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Groves, 1st Edition (2008)

Principles of GNSS, Inertial, and
Multisensor Integrated Navigation

The definitive navigation systems textbook, rebuilt chapter by chapter as interactive lessons. From coordinate frames to tightly coupled INS/GNSS fusion, with live simulations at every step.

15
Chapters
40+
Simulations
90+
Quizzes
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1

Introduction

Position fixing, dead reckoning, inertial navigation, GNSS, feature matching, and the complete navigation system.

Part II: Navigation Mathematics
Chapter 2

Coordinate Frames, Kinematics, and the Earth

ECI, ECEF, local navigation, and body frames. Euler angles, DCMs, quaternions, Earth models, and gravity.

Chapter 3

The Kalman Filter

State estimation, system propagation, measurement update, gain computation, EKF, and filter tuning.

Part III: Navigation Systems
Chapter 4

Inertial Sensors

Accelerometers, gyroscopes (spinning mass, optical, vibratory), IMUs, and error characteristics.

Chapter 5

Inertial Navigation

Navigation equations in ECI, ECEF, and local frames. Attitude update, velocity integration, alignment, error propagation.

Chapter 6

Satellite Navigation Systems

GNSS fundamentals, GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, signals, pseudo-range measurements, and positioning.

Chapter 7

GNSS Processing, Errors, and Geometry

Satellite orbits, receiver hardware, signal tracking, range errors, DOP, and the navigation processor.

Chapter 8

Advanced Satellite Navigation

Differential GNSS, carrier-phase positioning, integer ambiguity, poor SNR environments, multipath mitigation.

Chapter 9

Terrestrial Radio Navigation

Loran, ILS, urban and indoor positioning, WLAN, UWB, mobile phone, and signals of opportunity.

Chapter 10

Dead Reckoning, Attitude, and Height

Magnetometers, AHRS, barometric altimeters, odometers, pedestrian dead reckoning, Doppler radar.

Chapter 11

Feature Matching

Terrain-referenced navigation, image matching, map matching, gravity gradiometry, stellar navigation.

Part IV: Integrated Navigation
Chapter 12

INS/GNSS Integration

Loosely and tightly coupled architectures, deep integration, system models, measurement models.

Chapter 13

INS Alignment and Zero Velocity Updates

Transfer alignment, quasi-stationary alignment, fine alignment, ZUPT implementation.

Chapter 14

Multisensor Integrated Navigation

Least-squares, cascaded, centralized, and federated architectures. Integration of all sensor types.

Chapter 15

Fault Detection and Integrity Monitoring

Failure modes, range checks, innovation filtering, RAIM, parallel solutions, certified integrity.