Three-Dimensional ANP Evaluation Method Based on Spatial Position Uncertainty under RNP Operation

Abstract

Performance-based navigation (PBN) operations based on the required navigation performance (RNP) operations are the trend for civil aviation in the future. In order to further ensure the safety and efficiency of civil aviation operation, RNP will transition from 2D to 3D/4D. Accurately evaluating the actual navigation performance in three-dimensional directions (3D ANP) under civil aircraft RNP operation is important to guarantee the safe flight of civil aircraft. However, the traditional two-dimensional ANP evaluation method mainly focuses on plane navigation performance along the track, lacks the evaluation of the vertical direction. Moreover, the traditional three-dimensional accuracy evaluation method is based on the assumption of three-dimensional independence and uniformity, which can only carry out approximate calculation, and the evaluation result is inaccurate. Therefore, this paper constructs a three-dimensional ellipsoid error probability (EEP) evaluation model for the spatial position uncertainty of the navigation output of the flight management system in three-dimensional directions, and gives the three-dimensional accurate ANP calculation results through iterative numerical integration. The simulation results show that the evaluation method proposed in this paper can accurately evaluate the actual navigation performance of the airborne navigation system in all directions of 3D space, and has higher evaluation accuracy and precision than the traditional ANP evaluation method, which is of great significance to ensure the flight safety of civil aircraft under 3D/4D RNP operation in the future.

Keywords

• required navigation performance (RNP)
• flight management system (FMS)
• three-dimensional actual navigation performance (3D ANP)
• airborne integrated navigation system
• spatial position uncertainty
• three-dimensional ellipsoid probability error model (3D EEP)