A one-position comprehensive calibration method for long-endurance strapdown inertial navigation systems

A one-position comprehensive calibration method based on inertial frame is proposed to suppress the divergence of errors of a strapdown system. The auxiliary navigation information is provided by GPS and celestial navigation system. The coefficients in the error model of traditional comprehensive calibration methods are basically determined by outputs of the INS, thus the computational errors of INS are introduced into the error model. These modelling errors are amended according to the auxiliary navigation information in the proposed method relaxing the constraint to speed and trajectory of the vehicle. Kalman filter is utilized to estimate the gyro constant drifts. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated by simulation.