Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) Navigation System for the Decade

Dominick Carlino, Chong Lee and Christos Agoros

Abstract:	As US Navy UUV mission requirements escalate, the demands for improved UUV navigation accuracy also increase. This paper discusses performance results for state-of-the-art navigation subsystems which are miniaturized for small diameter UUV application. These subsystems include a laser-gyro based, high performance, strapdown Inertial Navigation System (INS), and a specially designed Doppler Velocity Sonar (DVS). Discussions also include a UUV navigation system architecture which increases INS accuracy through MS aiding via DVS and Global Position Satellite (GPS) for velocity and position error estimates. Error estimation is done with a Kalman Filter (KF). The final portion of the paper discusses extension of the UUV navigation system architecture to include nontraditional sensors and processing.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 1995 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 18 - 20, 1995 Disneyland Hotel Anaheim, CA
Pages:	515 - 523
Cite this article:	Carlino, Dominick, Lee, Chong, Agoros, Christos, "Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) Navigation System for the Decade," Proceedings of the 1995 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, Anaheim, CA, January 1995, pp. 515-523.
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