Design and Development of a Real-Time DSP and FPGA-Based Integrated GPS-INS System for Compact and Low Power Applications

Emphasis of the present work is on an elegant real-time solution for GPS/INS integration. Micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) based inertial sensors are light but not accurate enough for inertial navigation system (INS) applications. An integrated INS/GPS system provides better accuracy compared with either INS or GPS, used individually. This paper describes an improved design and fabrication of a loosely coupled INS-GPS integrated system. The systems currently available use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and are, therefore, not optimized for compact, single supply, and low power requirements. In the proposed system, a digital signal processor (DSP) is used for inertial navigation solution and Kalman filter computations. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is used for creating an efficient interface of the GPS with the DSP. Direct serial interface of the GPS involve tedious processing overhead on the navigation processor. Therefore, a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART) and dual port random axis memory (DPRAM) are created on the FPGA itself. This also reduces the total chip count, resulting in a compact system. The system is designed to give real time processed navigation solutions with an update rate of 100 Hz. All the details of this work are presented.     

基于Starlink机会信号/INS的组合导航方法

针对全球卫星导航系统(GNSS)因频点单一、落地功率低、易受电磁干扰以及存在覆盖较差区域等潜在的被拒止或被干扰导致的导航系统性能降低甚至失效的问题,提出了一种基于星链(Starlink)机会信号融合惯性导航系统(INS)的飞行器动态组合导航方法。首先分析了星链信号体制,建立了基于星链星座卫星下行机会信号的瞬时多普勒定位观测模型,设计了一种基于频率细分的快速最大似然多普勒频率估计方法,然后建立了基于扩展卡尔曼滤波(EKF)的Starlink机会信号/INS的组合导航模型,并对该导航方法进行了实验及分析。结果表明,该方法可为飞行器提供长航时、连续、高精度的导航。动态飞行情况下,该方法可实现平均优于25 m的三维定位精度和平均优于0.1 m/s的速度估计精度,比相同观测时间下的惯导精度提高了1～2个数量级,显著提高了飞行器的导航精度,可为战略导航提供方法和技术支撑。     

卡尔曼滤波在某型组合导航系统模拟器中的应用

为提高某型GPS／INS组合导航系统模拟器模拟数据的真实性和飞行软件包、GPS模拟器、组合导航系统模拟器三者交联的有效性,在该模拟器中设计了卡尔曼滤波器。文中在介绍模拟器工作原理的基础上,建立了GPS／INS位置与速度组合方式下的卡尔曼滤波器的状态方程和量测方程,用U-D分解法建立了卡尔曼滤波方程,给出了纯惯导及组合后系统的位置与速度误差仿真曲线,并对仿真结果进行了系统测试,最后与其它模拟器进行了组网导航训练测试。     

弹道导弹天文/惯性导航误差修正方法研究

通过分析导弹天文导航和惯性导航的导航原理和误差模型,在基于充分利用高精度天文导航参数的思想上,提出了组合导航的误差修正方法。首先对两种导航参数进行了归算,而后提出了利用多次的天文测量参数对惯性测量误差进行修正的方法。该方法能较为准确地分离出引起射程误差较大的关机点速度、位置等的误差值,从而为实现利用天文导航进行射程误差修正提供前提条件。仿真计算表明,该方法是行之有效的。     

惯性／卫星组合导航开发平台的可视化仿真和实现

对惯性/卫星组合导航开发平台的可视化仿真及其实现进行了研究。该开发平台采用Visual++6.0语言进行编程,可进行实时导航动画显示,对惯性导航、GNSS及多种组合模态进行仿真运行,其结构和参数可由操作者根据实际情况选择或自行设定;特别针对不同的应用对象,可灵活地设置航迹和航路点,因此有较高的应用价值和实用意义,不失为设计组合导航系统的有力工具,在实际应用中对惯性/卫星组合导航系统研制和设计具有前瞻性和指导性。同时,模块化设计使该软件中的核心算法已方便地移植应用于实际工程组合导航系统中,收到了很好的效果。     

准实时性前斜视INS/SAR组合导航滤波算法研究

为消除常规利用正侧视SAR图像辅助导航信息对惯性误差进行修正时的滞后影响,结合前斜视SAR成像工作特性,本文分析提出了新的准实时性组合导航滤波方案和算法,以解决SAR/INS组合导航系统中的量测滞后影响;本文分析了前斜视SAR成像辅助导航系统工作特点,分析了SAR量测输出模型;建立了准实时性前斜视INS/SAR组合导航滤波算法模型,并通过仿真分析了组合导航系统性能。仿真结果表明：采用所提出的惯性/SAR组合方案和算法,可以有效克服成规正侧视SAR辅助匹配输出滞后的影响,有效满足组合系统性能要求。     

基于对偶四元数的INS/GPS组合导航算法研究

在基于对偶四元数的捷联惯导解算方法的基础上,推导了以惯性系作为导航系的惯导误差方程,在此基础上设计了卡尔曼滤波组合导航算法。通过激光惯导跑车采集数据,进行了仿真分析,试验结果表明,该组合导航算法能有效的消除惯导累积的速度误差和位置误差,相比于目前广泛应用的INS/GPS组合导航算法,本文描述了INS/GPS组合导航的另一种实现方式,获得了相当的精度,具有一定的工程应用价值。     

