A low cost attitude estimation algorithm based on the integrated navigation aided with the GPS track angle is proposed to solve the problem that the direct multisensory fusion algorithm of the broad-band mobile satellite communication system is easily affected by the outside factors and estimation errors are difficult to correct. A navigation estimation model with 9 states is built by using the error margin equation including the location
the velocity and the attitude of the low cost inertial sensors as the system equations. A method to use the GPS track angle auxiliary observation is proposed to solve the problem that the yaw of the integrated navigation algorithm is weak and easily divergence. The turn rules and Sage-Husa adaptive control algorithm are proposed to relieve the effects of GPS measurement errors for Attitude estimation
and to improve the accuracy of real-time attitude estimations. Experimental results show that the estimation errors of the algorithm are within ±0.5 °
and is better than estimation error of the algorithm of direct multisensory fusion. The root-mean-square error of attitude estimation values is less than 0.4. It can be concluded that the proposed algorithm meets the requirement of the beam alignment for Mobile Satellite Communications.
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