Research Article

Novel Special Orthogonal Group Optimization for Coarse Alignment Method of SINS on a Rocking Base

Table 1

Definitions of the reference frames.

Reference frameDefinition

frameThe navigation frame ( frame), which is orthogonal reference frame aligned with east-north-up (E-N-U) geodetic axes
frameThe sensor’s body fixed frame
frameThe inertial coordinate frame
frameThe inertial coordinate frame obtained by fixing the frame at the initial time
frameThe inertial coordinate frame obtained by fixing the frame at the initial time