Sattelite Navigation and Compasss Data Fusion

Theoretical information about different satellite navigation systems used for determination of position. Special attention is attended to system GPS. There are consulted main principles of the GPS and some error sources. Application of differential GPS for minimization of these errors is discussed. Next part is about examples of basic principles for measuring earth magnetic field. Last chaps are about practical realization of mentioned DGPS, which is applied for outdoor mobile robot navigation. There is described hardware structure, software utilities and application of an aided tool for GPS - electronic compass. Some practical measurements and results are presented