scholarly journals A Novel Design for the Ultra-Tightly Coupled GPS/INS Navigation System

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dah-Jing Jwo ◽  
Chi-Fan Yang ◽  
Chih-Hsun Chuang ◽  
Kun-Chieh Lin
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Particle Filter ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
Doppler Frequency ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Gps Tracking ◽  
Doppler Velocity ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Tracking Loops ◽  
Number Of Particles

This paper presents a sensor fusion method for the Ultra-Tightly Coupled (UTC) Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS) integrated navigation. The UTC structure, also known as the deep integration, exhibits many advantages, e.g., disturbance and multipath rejection capability, improved tracking capability for dynamic scenarios and weak signals, and reduction of acquisition time. This architecture involves the integration of I (in-phase) and Q (quadrature) components from the correlator of a GPS receiver with the INS data. The Particle Filter (PF) exhibits superior performance as compared to an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) in state estimation for the nonlinear, non-Gaussian system. To handle the problem of heavy-tailed probability distribution, one of the strategies is to incorporate the UKF into the PF as the proposal distribution, leading to the Unscented Particle Filter (UPF). The combination of an adaptive UPF and Fuzzy Logic Adaptive System (FLAS) is adopted for reducing the number of particles with sufficiently good results. The GPS tracking loops may lose lock due to the signals being weak, subjected to excessive dynamics or completely blocked. One of the principal advantages of the UTC structure is that a Doppler frequency derived from the INS is integrated with the tracking loops to improve the receiver tracking capability. The Doppler frequency shift is calculated and fed to the GPS tracking loops for elimination of the effect of stochastic errors caused by the Doppler frequency. In this paper, several nonlinear filtering approaches, including EKF, UKF, UPF and ‘FLAS assisted UPF’ (FUPF), are adopted for performance comparison for ultra-tight integration of GPS and INS. It is assumed that no outage occurs such that the inertial sensor errors can be properly corrected and accordingly the aiding information is working well. Two examples are provided for performance assessment for the various data fusion methods. The FUPF algorithm with Doppler velocity aiding demonstrates remarkable improvement, especially in the high dynamic environments, in navigation estimation accuracy with reduction of number of particles.

scholarly journals Integration of GPS Precise Point Positioning and MEMS-Based INS Using Unscented Particle Filter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Abd Rabbou ◽  
Ahmed El-Rabbany
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Particle Filter ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
Precise Point Positioning ◽  
Unscented Kalman Filter ◽  
Inertial Sensor ◽  
Measurement Models ◽  
Unscented Particle Filter ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Point Positioning

Integration of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) integrated system involves nonlinear motion state and measurement models. However, the extended Kalman filter (EKF) is commonly used as the estimation filter, which might lead to solution divergence. This is usually encountered during GPS outages, when low-cost micro-electro-mechanical sensors (MEMS) inertial sensors are used. To enhance the navigation system performance, alternatives to the standard EKF should be considered. Particle filtering (PF) is commonly considered as a nonlinear estimation technique to accommodate severe MEMS inertial sensor biases and noise behavior. However, the computation burden of PF limits its use. In this study, an improved version of PF, the unscented particle filter (UPF), is utilized, which combines the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and PF for the integration of GPS precise point positioning and MEMS-based inertial systems. The proposed filter is examined and compared with traditional estimation filters, namely EKF, UKF and PF. Tightly coupled mechanization is adopted, which is developed in the raw GPS and INS measurement domain. Un-differenced ionosphere-free linear combinations of pseudorange and carrier-phase measurements are used for PPP. The performance of the UPF is analyzed using a real test scenario in downtown Kingston, Ontario. It is shown that the use of UPF reduces the number of samples needed to produce an accurate solution, in comparison with the traditional PF, which in turn reduces the processing time. In addition, UPF enhances the positioning accuracy by up to 15% during GPS outages, in comparison with EKF. However, all filters produce comparable results when the GPS measurement updates are available. Keywords: GPS; PPP; INS; EKF; UKF; UPF; tightly coupled

scholarly journals Integration of GPS Precise Point Positioning and MEMS-Based INS Using Unscented Particle Filter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Abd Rabbou ◽  
Ahmed El-Rabbany
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Particle Filter ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
Precise Point Positioning ◽  
Unscented Kalman Filter ◽  
Inertial Sensor ◽  
Measurement Models ◽  
Unscented Particle Filter ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Point Positioning

