Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane
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Hmmm so in the future we will have AI best guessing planes locations?
Ye haw.I doubt it'll ever be used on commercial aircraft, since they do have GPS and all the other things there isn't really any point adding a yet another system. Especially because it requires cooling, if it gets too warm it stops working, and buy too warm I mean the temperature of interplanetary space is too warm. Basically has to be absolute zero or bust.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35701350
This would be a great idea for caving
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It's very cool how these devices find their location, though. When you first boot the system up, it spends about 5 minutes measuring the rotation of the Earth. For this reason, you can't reset it when in motion. Based on what it feels it can determine your exact location on the surface of the earth.
That gets you longitude but not latitude, right?
I've been trying to think through how it would determine longitude based on rotation of the earth and I agree, that's not really possible. I wonder what other tricks it uses to find the initial location.
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When you first boot the system up, it spends about 5 minutes measuring the rotation of the Earth. For this reason, you can't reset it when in motion.
That's very interesting. I've heard a lot about IRS/INS, but I didn't know what it was doing during initialization.
It must be an extremely sensitive instrument if it can measure the rotation of the Earth. I'm wondering, does anyone in the cockpit have to sit still when it boots up? Because I can imagine walking around in the plane alone, or even just a powerful sneeze would already introduce some movement, not to talk about the ground handlers loading the cargo.
It's recommended to not begin boarding until it's finished, but one person moving around, gusts of wind, etc. don't bother it.
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It's not really an alternative to GPS. It has no idea where on earth you are, it simply accurately tracks your motion through the world but it has no idea where that motion is occurring, you have to start off with a known starting point, then it tracks your motion to work out your current location. But it is only as accurate as the accuracy of the starting point, if that's off by 400 m then so will be the result.
It's basically a very good inertial navigation system, plus this isn't the first time it's been tested it's been tested on ships and planes before.
It's not going to replace GPS for commercial purposes because there's very few scenarios where you don't have a GPS up link. But it'll be useful is in situations where that's not possible like on submarines or yeah in space. It isn't like your car is ever going to use this though.
Great for missiles
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It's very cool how these devices find their location, though. When you first boot the system up, it spends about 5 minutes measuring the rotation of the Earth. For this reason, you can't reset it when in motion. Based on what it feels it can determine your exact location on the surface of the earth.
That gets you longitude but not latitude, right?
I don’t know how it does it but earth rotation speed will be different at different latitudes and elevations. Theoretically, a device sensitive enough might be able to determine precise location from just rotation speed and a very accurate geoid.
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Does anyone know how much more accurate this is compared to other interferometer gyroscopes like fiber-optics?
as far as i had read about it, accurate enough to rely on for a whole flight without worrying about drift
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Great for missiles
And in today's world, drones.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35701350
Yeah won't work without stars or a reference point.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35701350
So, this is just INS but with significantly smaller, finer measurements?
I'm pretty sure this'll potentially reduce the error rate of INS, but not fully eliminate it.
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