A Modern Tower of Babel: Integration, Test and Evaluation of lnertially Aided Avionics

Norman Walton, Steven Ziskind

Abstract:	Avionics sytems integrators are relying more heavily than ever before on inertial sensors to stabilize and align "optical" sensors, such as radar and infrared. These applications place an emphasis on short term, high bandwidth accuracy which is largely irrelevant to the traditional task of navigation. In general, the differing emphases of the traditional and new users of inertial sensors makes communication between inertial vendors and their new user community difficult. This paper outlines what we believe to be necessary considerations for the integration of inertially supported avionics. We also present several case histories to show how easily integration tasks can come to grief.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1987) June 23 - 25, 1987 Dayton, Ohio
Pages:	172 - 177
Cite this article:	Walton, Norman, Ziskind, Steven, "A Modern Tower of Babel: Integration, Test and Evaluation of lnertially Aided Avionics," Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1987), Dayton, Ohio, June 1987, pp. 172-177.
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