Integration of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) integrated system involves nonlinear motion state and measurement models. However, the extended Kalman filter (EKF) is commonly used as the estimation filter, which might lead to solution divergence. This is usually encountered during GPS outages, when low-cost micro-electro-mechanical sensors (MEMS) inertial sensors are used. To enhance the navigation system performance, alternatives to the standard EKF should be considered. Particle filtering (PF) is commonly considered as a nonlinear estimation technique to accommodate severe MEMS inertial sensor biases and noise behavior. However, the computation burden of PF limits its use. In this study, an improved version of PF, the unscented particle filter (UPF), is utilized, which combines the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and PF for the integration of GPS precise point positioning and MEMS-based inertial systems. The proposed filter is examined and compared with traditional estimation filters, namely EKF, UKF and PF. Tightly coupled mechanization is adopted, which is developed in the raw GPS and INS measurement domain. Un-differenced ionosphere-free linear combinations of pseudorange and carrier-phase measurements are used for PPP. The performance of the UPF is analyzed using a real test scenario in downtown Kingston, Ontario. It is shown that the use of UPF reduces the number of samples needed to produce an accurate solution, in comparison with the traditional PF, which in turn reduces the processing time. In addition, UPF enhances the positioning accuracy by up to 15% during GPS outages, in comparison with EKF. However, all filters produce comparable results when the GPS measurement updates are available. Keywords: GPS; PPP; INS; EKF; UKF; UPF; tightly coupled

scholarly journals Robust Adaptive Cubature Kalman Filter and Its Application to Ultra-Tightly Coupled SINS/GPS Navigation System

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 2352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Zhao ◽  
Jianli Li ◽  
Xunliang Yan ◽  
Shaowen Ji
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
Kinematic Model ◽  
Tracking Performance ◽  
Typical Application ◽  
Gross Error ◽  
Cubature Kalman Filter ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Robust Adaptive ◽  
High Dynamics

In this paper, we propose a robust adaptive cubature Kalman filter (CKF) to deal with the problem of an inaccurately known system model and noise statistics. In order to overcome the kinematic model error, we introduce an adaptive factor to adjust the covariance matrix of state prediction, and process the influence introduced by dynamic disturbance error. Aiming at overcoming the abnormality error, we propose the robust estimation theory to adjust the CKF algorithm online. The proposed adaptive CKF can detect the degree of gross error and subsequently process it, so the influence produced by the abnormality error can be solved. The paper also studies a typical application system for the proposed method, which is the ultra-tightly coupled navigation system of a hypersonic vehicle. Highly dynamical scene experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively process errors aroused by the abnormality data and inaccurate model, and has better tracking performance than UKF and CKF tracking methods. Simultaneously, the proposed method is superior to the tracing method based on a single-modulating loop in the tracking performance. Thus, the stable and high-precision tracking for GPS satellite signals are preferably achieved and the applicability of the system is promoted under the circumstance of high dynamics and weak signals. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by a highly dynamical scene experiment.

scholarly journals A Fault-Tolerant Filtering Algorithm for SINS/DVL/MCP Integrated Navigation System

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaosu Xu ◽  
Peijuan Li ◽  
Jian-juan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Doppler Velocity ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Integrated Navigation ◽  
Fusion Algorithm ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Integrated Navigation System ◽  
Short Period

The Kalman filter (KF), which recursively generates a relatively optimal estimate of underlying system state based upon a series of observed measurements, has been widely used in integrated navigation system. Due to its dependence on the accuracy of system model and reliability of observation data, the precision of KF will degrade or even diverge, when using inaccurate model or trustless data set. In this paper, a fault-tolerant adaptive Kalman filter (FTAKF) algorithm for the integrated navigation system composed of a strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS), a Doppler velocity log (DVL), and a magnetic compass (MCP) is proposed. The evolutionary artificial neural networks (EANN) are used in self-learning and training of the intelligent data fusion algorithm. The proposed algorithm can significantly outperform the traditional KF in providing estimation continuously with higher accuracy and smoothing the KF outputs when observation data are inaccurate or unavailable for a short period. The experiments of the prototype verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

scholarly journals Improved Underwater Integrated Navigation System using Unscented Filtering Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Shabani ◽  
Asghar Gholami
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
Inertial Navigation System ◽  
Inertial Navigation ◽  
Doppler Velocity ◽  
Integrated Navigation ◽  
Integrated Navigation System ◽  
Measurement Models ◽  
Error State ◽  
Filtering Approach

