Data-Driven Meets Navigation: Concepts, Models, and Experimental Validation

One of the means to perform navigation is using a dead reckoning (DR) approach. In DR, given initial conditions, velocity or acceleration measurements are integrated to obtain the position. An inertial navigation system (INS) is the most popular tool working with DR principles. Its popularity stems from these facts: it provides a full navigation solution (position, velocity, and orientation), it is a standalone system capable of working in any environment (land, air, underground, underwater, indoors), and it is available in many different grades (ranging from low-cost low-performance to high-cost high-performance systems) [1-3].