Collision Vehicle Detection System Based on GPS/INS Integration

Continuous vehicle tracking as well as detecting accidents, are significant services that are needed by many industries including insurance and vehicle rental companies. The main goal of this paper is to provide methods to detect the position of car accident. The models consider GPS/INS-based navigation algorithm, calibration of navigational sensors, a de-nosing method as long as vehicle accident, expressed by a set of raw measurements which are obtained from various environmental sensors. In addition, the location-based accident detection model is tested in different scenarios. The results illustrate that under harsh environments with no GPS signal, location of accident can be detected. Also results confirm that calibration of sensors has an important role in position correction algorithm. Finally, the results present that the proposed accident detection algorithm can recognize accidents and related its positions.

基于VB-EKF的GPS/INS松组合导航定位算法

针对应用在无人机(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,UAV)中的全球定位系统/惯性导航系统(GPS/INS)松组合导航非线性系统受到外界噪声干扰导致量测噪声在滤波时不断变化,从而造成滤波精度下降等问题,提出一种变分贝叶斯扩展卡尔曼滤波(VB-EKF)算法。该算法利用EKF(Extended Kalman Filter)将非线性系统中的状态函数和量测函数展开为线性方程,并将两个不同的导航系统数据进行融合,避免了单系统导航定位发散的问题。考虑到组合系统中量测噪声的时变特性,引入变分贝叶斯算法进行改进,有效解决了系统滤波精度下降问题。仿真结果表明,VB-EKF较EKF算法可有效提高滤波稳定性,进而提高系统导航定位精度。

Modified Observation Model in Tightly-Coupled INS/GPS Integration

The conventional Kalman filter（CKF）is widely used in tightly-coupled INS/GPS integrated navigation systems.The linearization accuracy of the CKF observation model is one of the decisive factors of the estimation accuracy and therefore navigation accuracy.Additionally,the conventional observation model（COM）used by the filter may be divergent,which would result into some terrible accuracies of INS/GPS integration navigation in some cases.To improve the navigation accuracy,the linearization accuracy of the COM still needs further improvement.To deal with this issue,the observation model is modified with the linearization of the range and range rate equations in this paper.Compared with COM,the modified observation model（MOM）further considers the difference between the real user position and the position calculated by SINS.To verify the advantages of this model,INS/GPS integrated navigation simulation experiments are conducted with the usage of COM and MOM respectively.According to the simulation results,the positions（velocities）calculated using COM are divergent over time while the others using MOM are convergent,which demonstrates the higher linearization accuracy of MOM.

Novel approach to GPS/SINS integration for IMU alignment

Strapdown inertial navigation system（SINS） requires an initialization process that establishes the relationship between the body frame and the local geographic reference.This process,called alignment,is generally used to estimate the initial attitude angles.This is possible because an accurate determination of the inertial measurement unit（IMU） motion is available based on the measurement obtained from global position system（GPS）.But the update frequency of GPS is much lower than SINS.Due to the non-synchronous data streams from GPS and SINS,the initial attitude angles may not be computed accurately enough.In addition,the estimated initial attitude angles may have relatively large uncertainties that can affect the accuracy of other navigation parameters.This paper presents an effective approach of matching the velocities which are provided by GPS and SINS.In this approach,a digital high-pass filter,which implements a pre-filtering scheme of the measured signal,is used to filter the Schuler cycle of discrete velocity difference between the SINS and GPS.Simulation results show that this approach improves the accuracy greatly and makes the convergence time satisfy the required accuracy.

Cubature Kalman Filter Under Minimum Error Entropy With Fiducial Points for INS/GPS Integration

Traditional cubature Kalman filter(CKF)is a preferable tool for the inertial navigation system(INS)/global positioning system(GPS)integration under Gaussian noises.The CKF,however,may provide a significantly biased estimate when the INS/GPS system suffers from complex non-Gaussian disturbances.To address this issue,a robust nonlinear Kalman filter referred to as cubature Kalman filter under minimum error entropy with fiducial points(MEEF-CKF)is proposed.The MEEF-CKF behaves a strong robustness against complex nonGaussian noises by operating several major steps,i.e.,regression model construction,robust state estimation and free parameters optimization.More concretely,a regression model is constructed with the consideration of residual error caused by linearizing a nonlinear function at the first step.The MEEF-CKF is then developed by solving an optimization problem based on minimum error entropy with fiducial points(MEEF)under the framework of the regression model.In the MEEF-CKF,a novel optimization approach is provided for the purpose of determining free parameters adaptively.In addition,the computational complexity and convergence analyses of the MEEF-CKF are conducted for demonstrating the calculational burden and convergence characteristic.The enhanced robustness of the MEEF-CKF is demonstrated by Monte Carlo simulations on the application of a target tracking with INS/GPS integration under complex nonGaussian noises.