In underwater navigation, the conventional Error State Kalman Filter (ESKF) is used for combining navigation data where due to first order linearization of the nonlinear equations of the dynamics and measurements, considerable error is induced in estimated error state and covariance matrices. This paper presents an underwater integrated inertial navigation system using the unscented filter as an improved nonlinear version of the Kalman filter family. The designed system consists of a strap-down inertial navigation system accompanying Doppler velocity log and depth meter. In the proposed approach, to use the nonlinear capabilities of the unscented filtering approach the integrated navigation system is implemented in a direct approach where the nonlinear total state dynamic and and measurement models are utilised without any linearization. To our knowledge, no results have been reported in the literature on the experimental evaluation of the unscented-based integrated navigation system for underwater vehicles. The performance of the designed system is studied using real measurements. The results of the lake test show that the proposed system estimates the vehicle's position more accurately compared with the conventional ESKF structure.

scholarly journals Integration of GNSS-IMU for increasing the observation accuracy in Condensed Areas (Infrastructure and Forest Canopies)

2019 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 03015
Author(s):  
Mokhamad Nur Cahyadi ◽  
Irene Rwabudandi
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
Kalman Filters ◽  
Measurement Unit ◽  
Gps Receiver ◽  
Satellite Navigation System ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Gps Satellites ◽  
Tightly Coupled

Position determination using satellite navigation system has grown significantly. It provides geospatial with global coverage called GNSS (Global Navigation System Satellite). GNSS satellites consists of GLONASS, GPS (Global positioning system) and Galileo.GPS is the most commonly used system and it is known to its capability to determine 3D position on the surface of the earth. In order to determine the position, a GPS receiver must be able to receive signals from at least four GPS satellites. However, the determination of position in condensed areas such as tunnels, area surrounded by high rise buildings, highly forested and in other closely-knit areas is not achieved because satellite signals cannot reach the receiver in the above-mentioned areas and also others where the signals are reflected before being received by a GPS receiver. In this paper, we present the algorithm to fuse GPS and the inertial measurement unit (IMU) to enable positioning in the above-mentioned Condensed Areas. The standard deviations of the two measurements show that GPS-IMU is better than GPS alone, the standard deviation when satellite outages occurred is - 4.57475 for GPS-IMU measurements and 0.218675 for GPS observations. We presented the results in graphics and it shows that GPS measurements are easily disturbed by external influence such as multipath but GPS-IMU graphic is continuous and robust. The advantages and disadvantages of GPS and INS are complementary and make them work together to enable the accurate measurements in the areas mentioned above. Integration of INS and GNSS can be classified into three types, loosely coupled Kalman filter, tightly coupled Kalman filters and ultratight coupled Kalman filter. In this research we used loosely coupled Kalman filter and tightly coupled Kalman filters to combine GPS and INS in one system.

Federated Particle Filter Technology Based on JIDS/SINS/GPS Integrated Navigation System

2013 ◽  
Vol 347-350 ◽  
pp. 1544-1548
Author(s):  
Zi Yu Li ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Ping Zhu ◽  
Cheng Ying
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Particle Filter ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Integrated Navigation ◽  
Fusion Algorithm ◽  
Integrated Navigation System ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Federated Kalman Filter

In multi-sensor integrated navigation systems, when sub-systems are non-linear and with Gaussian noise, the federated Kalman filter commonly used generates large error or even failure when estimating the global fusion state. This paper, taking JIDS/SINS/GPS integrated navigation system as example, proposes a federated particle filter technology to solve problems above. This technology, combining the particle filter with the federated Kalman filter, can be applied to non-linear non-Gaussian integrated system. It is proved effective in information fusion algorithm by simulated application, where the navigation information gets well fused.

Kalman/Particle Filter for Integrated Navigation System

2013 ◽  
Vol 756-759 ◽  
pp. 2142-2146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhun Jiao ◽  
Rong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Particle Filter ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Method ◽  
Integrated Navigation ◽  
Computation Complexity ◽  
Integrated Navigation System ◽  
Simulation Results

Particle filter is introduced. Since the particle filter would bring hard computation, a new Kalman/Particle mixed filter used on SINS/GPS integrated navigation system was proposed. The new method divides the system into two sub-models, one is linear, the other one is nonlinear, and then implement Kalman filter and particle filter separately. The simulation results show that their performance is almost equal, but the computation complexity of the Kalman/particle filter is much lower than traditional particle filter.

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