DEVELOPMENT OF A LASER TRACKER AND ITS EVALUATION BY FLIGHT TESTING

Research is being conducted on flight tests for approach and landing navigation using the NAL Do-228 research airplane and the unmanned vehicle ALFLEX under a joint research project with NAL and NASDA. On these flights, an evaluation of the flight path and navigation sensors was required. The laser tracker was developed for this purpose. This paper outlines the development of the laser tracker and its evaluation based on flight test results. For the accuracy evaluation, laser tracker and its evaluation is based on flight test results. For the accuracy evaluation, laser tracker data were compared with kinematic GPS data using onboard GPS receiver and a ground station GPS receiver. The laser tracker was found to have the required accuracy.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Text in Japanese with an English abstract.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Aerospace Laboratory

  Tokyo,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Ono, T
  • Okada, N
  • Inagaki, T
  • Tsuji, T
  • Suito, T
  • Suzaki, Y
  • Murasawa, K
  • , Hiroaki
  • Harigae, M
• Publication Date: 1998-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 38 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Flight tests; Global Positioning System; Lasers; Navigation systems; Tracking systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Laser applications
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00758987
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NAL-TR-1331
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 5 1999 12:00AM