组合导航系统中一种基于特征值分解的自适应信息融合滤波算法

基于分散滤波理论的联合滤波算法,可以有效地降低组合导航系统的计算负担,并且增强系统的容错性能。给出了一种联合滤波算法中信息分配系数的自适应计算方法,能够使联合系统根据导航过程中各传感器的信息质量的变化合理地反馈全局信息。仿真结果表明,该算法可以有效地降低由于导航子系统降级带来的滤波误差。     

JIDS/SINS/GPS组合导航系统两级故障检测结构设计

针对传统组合导航系统故障检测方法不能同时准确检测突变故障及缓变故障的不足,提出了一种两级故障检测结构。这种结构采用联邦滤波器结合了残差χ2检测法易于检测突变故障和状态χ2检测法易于检测缓变故障的优势,在JIDS/SINS/GPS组合导航系统中得到了成功应用。仿真表明,这种方法对突变故障和缓变故障都达到了较好的检测效果。此外,此方法没有改变联邦滤波器原有结构,检测准确度高,计算量小,是一种便于工程实现的检测方法。     

基于置信度加权的组合导航数据融合算法

 针对联邦滤波融合算法中由于模型量测噪声统计特性未能被准确描述导致其子滤波器误差变大，进而导致联邦滤波估计出现偏差的问题，为了改进联邦滤波融合方法，将模糊自适应卡尔曼滤波方法和置信度加权方法与联邦滤波融合方法相结合，应用于组合导航系统。该方法首先将模糊自适应卡尔曼滤波方法应用于各子滤波器，使其能够跟踪真实量测噪声统计特性。然后通过模糊方法计算得到各子滤波器的置信度，进而得到联邦滤波器的置信度，再由得到的置信度对各子滤波器及联邦滤波器输出进行加权，得到最终的全局输出。对车载组合导航系统的仿真结果表明，这种算法对量测噪声具有较强的自适应性，能够抑制置信度低的子滤波器在融合系统中所占的权重，提高联邦滤波融合算法的精度，是一种可行的车载组合导航数据融合算法。     

容错多传感器组合导航系统发展综述

对容错组合导航系统的基本理论、联邦滤波器的设计方法、特点进行了分析；指出联邦滤波器在时间和空间上为组合导航系统的容错设计提供了条件；同时对组合导航系统故障诊断、故障隔离和系统重构方法进行了研究。     

基于联邦滤波的SINS/GNSS/OD/高度计多源组合导航算法研究

针对城市情况下车载导航时单一导航源易受干扰的问题,提出了一种基于自适应联邦Kalman滤波的多源组合导航算法.该模型具有两级结构,由子滤波器进行各信息源局部估计后,通过主滤波器进行最优融合估计.融合具有不同工作特点的导航传感器的输出信息组成多源信息组合导航系统,从而提高了导航系统的精度和鲁棒性,且通过故障诊断算法实时检测并隔离故障信息源.给出了联邦滤波算法设计,并进行了实际车载实验.实验结果表明,该算法能够提高导航系统的稳定性及精度.     

再论联邦滤波在组合导航中的应用可行性

在联邦滤波算法中，针对子滤波器存在私有状态从而导致全局状态信息融合估计为次优估计的问题，通过一个简单的3维状态、2维量测系统的数值仿真以及速度+姿态传递对准组合导航仿真，验证了联邦滤波的次优估计结果误差太大，难以满足实际系统的高精度滤波需求。联邦滤波估计的次优程度没有经过严格证明，且难以证明，因而存在应用风险。对于以精度为主要性能指标的组合导航系统，不建议采用联邦滤波算法，否则其精度损失不足以弥补其带来的计算量降低和容错性提高的优势。     

基于联邦滤波的多源融合导航算法

在复杂多变环境下,单一导航源的定位性能和鲁棒性会受到一定的影响。针对汽车、小型飞行器在城市、峡谷、卫星信号缺失或被遮挡以及导航信息源繁多等情况,研究了基于联邦滤波的多源融合导航算法。该算法综合利用了各种不同的信息源,经过多传感器的高度集成、多信息源的数据融合,生成时空基准统一且具有抗干扰、连续、可靠的PNT服务信息。设计的联邦滤波器采用两级结构,在子滤波器中进行局部估计后,在主滤波器中进行最优合成。此外,每个子滤波器加入了故障诊断算法,且结合自适应滤波理论进行信息因子的自适应分配,有效提高了故障检测能力。最后,通过实验验证了不同信息源组合的有效性,表明所设计的基于联邦滤波的多源融合算法可以提供稳定、可靠以及高精度的多源融合定位服务,具有一定的研究意义和实际价值。     