低轨星座/惯导紧组合导航技术研究CSCD

现有低轨(LEO)卫星导航研究主要以低轨星座独立导航定位和增强全球卫星导航系统(GNSS)导航定位为主,对低轨卫星和惯性导航系统(INS)组合导航技术研究较少。本文面向应用较小规模低轨星座资源实现米级定位精度的需求,提出了一种低轨星座/惯导紧组合导航方法,系统性地分析了不同规模低轨星座、不同精度级别惯导器件以及不同导航信号播发频度下组合导航定位的性能,并利用构建的仿真试验系统进行了低轨星座/惯导紧组合导航方法的仿真试验验证。试验结果表明,相较于低轨星座独立导航,低轨星座/惯导紧组合导航在星座不满足四重覆盖时仍能达到米级定位精度,并且在低轨星座规模较小和导航信号播发频度较低时,惯导测量精度对组合导航定位精度影响明显。研究结果表明,在利用低轨卫星进行导航时,通过引入惯性观测辅助低轨卫星导航,可有效提高导航效能和精度,为低轨星座和导航信号播发方式设计带来更多的选择。     

Multipath-adaptive GPS/INS receiver

Multipath interference is one of the contributing sources of errors in precise global positioning system (GPS) position determination. This paper identifies key parameters of a multipath signal, focusing on estimating them accurately in order to mitigate multipath effects. Multiple model adaptive estimation (MMAE) techniques are applied to an inertial navigation system (INS)-coupled GPS receiver, based on a federated (distributed) Kalman filter design, to estimate the desired multipath parameters. The system configuration is one in which a GPS receiver and an INS are integrated together at the level of the in-phase and quadrature phase (I and Q) signals, rather than at the level of pseudo-range signals or navigation solutions. The system model of the MMAE is presented and the elemental Kalman filter design is examined. Different parameter search spaces are examined for accurate multipath parameter identification. The resulting GPS/INS receiver designs are validated through computer simulation of a user receiving signals from GPS satellites with multipath signal interference present The designed adaptive receiver provides pseudo-range estimates that are corrected for the effects of multipath interference, resulting in an integrated system that performs well with or without multipath interference present.     

小型无人机的导航与制导仿真系统研究

研究了基于飞行器动力学模型的小型无人机的惯性组合导航与制导系统仿真技术,组合导航系统嵌入了飞行器的轨迹和姿态控制回路,建立了基于MATLAB/AEROSIM的组合导航计算机仿真系统,仿真系统包括惯性组合导航仿真模块、传感器仿真支持模块、飞行器6自由度动力学模型模块、飞行器轨迹生成、轨迹控制与姿态控制模块、导航仿真评估模块。基于该仿真系统,目前已开展惯性/卫星深组合、惯性/大气数据融合等理论算法和技术研究。     

车载捷联惯导与里程计组合导航技术研究

惯导的误差随着时间增长是积累的,可采用里程计辅助捷联惯导构成纯自主的车载组合导航系统.利用捷联惯导的速度和里程计测量的速度之差作为观测量,通过卡尔曼滤波技术校正惯导的导航参数,可以有效地抑制惯导误差的积累,提高导航参数的精度.本文推导了组合导航系统的模型,从理论上用特征值方法分析了系统的可观测度,进而设计轨迹进行了仿真...     

平流层飞艇升降阶段BPNN惯性导航算法

软式平流层飞艇艇体在上升和下降时经常呈堆叠状态，GPS信号会被艇体间歇性遮挡，因而只能采用惯性导航。为保证在飞艇上升和下降过程中，INS/GPS组合导航系统在被艇体遮挡GPS时仍能够提供满足精度要求的导航信息，设计了一种改进的反向传播神经网络(Back Propagation Neural Network, BPNN）惯性导航算法。采用神经网络，根据惯性导航系统在1s内的速度均值和姿态变化量，预估其在1s末的位置误差和速度误差，并对惯性导航结果进行修正。仿真实验和跑车试验结果表明，在GPS失效的30s内，新算法使得位置误差低于15m，速度误差低于0.7m/s，误差相比纯惯性导航降低了85%。     

GPS Aided Inertial Navigation

The Global Positioning System is an extremely accurate satellite-based navigation system which, after its completion in 1989, will provide users worldwide, 24 hour. all weather coverage. A joint research project among Boeing, Rockwell-Collins, and Northrop has been completed in which a GPS receiver was integrated with a low-cost strap-down inertial navigation system and a flight computer. A Kalman filter in the latter allows in-fight alignment and calibration of the INS. In addition, feedback from the INS to the GPS receiver improves the system's ability to reacquire satellite signals after outages. The resulting system combines the accuracy of GPS with the jamming immunity and autonomy of inertial navigation. System tests were conducted in which a Boeing owned T-33 jet aircraft was flown through known test pattern to align and calibrate the INS. Earlier tests, including tests against an airborne jammer, were conducted in a modified passenger bus.     