APPLICATION OF INTERVAL KALMAN FILTER TO AN INTEGRATED GPS/INS SYSTEM

An interval Kalman filter (IKF) algorithm based on the interval conditional expectation is applied to an integrated global positioning system/inertial navigation system (GPS/INS). Because the IKF algorithm is applicable only to linear interval systems, the extended interval Kalman filter (EIKF) algorithm for non linear integrated systems is developed. A high dynamic aircraft trajectory is designed to test the algorithm developed. The results of computer simulation indicate that the EIKF algorithm is consistent with the traditional SKF scheme, and is also effective for uncertain non linear integrated system.

DESIGN & REALIZATION ON GPS/INS INTEGRATED NAVIGATION SYSTEM

This paper deals with the research of the GPS/INS integrated navigation system applying Extended Kalman Filter, which involves integrated principles, scheme and technology of combining with real INS and GPS receiver data. Emphases are placed on the modeling of system errors and implementation of the integrated system. Both loose and tightly coupled GPS/INS integrated in schemes are analyzed. On the basis of our experience accumulated in the research of GPS/INS for many years, the GPS/INS integrated navigation developing system is developed. It can be put into efficient and economic use in the study and design of integrated navigation system. It plays an important role in the aeronautical and astronautical fields in China. This system is not only a computer aided design software but also a semi physical simulation system by obtaining real INS and GPS receiver data. So the key software unit of the developing system could be conveniently transferred into practical engineering software in actual hardware integrated system. The application of this system shows that the design ideas and integrated scheme of this development system are successful, and can achieve good navigation result.

GPS与INS的组合定位技术研究

组合定位技术是一种新的导航技术,能够使多个导航系统实现信息的互补性和协同性。其中,GPS和惯导结合是一种较为理想的组合定位系统,而深度融合模式是目前GPS和惯导(INS)联合使用的最佳方式,因此,对深度融合模式的研究显得尤为重要。

GPS/INS组合导航终端的全向位置驱离算法研究

随着微惯性导航系统技术的发展,越来越多的无人平台装备了GPS/INS组合导航终端并具备了一定的抗欺骗能力,但现有的卫星导航欺骗方法难以满足对欺骗目标任意方向的位置驱离需求。为解决这一问题,提出了一种GPS/INS组合导航终端的全向位置驱离算法,可用于对非法无人平台管控的场景。该方法以卫星欺骗信号的设计为突破口,首先分析了卫星导航欺骗对组合导航位置和状态参数的影响,接着将卫星导航欺骗对组合导航状态参数的影响量作为求取欺骗信号的约束条件,进而确定位置驱离所需卫星欺骗信号的欺骗量,接着利用确定的欺骗量建立全向位置驱离模型,最终利用建立的模型生成对应的欺骗信号实现对组合导航终端的全向位置驱离任务。试验验证了本文设计的算法能够实现对组合导航终端360°任意方向的位置驱离。

A FAST KALMAN FILTER FOR INTEGRATED GPS/INS BASED ON U-D FACTORIZATION

A fast U D factorization based Kalman filter for the 21 state integrated global positioning system and inertial navigation system (GPS/INS) is developed from the point of engineering implementation. The conventional Kalman filter is widely used for integration of GPS/INS, however, due to the model and numerical computation errors, the Kalman filter may diverge in engineering implementation. In order to solve this problem, an extended Kalman filter based on the U D factorization is proposed. Moreover, the high order integrated system suffers from the problem of long computation time, leading to difficulties in real time applications. An algorithmic approach is developed to improve the computational speed. A typical aircraft trajectory is simulated to compare the improvement in the computational speed and the navigation accuracy using the conventional Kalman filter and the fast Kalman filter based on the U D factorization. The results indicate that the methods proposed in this paper are very effective in overcoming these problems for the high dynamic integrated GPS/INS system.

