Adaptive Error-state Kalman Filter for Attitude Determination on a Moving Platform

Author(s):  
Jingjing He ◽  
Changku Sun ◽  
Baoshang Zhang ◽  
Peng Wang
Author(s):  
Baojian Yang ◽  
Lu Cao ◽  
Dechao Ran ◽  
Bing Xiao

Due to unavoidable factors, heavy-tailed noise appears in satellite attitude estimation. Traditional Kalman filter is prone to performance degradation and even filtering divergence when facing non-Gaussian noise. The existing robust algorithms have limited accuracy. To improve the attitude determination accuracy under non-Gaussian noise, we use the centered error entropy (CEE) criterion to derive a new filter named centered error entropy Kalman filter (CEEKF). CEEKF is formed by maximizing the CEE cost function. In the CEEKF algorithm, the prior state values are transmitted the same as the classical Kalman filter, and the posterior states are calculated by the fixed-point iteration method. The CEE EKF (CEE-EKF) algorithm is also derived to improve filtering accuracy in the case of the nonlinear system. We also give the convergence conditions of the iteration algorithm and the computational complexity analysis of CEEKF. The results of the two simulation examples validate the robustness of the algorithm we presented.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siwen Guo ◽  
Jin Wu ◽  
Zuocai Wang ◽  
Jide Qian

Orientation estimation from magnetic, angular rate, and gravity (MARG) sensor array is a key problem in mechatronic-related applications. This paper proposes a new method in which a quaternion-based Kalman filter scheme is designed. The quaternion kinematic equation is employed as the process model. With our previous contributions, we establish the measurement model of attitude quaternion from accelerometer and magnetometer, which is later proved to be the fastest (computationally) one among representative attitude determination algorithms of such sensor combination. Variance analysis is later given enabling the optimal updating of the proposed filter. The algorithm is implemented on real-world hardware where experiments are carried out to reveal the advantages of the proposed method with respect to conventional ones. The proposed approach is also validated on an unmanned aerial vehicle during a real flight. Results show that the proposed one is faster than any other Kalman-based ones and even faster than some complementary ones while the attitude estimation accuracy is maintained.


2014 ◽  
Vol 602-605 ◽  
pp. 2958-2961
Author(s):  
Tao Lai ◽  
Guang Long Wang ◽  
Wen Jie Zhu ◽  
Feng Qi Gao

Micro inertial measurement unit integration storage test system is a typical multi-sensor information fusion system consists of microsensors. The Federated Kalman filter is applied to micro inertial measurement unit integration storage test system. The general structure and characteristics of Federated Kalman filter is expounded. The four-order Runge-Kutta method based on quaternion differential equation was used to dispose the output angular rate data from gyroscope, and the recurrence expressions was established too. The control system based ARM Cortex-M4 master-slave structure is adopted in this paper. The result shown that the dimensionality reduced algorithm significantly reduces implementation complexity of the method and the amount computation. The filtering effect and real-time performance have much increased than traditionally method.


2012 ◽  
Vol 116 (1178) ◽  
pp. 373-389
Author(s):  
Y. Jiao ◽  
J. Wang ◽  
X. Pan ◽  
H. Zhou

Abstract The satellite attitude determination approach based on the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) has been widely used in many real applications. However, the accuracy of this method largely depends on the fitness of measurement model. We aim to analyse the influence of measurement errors to the accuracy of EKF based attitude determination approach in this paper. The measurement errors, which are divided into structural error and nonstructural error by their influences, are analysed in principle. In the setting of the combination of star sensors and gyros, according to the property of innovation, we employ the technique of correlation test to analyse the influences of different kinds of measurement errors. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our previous analysis.


Author(s):  
ChanYoung Kim ◽  
EungChang Mason Lee ◽  
JunHo Choi ◽  
JinWoo Jeon ◽  
SeokTae Kim ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Man Ho Choi ◽  
Robert Porter ◽  
Bijan Shirinzadeh

The performances of three attitude determination algorithms are compared in this paper. The three methods are the Complementary Filter, a Quaternion-based Kalman Filter and a Quaternion-based Gradient Descent Algorithm. An analysis of their performance based on an experimental investigation was undertaken. This paper shows that the Complementary Filter requires the least computational power; Quaternion-based Kalman Filter has the best noise filtering ability; and the Quaternion-based Gradient Descent Algorithm produced estimates with the highest accuracy. As many attitude determination methodologies make use of the quaternion rotation representation, the attitude quaternion to Euler angle singularity property has been investigated. Experiments conducted show that when Y-rotation approach the singularity position (±90°), the X-rotation drifts away from the reference input. This paper proposes the use of an imaginary set of sensor measurements to replace the original sensor measurements as the Y-rotation approaches the singularity. The proposed methodology for overcoming the conversion singularity has been experimentally verified.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel V. Vitali ◽  
Ryan S. McGinnis ◽  
Noel C. Perkins
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