Physical Initial Flight Alignment For Stabilized Platform Inertial Navigation system Using State Feedback

A method for increasing the accuracy of the initial alignment process of inertial navigation systems with a stable platform is presented through state feedback control in flight mode. In the presented method, the state feedback controller is designed by using the stable plate deviation angles and the sensor error which is extracted with the help of Kalman filter. To do this, while checking the observability of the system, by adding suitable flight maneuvers and expressing the equations of propagation of navigation error, in the form of a fixed piece system with time, it is possible to estimate the angles and errors of the sensors in the align phase. The groundwork is provided for the design of state feedback. Then, taking into account the stable platform motion equations and using the principle of separation of observer and controller design, a state feedback controller is designed. In the end, the simulation results of the proposed method show an increase in the accuracy of the alignment process and, consequently, an increase in the accuracy of the navigation, compared to the conventional output feedback method.