Lever-arm correction analysis as applied to commercial airborne GPS Landing System applications
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The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) contains two focuses. The focus on Electrical Engineering teaches students in the fields of control systems, electromagnetics and non-destructive evaluation, microelectronics, electric power & energy systems, and the like. The Computer Engineering focus teaches in the fields of software systems, embedded systems, networking, information security, computer architecture, etc.
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The Department of Electrical Engineering was formed in 1909 from the division of the Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering. In 1985 its name changed to Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. In 1995 it became the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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1909-present
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- Department of Electrical Engineering (1909-1985)
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering (1985-1995)
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- College of Engineering (parent college)
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Satellite-based navigation will be integrated into high-precision, high-integrity commercial airborne applications, including precision landing systems. One such system is the Global Positioning System (GPS) Landing System (GLS), which utilizes the GPS satellites for navigation. The most common precision landing system currently is the Instrument Landing System (ILS) which essentially uses the glideslope antenna as the Guidance Control Point (GCP). This portion of the ILS provides critical information, including vertical guidance and deviation from the prescribed glidepath, to the flight computer, pilot, and autopilot. The Navigation Reference Point (NRP) for the GLS, however, is the location of the GPS receiving antenna(s), where similar deviations are computed from a calculated glidepath. Since the GCP and the NRP are not co-located, it is necessary to translate the NRP to the GCP to resemble the ILS's direct connection to the other landing instruments. The effort the author will perform, with respect to the GLS, will be the error analysis of the location of the NRP and a limited number of methods to apply a lever-arm correction, the impact to system accuracy. This effort will take into account the errors generated by the attitude perturbations, as well as error inaccuracies of the current GPS system.