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Abstract
Inertial Navigation System (INS) and Global Positioning System (GPS), are used in various navigation and positioning applications. Because each of the INS and GPS technologies has some limitations and advantages, during last two decades, the systems integration has been widely used for accurate and reliable navigation and positioning. In an integrated system, accurate GPS observations are used to estimate the high rate INS errors and state vector (including INS error vector, position, velocity and other optional parameters). A field test results are presented in this paper. The goal of this test is to compare the coordinates of a relatively low cost INS, GPS RTK coordinates, and the integrated GPS/INS results. The decentralized approach has been used for this integration.
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