Research progress on geomagnetic vector matching navigation algorithms for aviation platforms
Aviation geomagnetic vector navigation technology,due to its advantages of autonomy,passivity,and strong reliability,can effectively play a substitute role in situations such as satellite navigation systems being attacked.It has extremely high strategic significance and application value in both military and civilian fields.Aviation platforms have the characteristics of fast flight speed and short time crossing over wide areas,which puts forward high precision and reliability requirements for geomagnetic vector measurement and navigation methods.The research and development status of aviation geomagnetic vector navigation systems in recent years was reviewed in this article,the key technologies in geomagnetic vector navigation were introduced,and the geomagnetic matching navigation algorithms were analyzed in emphasis.Aiming to the shortcomings of the existed algorithms,some research directions such as the further improvements in accuracy and robustness,the navigation algorithms based on machine learning and the development of geomagnetic vector navigation technology for unmanned aerial vehicles were proposed,which intends to promote the further development of aviation geomagnetic vector navigation technology.