Aiming at the problem of poor observability of measurement information in the loosely-coupled integration of the inertial navigation system (INS) and the wireless sensor network (WSN), this paper presents a tightl...Aiming at the problem of poor observability of measurement information in the loosely-coupled integration of the inertial navigation system (INS) and the wireless sensor network (WSN), this paper presents a tightly-coupled integration based on the Kalman filter (KF). When the WSN is available, the difference between the distances from the blind node(BN) to the reference nodes (RNs) measured by the INS and those measured by the WSN are used as measurement information for the KF due to its better observability and independence, which can effectively improve the accuracy of the KF. Simulations show that the proposed approach reduces the mean error of the position by about 50% compared with loosely-coupled integration, while the mean error of the velocity is a little higher than that of loosely-coupled integration.展开更多
基金The National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)(No.2009CB724002)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.50975049)+3 种基金the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(No.20110092110039)the Aviation Science Foundation(No.20090869008)the Six Peak Talents Foundation in Jiangsu Province(No.2008143)Program of Scientific Innovation Research of College Graduate in Jiangsu Province(No.CXLX_0101)
文摘Aiming at the problem of poor observability of measurement information in the loosely-coupled integration of the inertial navigation system (INS) and the wireless sensor network (WSN), this paper presents a tightly-coupled integration based on the Kalman filter (KF). When the WSN is available, the difference between the distances from the blind node(BN) to the reference nodes (RNs) measured by the INS and those measured by the WSN are used as measurement information for the KF due to its better observability and independence, which can effectively improve the accuracy of the KF. Simulations show that the proposed approach reduces the mean error of the position by about 50% compared with loosely-coupled integration, while the mean error of the velocity is a little higher than that of loosely-coupled integration.