Applications of zero-velocity detector and Kalman filter in zero velocity update for inertial navigation system

Author(s):  
Li Xiaofang ◽  
Mao Yuliang ◽  
Xie Ling ◽  
Chen Jiabin ◽  
Song Chunlei
2012 ◽  
Vol 546-547 ◽  
pp. 1360-1365
Author(s):  
Xing Xing Dai ◽  
Ling Xie ◽  
Yu Liang Mao ◽  
Chun Lei Song

Zero Velocity Update (ZUPT) is an essential method of error control in Stapdown Inertial Navigation System (SINS), which is extensively used because of its cheapness and efficiency. ZUPT uses the output of velocity error of SINS when the carrier is parking, to update the errors of other items in SINS. This method can improve the position and direction precisions of SINS. Kalman filter is chosen as the method of ZUPT to correct the velocity and position errors in SINS in this article. The method of ZUPT based on Kalman filter is applied to the vehicle experiment. The results of the vehicle experiment indicate that the ZUPT based on Kalman filter is efficient and powerful in error control, and the Kalman filter designed based on SINS is proper.


2012 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 323-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ushaq ◽  
Jian Cheng Fang

Inertial navigation systems exhibit position errors that tend to grow with time in an unbounded mode. This degradation is due, in part, to errors in the initialization of the inertial measurement unit and inertial sensor imperfections such as accelerometer biases and gyroscope drifts. Mitigation to this growth and bounding the errors is to update the inertial navigation system periodically with external position (and/or velocity, attitude) fixes. The synergistic effect is obtained through external measurements updating the inertial navigation system using Kalman filter algorithm. It is a natural requirement that the inertial data and data from the external aids be combined in an optimal and efficient manner. In this paper an efficient method for integration of Strapdown Inertia Navigation System (SINS), Global Positioning System (GPS) and Doppler radar is presented using a centralized linear Kalman filter by treating vector measurements with uncorrelated errors as scalars. Two main advantages have been obtained with this improved scheme. First is the reduced computation time as the number of arithmetic computation required for processing a vector as successive scalar measurements is significantly less than the corresponding number of operations for vector measurement processing. Second advantage is the improved numerical accuracy as avoiding matrix inversion in the implementation of covariance equations improves the robustness of the covariance computations against round off errors.


Complexity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lijun Song ◽  
Zhongxing Duan ◽  
Bo He ◽  
Zhe Li

The centralized Kalman filter is always applied in the velocity and attitude matching of Transfer Alignment (TA). But the centralized Kalman has many disadvantages, such as large amount of calculation, poor real-time performance, and low reliability. In the paper, the federal Kalman filter (FKF) based on neural networks is used in the velocity and attitude matching of TA, the Kalman filter is adjusted by the neural networks in the two subfilters, the federal filter is used to fuse the information of the two subfilters, and the global suboptimal state estimation is obtained. The result of simulation shows that the federal Kalman filter based on neural networks is better in estimating the initial attitude misalignment angle of inertial navigation system (INS) when the system dynamic model and noise statistics characteristics of inertial navigation system are unclear, and the estimation error is smaller and the accuracy is higher.


Author(s):  
Mahdi Fathi ◽  
Nematollah Ghahramani ◽  
Mohammad Ali Shahi Ashtiani ◽  
Ali Mohammadi ◽  
Mohsen Fallah

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 741-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.I. Liu ◽  
Zhixiong Li ◽  
Zhichao Zhang

A Laser Scanning aided Inertial Navigation System (LSINS) is able to provide highly accurate position and attitude information by aggregating laser scanning and inertial measurements under the assumption that the rigid transformation between sensors is known. However, a LSINS is inevitably subject to biased estimation and filtering divergence errors due to inconsistent state estimations between the inertial measurement unit and the laser scanner. To bridge this gap, this paper presents a novel integration algorithm for LSINS to reduce the inconsistences between different sensors. In this new integration algorithm, the Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (RBFNN) and Singular Value Decomposition Unscented Kalman Filter (SVDUKF) are used together to avoid inconsistent state estimations. Optimal error estimation in the LSINS integration process is achieved to reduce the biased estimation and filtering divergence errors through the error state and measurement error model built by the proposed method. Experimental tests were conducted to evaluate the navigation performance of the proposed method in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments. The navigation results demonstrate that the relationship between the laser scanner coordinates and the inertial sensor coordinates can be established to reduce sensor measurement inconsistencies, and LSINS position accuracy can be improved by 23·6% using the proposed integration method compared with the popular Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) algorithm.


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