Applying GPS to a Remotely Piloted Vehicle

Wen-Lin Guan, Fei-Bin Hsiao, Ching -Shun Ho

Abstract:	This paper presents the preliminary flight test results of GPS navigation system for a remote pilot vehicle (RPV). The RPV is intended to be used for providing position and time information in air-photography application. An on-board GPS receiver is installed to collect the C/A code pseudo-ranges and navigation messages in conjunction with an additional receiver placed on the ground site with known coordinates, for employing the differential GPS (DGPS) purpose. To verify the navigation accuracy, several ground checking points are surveyed. In addition, coordinate transformation between WGS-84 and the local reference system is adopted to lessen the possible geodetic coordinates error. The results show that an average position accuracy of 20 meters can be expected, which is good enough for air-photography application.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 1997 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 14 - 16, 1997 Loews Santa Monica Hotel Santa Monica, CA
Pages:	121 - 128
Cite this article:	Guan, Wen-Lin, Hsiao, Fei-Bin, Ho, Ching -Shun, "Applying GPS to a Remotely Piloted Vehicle," Proceedings of the 1997 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, Santa Monica, CA, January 1997, pp. 121-128.
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