Low-cost INS/GPS with nonlinear filtering methods

For land-based navigation, Euler angles are often used in INS/GPS integrated navigation systems. However, the trigonometric operations required in the updates and forming of the rotation matrices for transforming the INS measurements from the body frame to the navigation frame turns the system model...

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Main Authors: Junchuan Zhou, Edwan, E, Knedlik, S, Loffeld, O
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Earth
Equations
Euler angles
Global Positioning System
INS/GPS
Kalman filters
Mathematical model
nonlinear filtering
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Summary:For land-based navigation, Euler angles are often used in INS/GPS integrated navigation systems. However, the trigonometric operations required in the updates and forming of the rotation matrices for transforming the INS measurements from the body frame to the navigation frame turns the system model to be highly nonlinear. Besides, using low-cost MEMS-based IMUs, the gyroscope bias errors must be correctly estimated and compensated, which makes the nonlinearity problem a critical one. In this contribution, three Kalman filtering methods (i.e., Extended Kalman filter with simplified system model, Extended Kalman filter with linearized system model and Unscented Kalman filter with nonlinear system model) are utilized in INS/GPS tightly-coupled integration. Simulations and field experiments are conducted. Numerical results are compared in terms of both estimation accuracy and processing time.
DOI:10.1109/ICIF.2010.5712023