision agriculture).

Dr. Gongmin Yan
Dr. Qiangwen Fu
Dr. Jun Weng
Prof. Dr. Yueyang Ben
Guest Editors

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