一种具有容错性的分散化滤波算法

先介绍了联邦滤波器和方差交叉滤波器,然后结合上述两种方法,提出了一种具有容错性的分散化滤波方法,证明了这种方法是次优的,并给出了确定信息融合因子的算法,最后通过一个组合导航系统的仿真例子验证了这种方法是可行的和有效的。     

A relative navigation system for formation flight

A relative navigation system based on both the Inertial Navigation System (INS) and the Global Positioning System (GPS) is developed to support situational awareness during formation flight. The architecture of the system requires an INS/GPS integration across two aircraft via a data link. A fault-tolerant federated filter is used to estimate the relative INS errors based on relative GPS measurements and a range measurement obtained from the data link. The filter is constructed based on a reduced-order model of the relative INS error process. A method for analyzing the filter performance is presented. A case involving two helicopters in formation flight is studied under three different night trajectories to account for the effect of vehicle motion on the INS state transition matrix. The results of the covariance analysis are compared with actual night results over an instrumented test range.     

Filtering of moving targets using SBIR sequential frames

In this paper three-dimensional (3-D) finite-impulse response (FIR) filters are proposed for moving target detection and tracking from multiframe space-based infrared (SBIR) data. An optimal, in the l_p sense, 3-D FIR filter design technique is proposed which is suitable for the above application. This technique is the first 3-D FIR design of its kind presented in the open literature. Directional, matched, and adaptive 3-D filtering techniques are proposed. Prior to the filtering, clutter mean estimation and mean subtraction are required. Real time implementation of directional and/or matched filters for processing maneuvering targets is discussed and filter design methods are proposed. Finally, performance comparisons of the proposed and other available 3-D FIR and infinite-impulse response (IIR) filters, on real SBIR data, are presented in which the advantages of the proposed 3-D filters are shown     

基于联邦滤波结构的INS／GPS组合导航系统数据融合研究

为了研究平台式惯导INS（interial navigation system）和全球定位系统GPS（globe position system）组合导航联邦滤波器的实现,使用速度局部滤波器和位置局部滤波器,分别对INS／GPS组合导航系统的向东速度、向北速度,以及对经度和纬度进行卡尔曼滤波,然后将位置数据和速度数据输入主滤波进行数据融合。以无人机的向东匀速水平飞行为背景,运用联邦卡尔曼滤波器算法,使用matelab进行仿真分析。可以证明联邦滤波器算法简单,易于实现,并且可以提高导航系统精度．实际应用中此方法可行。     

基于改进联邦Kalman滤波的组合校准方法研究

联邦滤波器广泛应用于多传感器信息融合领域,联邦滤波中的信息分配原则影响滤波精度.针对联邦Kalman滤波器进行改进,采用基于估计协方差阵奇异值动态确定信息分配系数.对子滤波器进行重置时,采用新的重置方法,保证了子滤波器误差协方差阵的对称性,确保Kalman滤波器的一致收敛稳定性.新的联邦滤波算法允许每个状态分量拥有不同的动态信息分配因子,从而改进了联邦滤波信息融合的精度.设计了SINS/GPS/电子罗盘组合导航系统,仿真结果说明,与传统联邦滤波算法相比,改进的联邦滤波器估计精度得到了提高,可以更好地对SINS误差进行校准,提高系统的精度.     

Multiple model nonlinear filtering for low signal ground target applications

The design and implementation of a multiple model nonlinear filter (MMNLF) for ground target tracking using ground moving target indicator (GMTI) radar measurements is described. Like the well-known interacting multiple model Kalman filter (IMMKF), the MMNLF is based on the theory of hybrid stochastic systems. However, since it models the probability distribution for the target in a region, rather than just the distribution's first and second moments, a nonlinear filter is able to capture more fine-grained detail of the target motion and requires fewer models than typical IMMKF implementations. This is illustrated here with a two-model MMNLF in which one motion model incorporates terrain constraints while the second is a nearly constant velocity (CV) model. Another feature of the MMNLF is that it enables incorporation of prethresholded measurements. To implement the filter, the target state conditional probability density is discretized on a set of moving grids and recursively updated with sensor measurements via Bayes' formula. The conditional density is time updated between sensor measurements using alternating direction implicit (ADI) finite difference methods, generalized for this hybrid application. In simulation testing against low signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) targets, the MMNLF is able to maintain track in situations where single model filters based on either of the component models or filters that use thresholded data fail. Potential applications of this work include detection and tracking of foliage-obscured moving targets.     

