HYBRID INERTIAL/STELLAR NAVIGATION METHOD WITH HARMONIZATION PERFORMANCE INDICATOR

A navigation method of a vehicle equipped with a star tracking device, a first inertial measurement device and a satellite positioning device, the star tracking device and the first inertial measurement device being connected to a single support. The method includes controlling movements of the support; simultaneously with these movements, calculating, in a horizontal plane, first positions of the vehicle, and second positions of the vehicle; calculating first deviations between the first positions and the second positions corresponding to each tracking heading and depicting them in a polar reference frame as a function of the corresponding heading and the values of the first deviations; carrying out a circular regression on said first deviations to determine, in this polar reference frame, a first circle; and determining a radius of the circle and a second deviation between a centre of the first circle and an origin of the polar reference frame.