In navigation, a state vector is a set of data describing exactly where an object is located in space, and how it is moving. A state vector typically will...
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astrodynamics and celestial dynamics, the orbital state vectors (sometimes state vectors) of an orbit are Cartesian vectors of position ( r {\displaystyle \mathbf...
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Look up vector or vectorial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vector most often refers to: Disease vector, an agent that carries and transmits an infectious...
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Azimuth (category Navigation)
There are exceptions: some navigation systems use south as the reference vector. Any direction can be the reference vector, as long as it is clearly defined...
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Wind triangle (category Air navigation)
used extensively in dead reckoning navigation. The wind triangle is a vector diagram, with three vectors. The air vector represents the motion of the aircraft...
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link][dead link] Navigation refers to the determination, at a given time, of the vehicle's location and velocity (the "state vector") as well as its attitude...
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monochromatic vector mapping displays used by predecessors. 1990: Mazda Eunos Cosmo became the first production car with built-in GPS-navigation system 1991:...
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The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation. It is also the...
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Area navigation (RNAV, usually pronounced as /ˈɑːrnæv/) is a method of instrument flight rules (IFR) navigation that allows aircraft to fly along a desired...
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An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers)...
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Rhumb line (category Navigation)
In navigation, a rhumb line, rhumb (/rʌm/), or loxodrome is an arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant...
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Dead reckoning (category Navigation)
In navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating the current position of a moving object by using a previously determined position, or fix,...
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guidance, navigation, and control of the U.S. Navy's Transit satellite system at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratories. TRIAD represented the state of practice...
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users of the Loran-C navigation system. The idea of geometric DOP is to state how errors in the measurement will affect the final state estimation. This can...
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and ENCs are the primary means of electronic navigation on cargo ships. Charts can be used in navigation to provide an indication of location once a position...
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Guidance system (redirect from Guidance (navigation))
about the object's state of motion. A guidance system is usually part of a Guidance, navigation and control system, whereas navigation refers to the systems...
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shapes in a vector graphics editor. Image maps which do not make their clickable areas obvious risk subjecting the user to mystery meat navigation. Even when...
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pilot-nav SIDs, radar vector SIDs, and hybrid SIDs. A pilot-nav SID is a SID where the pilot is primarily responsible for navigation along the SID route...
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database is the United States Defense Mapping Agency's (DMA) operational navigation chart (ONC) 1:1,000,000 scale paper map series produced by the US, Australia...
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cases where the dimension of the observation vector y is bigger than the dimension of the state space vector x, the information filter can avoid the inversion...
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characters. Unit vector In mathematics, a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) of length 1. A unit vector is often denoted...
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Magnetic field (redirect from Magnetic field vector)
is important in navigation using a compass. The force on an electric charge depends on its location, speed, and direction; two vector fields are used...
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from MT Vector. Don Claudio serviced the Manila - Iloilo City route until the 1990s when it was put in service for Roxas City as Negros Navigation acquired...
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Polarization (waves) (redirect from State of polarization)
the same state of polarization. The physical electric field, as the real part of the Jones vector, would be altered but the polarization state itself is...
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sequence of vectors using self-supervised learning. It uses the encoder-only transformer architecture. BERT dramatically improved the state-of-the-art...
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The Vector Map (VMAP), also called Vector Smart Map, is a vector-based collection of geographic information system (GIS) data about Earth at various levels...
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Etak (redirect from Etak (automotive navigation systems))
Etak, Inc. was an independent US-based vendor of automotive navigation system equipment, digital maps, and mapping software. It was founded in 1983. Competitor...
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Euclidean space (redirect from Euclidean vector space)
of navigation. More generally, the spaces of non-Euclidean geometries can be realized as Riemannian manifolds. An inner product of a real vector space...
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Angular momentum (redirect from Orbital angular momentum vector)
the cross product of the particle's position vector r (relative to some origin) and its momentum vector; the latter is p = mv in Newtonian mechanics....
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Required navigation performance (RNP) is a type of performance-based navigation (PBN) that allows an aircraft to fly a specific path between two 3D-defined...
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