Flight Test Results of Navigating an Aircraft by use of a Position Potential Prediction Model

Adam Ciecko, Janusz Cwiklak, Marek Grzegorzewski, Stanislaw Oszczak

Abstract:	The paper describes, the functioning of the developed alternative navigation filter that has been tested during in-flight experiments performed with a Cessna 172 aircraft. The presented method relies mostly on the following parameters related to the motion of an aircraft: position, velocity (airspeed) and position error statistics. The implemented filter uses the concept of the position potential” based on the data received from the navigation GNSS services. The practical navigation performance of the developed method was tested during the approach and landing phase of flights that were performed in the Deblin airfield. The results of in-flight experiments show that the proposed solution is capable of ensuring the proper prediction of the aircraft continuous trajectory in the event of GNSS data availability interruption in consecutive seconds of flight. The results are presented and discussed. "
Published in:	Proceedings of the 25th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2012) September 17 - 21, 2012 Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, TN
Pages:	3523 - 3529
Cite this article:	Ciecko, Adam, Cwiklak, Janusz, Grzegorzewski, Marek, Oszczak, Stanislaw, "Flight Test Results of Navigating an Aircraft by use of a Position Potential Prediction Model," Proceedings of the 25th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2012), Nashville, TN, September 2012, pp. 3523-3529.
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