Special relativity, even though it's over 100 years old, is still one of the most puzzling and perplexing discoveries about the nature of the Universe itself. The (Newtonian) laws of physics that ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) today announced that its Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit (Scalable SIRU(TM)) has been selected as the inertial reference unit of choice for Boeing Space ...

Inertial navigation systems use information provided by accelerometers and gyroscopes to provide the position and orientation of an object relative to a predetermined origin point, orientation and ...

Researchers have discovered a sophisticated neural computer, buried deep in the cerebellum, that performs inertial navigation calculations to figure out a person's movement through space. Researchers ...

When a platform’s mission requires maneuvering among different environments, transitions between these environments may mean that a single method cannot solve the full positioning, navigation and ...