The invention discloses an integrated
navigation system and method based on an SINS and a
star sensor. The integrated
navigation system comprises the SINS, the
star sensor and a filter, wherein the SINS is used for detecting the attitude information of a carrier, and amending the attitude information according to the optimum estimate of a state error term; the
star sensor is used for acquiring the
longitude and
latitude, in a star sensor coordinate
system, of an imaged fixed star, the direction unit vector, in a geocentric
inertial coordinate system, of a reference fixed star matched with the imaged fixed star, and the
longitude and
latitude, in the star sensor coordinate
system, of the reference fixed star; when the number of
fixed stars observed by the star sensor is one or two, the filter is used for acquiring the optimum estimate of the state error term of the SINS according to an observation equation, wherein the observation equation is established by taking a
longitude and
latitude difference as a state quantity and by taking the pre-established
error equation of the SINS as a state equation, and the longitude and latitude difference is composed of the longitude difference and latitude difference, in the star sensor coordinate
system, between the reference fixed star and the imaged fixed star. According to the invention, the application range of the integrated
navigation system can be widened.