机抖激光陀螺捷联系统动力学建模及结构动特性设计方法

机抖激光陀螺捷联系统普遍采用抖频偏频技术消除闭锁效应的影响,这使得激光惯导成为自带激励源的动力学系统,动力学系统结构参数的设计将影响陀螺抖动效率和陀螺测量精度。在陀螺抖动驱动力条件下,建立了包含激光惯导箱体、惯性测量本体、陀螺、减振器、抖轮在内的较为完整的动力学模型,给出了该模型的解答过程和Matlab仿真计算结果,讨论了不同结构参数对抖动效率及惯导精度的影响规律,并在此基础上提出了激光惯导结构基于动特性设计的原则和方法。经验证,该方法能够有效指导结构转动惯量等参数设计,提高了设计质量,有效避免了激光惯导由结构设计不足而导致的动力学问题。     

Hybrid Simulation System Study of SINS/CNS Integrated Navigation

In flight tests, to demonstrate the performance of integrated navigation systems, which are strapdown inertial navigation systems/celestial navigation systems (SINS/CNS), will involve a lot of effort and a heavy financial budget. So, it is important to design a functional self-contained hardware in a loop simulation system on the ground for solving the verification of SINS/CNS integrated navigation systems. Aiming at solving the main program, a high precision, versatile and better real-time performance hybrid simulation system of SINS/CNS integrated navigation is presented. The system adopts the design of hardware-functional modularization and software-flow integration, and makes use of a trajectory generator to produce simulated nominal trajectory data which is a uniform reference to signal process, and employs unique time synchronization algorithms to collect actual errors data of inertial sub-system and celestial sub-system. By combining with nominal trajectory data, the data smoothing, all-sky autonomous star map identification and integrated navigation algorithm based on unscented Kalman filtering (UKF), this system can accomplish a lot of system performance testing. It has the features of flexibility and extensibility and can be used to effectively reduce the experimental expense and shorten the development time of integrated navigation system, which is significant for studying algorithm performance, system speciality, and practical application of integrated navigation system.     

基于铱星/INS组合定位技术在船舶中的应用研究

GNSS拒止环境下惯性/GNSS组合导航系统的性能会严重恶化,通过利用并提取机会信号中的有用观测量,可以实现机会信号和惯性系统的联合动态定位。提出了利用铱星/INS组合定位技术实现船舶的动态定位。首先深入研究了铱星的信号体制,建立了利用铱星瞬时多普勒频移进行定位的算法模型;然后,提出了利用基于扩展卡尔曼滤波(EKF)技术的铱星机会信号与INS组合定位算法;最后,通过船舶航行实测数据对所提算法进行了试验验证。结果表明,提出的利用铱星机会信号和INS组合定位方法可以有效改善无GNSS信号条件下的INS定位精度,在GNSS信号拒止环境下解决了船舶定位问题,具有重要的研究意义和实用价值。     

Spatial Gauss-Markov Models of Ocean Currents

Ocean currents are an important error source in marine inertial navigation systems (INS). Satellite radar altimeter data are used to construct self- consistent Gauss- Markov models of ocean currents. These models are useful for INS error analysis and optimal (Kalman) filtering of INS outputs.     

基于INS/GNSS紧耦合组合的逐步诱导式欺骗检测算法研究

传统惯性辅助GNSS欺骗信号检测方法对小于纯惯导误差漂移的逐步拉偏不敏感。针对这一问题,提出了一种基于INS/GNSS紧耦合组合的逐步诱导式欺骗信号检测方法。基于短时间内纯惯性导航结果和短时间惯导系统位置误差传播模型,利用惯导提供的位置和速度对伪距和伪距率时间序列进行预测估算,并结合伪距、伪距率实际测量结果,分别构造位置/伪距和速度/伪距率时间序列模型做参数拟合。基于真实信号得到的模型参数都是由惯导系统误差造成的,具有一致性;而基于逐步诱导式欺骗信号得到的模型参数还与欺骗策略的设定、载体飞行轨迹的观测以及干扰源的位置有关,具有不一致性。通过对比模型参数可判别欺骗信号的存在,对于真实信号,采用紧耦合组合导航修正INS输出;对于欺骗信号,继续惯性导航并采取相应措施。最后,根据逐步诱导式欺骗原理进行实验仿真,验证了算法的可行性和有效性。     

An advanced flight control and navigation system implementation fortactical helicopters

US Army helicopters that will allow single-crewmember operability in tactical environments require a high degree of automation. A tightly integrated flight control and navigation system has been studied. An architecture is discussed which meets anticipated flight control and navigation requirements, at an acceptable weight, using techniques of functional and physical integration. The architecture maximizes the sharing of sensor and computational resources in a flight critical environment and uses modular equipment packaging, dual fault-tolerant tetrad ring-laser-gyro inertial measurement units, and triplex self-checking processor pair-based flight critical processing channels