On Qualitative Characteristics of the State Variable Observability in Linear Time-Varying Models of Inertial Navigation Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 346-354
Author(s):  
K. A. Neusypin ◽  
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M. S. Selezneva ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 224 ◽  
pp. 02024
Author(s):  
P.M. Trefilov ◽  
M.V. Mamchenko ◽  
A.V. Korol’kov

Strapdown inertial navigation systems (SINS) are one of the main components of the navigation systems of the drones and aircraft (including autonomous ones), but their readings need to be instanly corrected due to the constant accumulation of errors. This paper comprises the review of existing approaches to using one or more sensors or systems to correct the navigation data of SINS algorithms (herein after – correctors) using integrated information processing. A common disadvantage of the analysed approaches is the lack of flexibility concerning the types and the number of SINS correctors used, as well as the growth of computational burden due to the use of the measurement vectors of all the correctors in the process of forming the state vector of the system. This article proposes the use of the original adaptive scheme based on the selection of the least noisy data, taking into account environmental conditions, for the integrated processing of the SINS and the correctos’ navigation parameters. The essence of the approach is that the state vector is estimated on the basis of the most reliable corrector. This allows reducing the correlation of errors in the correctors’ measurement of navigational parameters, since only the measurement vectors (or vector) with best navigational data signal/noise ratio (received from the corresponding correctors) are used in forming the state vector. Furthermore, the proposed navigational data fusion scheme has a modular structure and greater flexibility in comparison with the loosely coupled systems, and also implies the use of an arbitrary number of correction sensors and systems regardless of the physical nature of their measurements.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (24) ◽  
pp. 8457
Author(s):  
James D. Brouk ◽  
Kyle J. DeMars

This paper investigates the propagation of estimation errors through a common coning, sculling, and scrolling architecture used in modern-day inertial navigation systems. Coning, sculling, and scrolling corrections often have an unaccounted for effect on the error statistics of inertial measurements used to describe the state and uncertainty propagation for position, velocity, and attitude estimates. Through the development of an error analysis for a set of coning, sculling, and scrolling algorithms, mappings of the measurement and estimation errors through the correction term are adaptively generated. Using the developed mappings, an efficient and consistent propagation of the state and uncertainty, within the multiplicative extended Kalman filter architecture, is achieved. Monte Carlo analysis is performed, and results show that the developed system has favorable attributes when compared to the traditional mechanization.


Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2947
Author(s):  
Ming Hua ◽  
Kui Li ◽  
Yanhong Lv ◽  
Qi Wu

Generally, in order to ensure the reliability of Navigation system, vehicles are usually equipped with two or more sets of inertial navigation systems (INSs). Fusion of navigation measurement information from different sets of INSs can improve the accuracy of autonomous navigation effectively. However, due to the existence of misalignment angles, the coordinate axes of different systems are usually not in coincidence with each other absolutely, which would lead to serious problems when integrating the attitudes information. Therefore, it is necessary to precisely calibrate and compensate the misalignment angles between different systems. In this paper, a dynamic calibration method of misalignment angles between two systems was proposed. This method uses the speed and attitude information of two sets of INSs during the movement of the vehicle as measurements to dynamically calibrate the misalignment angles of two systems without additional information sources or other external measuring equipment, such as turntable. A mathematical model of misalignment angles between two INSs was established. The simulation experiment and the INSs vehicle experiments were conducted to verify the effectiveness of the method. The results show that the calibration accuracy of misalignment angles between the two sets of systems can reach to 1″ while using the proposed method.


2012 ◽  
Vol 433-440 ◽  
pp. 2802-2807
Author(s):  
Ying Hong Han ◽  
Wan Chun Chen

For inertial navigation systems (INS) on moving base, transfer alignment is widely applied to initialize it. Three velocity plus attitude matching methods are compared. And Kalman filter is employed to evaluate the misalignment angle. Simulations under the same conditions show which scheme has excellent performance in precision and rapidness of estimations.


2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 297-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz Idczak ◽  
Stanislaw Walczak

We consider a Bolza problem governed by a linear time-varying Darboux-Goursat system and a nonlinear cost functional, without the assumption of the convexity of an integrand with respect to the state variable. We prove a theorem on the existence of an optimal process in the classes of absolutely continuous trajectories of two variables and measurable controls with values in a fixed compact and convex set.


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