VOR - Calibration by an Airborne Integrated Navigation System
Tore Smestad · Modeling Identification and Control A Norwegian Research Bulletin · 1980
A simulation study of a possible application of modern control theory is presented. The problem is to check and calibrate a VOR-station from a circling aircraft. An accurate position estimate of the circling aircraft is needed in order to calculate the errors in the received VOR-signals. The position estimate is here obtained from an integrated navigation system using an inertial navigation system (INS), a laser range-finder, angle measurements on the laser line-of-sight, and barometer readings. The range and angle measurements are fed to a Kalman filter which estimates errors in the navigation system. Simulation results show that satisfactory accuracy is obtained by this method. The paper presents a description of the proposed system, the simulation model used, simulation results and some sensitivity analysis.