Self-calibration method based on navigation in high-precision inertial navigation system with fiber optic gyro

A rotary inertial navigation system requires higher calibration accuracy of some error parameters owing to rotation. Conventional multiposition and rotation calibration methods are limited, for they do not consider sensors' actual operating condition. In order to achieve these parameters' values as closely as possible to their true values in application, their influence on navigation is analyzed, and a relevant new calibration method based on a system's velocity output during navigation is designed for the vital error parameters, including inertial sensors' installation errors and the scale factor error of fiber optic gyro. Most importantly, this approach requires no additional devices compared to the conventional method and costs merely several minutes. Experimental results from a real dual-axis rotary fiber optic gyro inertial navigation system demonstrate the practicability and higher precision of the suggested approach. (c) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI.