Inertial navigation/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Inertial navigation.

Navigation method that does not depend on external references, but computes the present position by sensing the movement of the navigating platform from a precisely known starting point in space, using accelerometers to sense position changes from a reference provided by gyroscopes