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A steering and stabilization system for an aircraft or other vehicle including a device, for the determination of attitude of the vehicle, in which three, or alternatively, two magnetometers are mounted in the vehicle with respect to the direction of its fore-and-aft axis to determine each co-ordina

A steering and stabilization system for an aircraft or other vehicle including a device, for the determination of attitude of the vehicle, in which three, or alternatively, two magnetometers are mounted in the vehicle with respect to the direction of its fore-and-aft axis to determine each co-ordinate of a set of three orthogonal co-ordinates of attitude of the vehicle and in which the orthogonal co-ordinates determined by the magnetometers are transformed into respective geodetic co-ordinates. The system also includes an additional sensor of attitude to provide supplementary information relating to one of the co-ordinates of attitude determined by the magnetometers, and a microcomputer by which signals representative of the transformed co-ordinates and signals representative of the supplementary information are coupled and control signals, required for a control and adjustment system of the vehicle, are calculated in accordance with signals representative of a predetermined motion of the vehicle with which the microcomputer has been programmed.

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A steering and stabilization system for a vehicle including means for the determination of attitude of the vehicle comprising at least two magnetometers mounted in the vehicle and fixed with respect to the direction of the fore-and-aft axis thereof as to determine each coordinate of a set of three o

A steering and stabilization system for a vehicle including means for the determination of attitude of the vehicle comprising at least two magnetometers mounted in the vehicle and fixed with respect to the direction of the fore-and-aft axis thereof as to determine each coordinate of a set of three orthogonal coordinates of attitude of the vehicle, and an additional sensor of attitude to provide supplementary information relating to one of the coordinates of attitude determined by said magnetometers, each of said magnetometers being provided with means for inducing a compensating current to its magnetic core for a null point adjustment of its magnetic field for the attitude required for a predetermined course of the vehicle, the system also including a microcomputer on board of said vehicle including input means to receive and store data of the earth\s magnetic field, namely the inclination, declination and total intensity, relating to the operational region of the vehicle, as well as data of a predetermined course for said vehicle, and further including input means for the output signals of said magnetometers and said additional sensor, said microcomputer being programmed for the transformation of the orthogonal coordinates determined by said magnetometers into respective geodetic coordinates by said computer during use of the system, for coupling of signals representative of said transformed coordinates with signals representative of said supplementary information and calculating and generating control signals for the steering and stabilization system of the vehicle and for adjustment of said compensating current depending on the attitude required.