ABSTRACT
Remote-access-observation-based attitude estimation, also known as cooperative attitude estimation (CAE), is dened as the attitude estimation scheme solely based on the remote-access measurements or other information, and is recognized as a promising strategy for providing cooperative vehicles with accurate attitude information during critical operation scenarios, for example, emergency navigation when the local inertial navigation system is broken down [1]. In this chapter, we mainly introduce a new CAE strategy based on the cooperative packets from a navigation carrier ad hoc network (NC-NET), which is proposed and investigated in greater detail in our previous researches [2-5]. More specically, we have proposed a novel network architecture, that is, NC-NET, to deal with the navigation-related issues, in terms of cooperative navigation, localization, target tracking, and multimedia data exchange, through a network approach. Thus, as a part of series of research on networked navigation, the main objective of this chapter is to develop a CAE scheme for the localization and navigation of networked carriers (NCs) on the background of NC-NET observations.