Low-Cost GPSIINS Integrated Land-Vehicular Navigation System for Harsh Environments Using Hybrid Mamdani AFISIKF Model

Nowadays, GPS （global positioning system） receivers are aided by INS （inertial navigation systems） to achieve more precision and stability in land-vehicular navigation. KF （Kalman filter） is a conventional method which is used for the navigation system to estimate the navigational parameters, when INS measurements are fused with GPS data. However, new generation of INS, which relies on MEMS （micro-electro-mechanical systems） based low-cost IMUs （inertial measurement units） for the land navigation systems, decreases the accuracy and the robustness of navigation system due to their inherent errors. This paper provides a new method for fusing the low-cost IMU and GPS measurements. The proposed method is based on KF aided by AF1S （adaptive fuzzy inference systems） as a promising solution to overcome the mentioned problems. The results of this study show the efficiency of the proposed method to reduce the navigation system errors in comparison with KF alone.

Neural Network-based GPS/INS Integrated System for Spacecraft Attitude Determination

Global Positioning System （GPS） /Inertial Navigation System （INS） integrated system is continuously gaining research interests in many positioning and navigation fields. Kalman filtering-based integrated algorithm has some drawbacks on stability, computation load, robustness, and system observability performances. Based on neural network technology, a new GPS/INS integration filtering algorithm is studied for an integration scheme of the attitude determination GPS/INS integrated navigation system. Through some theoretic analysis, this algorithm not only has good estimation performance, but also has better robustness to the system model and noise than the traditional Kalman algorithm. To assess the performance of the proposed integrated model more deeply, some simulation is done to compare with the traditional Kalman filter model. The results indicate that the proposed model provides a significant improvement in some performance, such as accuracy, stability, robustness, and so on.

Accuracy improvement of GPS/MEMS-INS integrated navigation system during GPS signal outage for land vehicle navigation

To improve the reliability and accuracy of the global po- sitioning system （GPS）/micro electromechanical system （MEMS）- inertial navigation system （INS） integrated navigation system, this paper proposes two different methods. Based on wavelet threshold denoising and functional coefficient autoregressive （FAR） model- ing, a combined data processing method is presented for MEMS inertial sensor, and GPS attitude information is also introduced to improve the estimation accuracy of MEMS inertial sensor errors. Then the positioning accuracy during GPS signal short outage is enhanced. To improve the positioning accuracy when a GPS signal is blocked for long time and solve the problem of the tra- ditional adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system （ANFIS） method with poor dynamic adaptation and large calculation amount, a self-constructive ANFIS （SCANFIS） combined with the extended Kalman filter （EKF） is proposed for MEMS-INS errors modeling and predicting. Experimental road test results validate the effi- ciency of the proposed methods.

Adaptive Federal Kalman Filtering for SINS/GPS Integrated System

A new adaptive federal Kalman filter for a strapdown integrated navigation system/global positioning system (SINS/GPS) is given. The developed federal Kalman filter is based on the trace operation of parameters estimation's error covariance matrix and the spectral radius of update measurement noise variance-covariance matrix for the proper choice of the filter weight and hence the filter gain factors. Theoretical analysis and results from simulation in which the SINS/GPS was compared to conventional Kalman filter are presented. Results show that the algorithm of this adaptive federal Kalman filter is simpler than that of the conventional one. Furthermore, it outperforms the conventional Kalman filter when the system is undertaken measurement malfunctions because of its possession of adaptive ability. This filter can be used in the vehicle integrated navigation system.

ANALYSIS OF LEVER ARM EFFECTS IN GPS／IMU INTEGRATION SYSTEM

Disturbance specific force caused by the lever arm ef-fects in integration navigation system is investigated,Navigation errors eaused by the lever arm effects have been demonstrated under three flinght scenarios of the air-craft.Analytical under three flight scenarios of the ari-craft.Analytical results show that disturbance specific force resulted from lever arm effects may become one of the major error sources while an aircraft undertakes the maneuvers,and mavigation errors caused by the lever arm effects accumulate rapidly with time.Therefore,a com-pensation method must be taken into account to eliminate the disturbance specific force caused by the lever arm ef-fects in integration navigation system.

