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Navigation systems engineering is a red-hot area. More and more technical professionals are entering the field and looking for practical, up-to-date engineering know-how. This single-source reference answers the call, providing both an introduction to overall systems operation and an in-depth treatment of architecture, design, and component integration. This book explains how satellite, on-board, and other navigation technologies operate, and it gives practitioners insight into performance issues such as processing chains and error sources. Providing solutions to systems designers and engineers, the book describes and compares different integration architectures, and explains how to diagnose errors. Moreover, this hands-on book includes appendices filled with terminology and equations for quick referencing.

Artificial satellites in navigation. --- Inertial navigation systems. --- Inertial guidance --- Inertial guidance sensors --- Nautical instruments --- Navigation --- Navigation systems, Inertial

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Sextants at Greenwich consists of two main sections: The introductory chapters and the catalogue of navigating instruments of the National Maritime Museum.The first section gives a general overview of the history of celestial navigation with an emphasis on the instruments that were developed and used for that purpose, between about 1450 and the 1970s. The instruments in the catalogue form the main thread in these chapters. The catalogue consists of 347 entries of instruments for celestial navigation, the octants, sextants and related instruments preserved in the National Maritime Museum. Each

Nautical instruments --- Instruments, Marine --- Instruments, Nautical --- Marine instruments --- Nautical paraphernalia --- Navigation --- History --- Equipment and supplies --- National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) --- NMM (National Maritime Museum) --- Great Britain. --- Greenwich (London, England). --- Greenwich, Eng. --- Royal Museums Greenwich. --- Eikoku Gurinitchi Kokuritsu Kaiji Hakubutsukan --- Royal Naval Museum (Great Britain)

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The emerging technology of very inexpensive inertial sensors is available for navigation as never before. The book lays the analytical foundation for understanding and implementing the navigation equations. It starts by demystifying the central theme of the frame rotation using such algorithms as the quaternions, the rotation vector and the Euler angles. After developing navigation equations, the book introduces the computational issues and discusses the physical aspects that are tied to implementing these equations. The book then explains alignment techniques.Introduction to Modern Navigation

Inertial navigation systems. --- Inertial navigation. --- Global Positioning System. --- Global Navigation Satellite System --- GNSS (Navigational system) --- GPS (Navigational system) --- Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging Global Positioning System --- NAVSTAR GPS --- Artificial satellites in navigation --- Mobile geographic information systems --- Navigation, Inertial --- Dead reckoning (Navigation) --- Nautical instruments --- Navigation --- Inertial guidance --- Inertial guidance sensors --- Navigation systems, Inertial

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This thesis develops next-generation multi-degree-of-freedom gyroscopes and inertial measurement units (IMU) using micro-electromechanical-systems (MEMS) technology. It covers both a comprehensive study of the physics of resonator gyroscopes and novel micro/nano-fabrication solutions to key performance limits in MEMS resonator gyroscopes. Firstly, theoretical and experimental studies of physical phenomena including mode localization, nonlinear behavior, and energy dissipation provide new insights into challenges like quadrature errors and flicker noise in resonator gyroscope systems. Secondly, advanced designs and micro/nano-fabrication methods developed in this work demonstrate valuable applications to a wide range of MEMS/NEMS devices. In particular, the HARPSS+ process platform established in this thesis features a novel slanted nano-gap transducer, which enabled the first wafer-level-packaged single-chip IMU prototype with co-fabricated high-frequency resonant triaxial gyroscopes and high-bandwidth triaxial micro-gravity accelerometers. This prototype demonstrates performance amongst the highest to date, with unmatched robustness and potential for flexible substrate integration and ultra-low-power operation. This thesis shows a path toward future low-power IMU-based applications including wearable inertial sensors, health informatics, and personal inertial navigation.

Engineering. --- Electronics. --- Vibration. --- Measurement Science and Instrumentation. --- Nanotechnology and Microengineering. --- Nanoscale Science and Technology. --- Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation. --- Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control. --- Cycles --- Mechanics --- Sound --- Electrical engineering --- Physical sciences --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Inertial navigation. --- Navigation, Inertial --- Dead reckoning (Navigation) --- Nautical instruments --- Navigation --- Physical measurements. --- Measurement   . --- Nanotechnology. --- Nanoscale science. --- Nanoscience. --- Nanostructures. --- Microelectronics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Dynamics. --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Physics --- Statics --- Microminiature electronic equipment --- Microminiaturization (Electronics) --- Electronics --- Microtechnology --- Semiconductors --- Miniature electronic equipment --- Nanoscience --- Nano science --- Nanoscale science --- Nanosciences --- Science --- Molecular technology --- Nanoscale technology --- High technology --- Measuring --- Mensuration --- Metrology --- Physical measurements --- Measurements, Physical --- Mathematical physics --- Measurement

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This book contains selected papers that address a variety of topics related to the design, development and operation of unmanned and fully autonomous sailing boats. These papers were presented in the 9th International Robotic Sailing Conference, in association with the 9th World Robotic Sailing Championship that took place in Viana do Castelo, Portugal from the 5th to 10th of September 2016. The book is divided in three parts, each focusing on key aspects of robotic sailing. The first part addresses the design, construction and validation of autonomous sailboat platforms, including their rigs, appendages and control mechanisms. The second part is devoted to the development of sensors and algorithms to enhance the performance of robotic sailing boats, in terms of their speed, course control and manoeuvring ability. Finally, the papers in the last part are dedicated to the improvement of behaviours required for the accomplishment of complex autonomous missions. Robotic sailing is a relatively new multidisciplinary area of research, with a recognized great potential for persistent ocean observation. Using the wind for boat propulsion is something mankind has been doing for centuries. Automating and optimizing the sailing process in the harsh marine environment is an ever present challenge which is now promising to bear fruit.

Engineering. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Robotics. --- Automation. --- Transportation engineering. --- Traffic engineering. --- Robotics and Automation. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering. --- Autonomous robots. --- Sailing. --- Automatic pilot (Ships) --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Autonomous robotic systems --- Automatic steerer --- Gyro pilot --- Gyropilot --- Iron quartermaster --- Pilot, Automatic --- Construction --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Automation --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Aquatic sports --- Navigation --- Boats and boating --- Yachting --- Nautical instruments --- Robots --- Traffic Engineering. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Engineering, Traffic --- Road traffic --- Street traffic --- Traffic, City --- Traffic control --- Traffic regulation --- Urban traffic --- Highway engineering --- Transportation engineering --- Civil engineering --- Engineering --- Automatic factories --- Automatic production --- Computer control --- Engineering cybernetics --- Factories --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanization --- Assembly-line methods --- Automatic control --- Automatic machinery --- CAD/CAM systems --- Robotics