The GPS-free navigation

The GPS-system is playing a vital role in everyday life. That system is required in many everyday applications. But in the military area, the GPS is even more important than people even imagine. The GPS-guided bombs allow the aircraft can close their target freely from any direction.

The recon satellite must only locate the target from any point of Earth. And then it must just deliver that point to the attack systems. And then the GPS-guided system will fly the aircraft to the target.

The GPS makes also possible to locate own ground troops very accurate. And then the attack plane can attack the enemy with pinpoint accuracy. And this is the reason why the GPS satellites are the primary targets for the ASAT (Anti-Satellite) weapons. And that is the reason why GPS-free navigation is under development.

One of the simplest versions of the GPS-free navigation that can operate without GPS is the inertial navigation system. If the inertial navigation systems are operating as series the autopilot can fly the aircraft by using quite complicated routes. If the aircraft can use pre-planned speed, altitude, and turning directions. The GPS that operates by using a series of waypoints can be useful. When the aircraft's speed is known the distance or the length of the vector that it travels is easy to calculate. When the aircraft is reaching the turning point, the system turns it by using the pre-ordered angle.

Smart weapons can use the inertial navigation system connected to TERCOM-navigation. Engineers created that system originally for cruise missiles. But it can use in regular aircraft and drones.

The TERCOM system uses the images for traveling to the target. The satellites or other recon systems would take the images of the route that the missile or aircraft should use. And then the system compares the images stored in its memory with the data that its camera and lidar scanners bring to the system.

The inertial and image homing systems can use to aim weapons in cases that the GPS is unable to operate. The system must just need photographs of the target. And then the weapon would deliver at the flight range. Then the imaging seeker locates the target and the system selects the right attack angle and other parameters that are made precisely to a certain type of target. The hardened target requires 90 degrees of the hit.

If the robot operates on another planet the GPS that records the movements is enough. In the case, that the robot will go to the place where it cannot drive through it must only retake the same movements that it made in the opposite order. This kind of system can use in deserts and other planets. But the GPS-free navigation is required also in robots that are working in everyday life.

If the navigation and communication between the robot and control center are jammed in the places like tunnels the robot car must not drive backward when that thing is happening. It must drive independently and safely to the area. Where it can reconnect itself to the network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

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