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Chapter 3 / Sensors / Barometric Altimeter<br />

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3.6 Barometric Altimeter<br />

Interest in barometers in the civil aviation community has been re-kindled as<br />

a result of the reduction the clearance height between aircraft in air corridors<br />

with a consequential impact on the military. The result has been a 10-fold<br />

improvement in sensor accuracy with high stability for use in these safety<br />

critical systems. Barometers are designed with a dynamic lag to damp out<br />

short term pressure fluctuations making them ideal for long term<br />

stabilisation of integrated accelerometer outputs in inertial navigation<br />

systems. Barometers are rarely used in long-range missiles due to location<br />

problems not experienced with radar altimeters and GPS receivers, whereas<br />

on aircraft location is less of a problem.<br />

3.6.1 Description<br />

Barometric altimeters and equivalent pressure transducers measure the static<br />

pressure above sea-level which is converted into geodetic height above the<br />

earth using standard atmospheric data.<br />

REFERENCE<br />

INPUT<br />

1<br />

PZ_GDM<br />

BAROMETER<br />

ERROR MODEL<br />

3.6-1<br />

M_PZ_GDM I_PZ_GDM<br />

BAROMETER<br />

1553 I/F<br />

GUI<br />

1<br />

2<br />

E_PZ_GDM<br />

Figure 3-36 : Barometric Altimeter Model<br />

In military aircraft any constant bias present in the barometer is usually<br />

calibrated out during their INS warm-up on the ground using a known<br />

reference height leaving only a residual error that is applied in the model<br />

shown in Figure 3-36.<br />

3.6.2 Reference Barometric Altitude<br />

The reference height of the missile above the earth’s surface,<br />

ZG<br />

d,<br />

m<br />

G<br />

E<br />

E E G<br />

( ) kˆ P − P<br />

P : = T ⋅<br />

•<br />

m<br />

d<br />

Equation 3.6-1<br />

This data is provided at a reference frequency (BAfR) of 400 Hz. The<br />

transform from the Earth frame to LGA, and the Earth radius at point (d)<br />

beneath the missile, are defined in §17.10 and §18.3 respectively.

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