Collection of the Institute of Navigation
The collection of the Institute of Navigation includes commercial devices as well as developments for industry and applied research in the fields of positioning and navigation and associated teaching material for lectures and student exercises.
The objects document the research and development work of the Institute of Flight Navigation and the Institute of Navigation. The exhibits cover a period from around 1945 to 2018. The exhibits from the 1960s and 1970s show components and systems for flight navigation developed and built at the Institute which allowed electro-mechanical calculations of position and speed in real time and carried out typical calculations for dead reckoning. The calculation results were visualized for the pilot on automatically operated dead reckoning devices which were also developed at the institute and manufactured to industrial quality. Various gyroscopes and commercial, modified flight navigation instruments, which are also part of the collection, were used in these systems. The exhibits from the 1980s and 1990s show device developments for time synchronization (MITREX), satellite-based navigation (GPS) and remote sensing (active SAR calibrators), and airborne image-based laser scanning and short-range laser scanning. The navigational devices from the mid-1990s to 2018 document the academic and commercial developments in the combined evaluation of satellite navigation data and data from inertial measurement units based on Kalman filter algorithms.
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Aloysius Wehr
Institute of Navigation