Hybrid Kalman and unscented Kalman filters for INS/GPS integrated system considering constant lever arm effect

In inertial navigation system(INS) and global positioning system(GPS) integrated system, GPS antennas are usually not located at the same location as the inertial measurement unit(IMU) of the INS, so the lever arm effect exists, which makes the observation equation highly nonlinear. The INS/GPS integration with constant lever arm effect is studied. The position relation of IMU and GPS's antenna is represented in the earth centered earth fixed frame, while the velocity relation of these two systems is represented in local horizontal frame. Due to the small integration time interval of INS, i.e. 0.1 s in this work, the nonlinearity in the INS error equation is trivial, so the linear INS error model is constructed and addressed by Kalman filter's prediction step. On the other hand, the high nonlinearity in the observation equation due to lever arm effect is addressed by unscented Kalman filter's update step to attain higher accuracy and better applicability. Simulation is designed and the performance of the hybrid filter is validated.

基于GPS/INS和线控转向的农业机械自动驾驶系统

研究旨在设计出一套农用车辆自动导航控制系统,让机器人代替农民进行田间作业,实现农用车辆自动驾驶,从而可以有效提高农业机械的作业精度、生产效率和使用安全性,并且为精细农业研究提供技术支持,改善农业生产的方法。该文通过GPS/INS（global positioning system/inertial navigation system）组合导航技术实时获得载体的导航信息（位置、速度、航向、姿态）,根据导航信息与预设轨迹参数计算出载体的目标前轮转向角,并以该目标前轮转向角与当前前轮转角的差值作为控制输入,实现对转向执行电机的精确控制,从而实现载体的路径跟踪控制。同时对整个系统的软硬件进行设计,并对系统控制策略进行仿真和试验验证。最终结果表明,本文所设计的组合导航系统定位精度高,其定位精度可达到0.1~0.5 m;路径跟踪系统误差小,当车速分别为0.5 m/s和1 m/s时,路径跟踪的最大横向误差分别为0.16 m和0.27 m;整个系统响应速度快,可达到0.1s。通过将GPS/INS组合导航技术与线控转向技术相结合,能够实现农用车辆的自动驾驶。

Integrated Data Processing Method for GPS and INS Field Test over Rocky Mountain

The method of integrated data processing for GPS and INS(inertial navigation system) field test over the Rocky Mountains using the adaptive Kalman filtering technique is presented. On the basis of the known GPS outputs and the offset of GPS and INS, state equations and observations are designed to perform the calculation and improve the navigation accuracy. An example shows that with the method the reliable navigation parameters have been obtained.

GPS/INS组合导航系统时间同步系统设计

为了说明高动态环境中时间同步对于组合导航系统的重要性,在Kalman滤波方程的基础上,推导了时间同步误差与Kalman滤波结果之间的定性关系。提出一种利用GPS接收机中1PPS(Pulse Per Second)信号作为同步标签的时间同步方法,将IMU中的数据加上精确的时间标签,从而达到时间同步的目的。全部时间同步功能由FPGA实现,利用Verilog HDL语言进行开发,整体硬件结构简单而且适用范围广。试验结果显示了这种时间同步设计可以明显减小滤波结果的估计误差,有效的提高了组合导航系统的定位精度。

基于模糊自适应卡尔曼滤波的INS/GPS组合导航系统算法研究

针对车载组合导航系统量测噪声统计特性随实际工作条件的不同而变化的特点,提出了一种基于模糊自适应卡尔曼滤波的车载INS/GPS组合导航算法。该方法通过监视理论残差与实际残差的比值是否在一附近,应用模糊推理系统不断的调整量测噪声协方差阵的加权,对卡尔曼滤波的量测噪声协方差阵进行递推在线修正,使其逐渐逼近真实噪声水平,从而使滤波器执行最优估计,提高导航系统的精度。对车载组合导航系统的仿真结果表明,这种算法对时变的量测噪声具有较强的自适应性,进而精度比常规卡尔曼滤波也大为提高,是一种可行的车载组合导航算法。