Navigation system design using time-varying complementary filters

A new methodology for the design of navigation systems for autonomous vehicles is introduced. Using simple kinematic relationships, the problem of estimating the velocity and position of an autonomous vehicle is solved by resorting to special bilinear time-varying filters. These are the natural generalization of linear time-invariant complementary filters that are commonly used to properly merge sensor information available at low frequency with that available in the complementary region. Complementary filters lend themselves to frequency domain interpretations that provide valuable insight into the filtering design process. This work extends these properties to the time-varying setting by resorting to the theory of linear differential inclusions and by converting the problem of weighted filter performance analysis into that of determining the feasibility of a related set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Using this set-up, the stability of the resulting filters as well as their "frequency-like" performance can be assessed using efficient numerical analysis tools that borrow from convex optimization techniques. The mathematical background that is required for complementary time-varying filter analysis and design is introduced. Its application to the design of a navigation system that estimates position and velocity of an autonomous vehicle by complementing position information available from GPS with the velocity information provided by a Doppler sonar system is described.     

Square root parallel Kalman filtering using reduced-order localfilters

The basic parallel Kalman filtering algorithms derived by H.R. Hashemipour et al. (IEEE Trans. Autom. Control. vol.33, p.88-94, 1988) are summarized and generalized to the case of reduced-order local filters. Measurement-update and time-update equations are provided for four implementations: the conventional covariance filter, the conventional information filter, the square-foot covariance filter, and the square-foot information filter. A special feature of the suggested architecture is the ability to accommodate parallel local filters that have a smaller state dimension than the global filter. The estimates and covariance or information matrices (or their square roots) from these reduced-order filters are collated at a central filter at each step to generate the full-size, globally optimal estimates and their associated error covariance or information matrices (or their square roots). Aspects of computational complexity and the ensuing tradeoff with communication are discussed     

Decentralized reduced-order filters

Continuous and discrete methods of designing simple reduced-order local filters within a large-scale network are suggested. The filters are designed to estimate only the local variables of interest and not the entire state vector. The method has the advantage that one need not know the mathematical models of the subsystems generating the interconnection variables. The order of the filter can be small enough so that there is no computational burden associated with the filter. The disadvantage of the method is that performance is lost by using a reduced-order filter instead of a full-order filter. An example that demonstrates one application in the aerospace industry is presented     

Simultaneous spacecraft attitude and orbit estimation using magnetic field vector measurements

Based on magnetometer measurements only, three-axis attitude, rate, and orbit estimation are successfully achieved. A single Augmented Dynamics Extended Kalman Filter (ADEKF) is configured by combining the spacecraft nonlinear attitude dynamics and quaternion kinematics with orbital mechanics. The filter design is adopted for three-axis stabilized spacecraft in low Earth orbits where the aerodynamic drag is the dominant source of disturbances in addition to the spacecraft magnetic residuals. To reduce the computational burden, another Interlaced Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) is developed to uncouple the attitude/rate from the orbit dynamics. Both filters are implemented using the magnetometer measurements and their corresponding time derivatives. As a part of EgyptSat-1 flight scenario, detumbling and standby modes are used for performance testing of the ADEKF. The concept of local observability is applied to the basic filter and the stability is investigated by incorporating extensive Monte Carlo simulations with uniformly distributed initial conditions. The filter shows the capability of estimating the attitude better than 5 deg and rate of order 0.03 deg/s in each axis. In orbit estimation, the filter is capable of estimating the position with accuracy less than 8 km and velocity upto 5 m/s in each axis.     

A minimax approach to the design of Doppler filters

The detection of a target in correlated clutter, thermal noise, and extraneous interference is considered. The amplitude, phase and Doppler frequency of the signal are not known a priori. A general criterion is presented which measures the performance of a suboptimal test relative to an optimal test. The criterion is encompassed into a design procedure used to design Doppler filters. The procedure allows many design considerations to be taken into account, and results in a design which attempts to minimize the number of filters required. For low dimensionality the procedure results in single filter designs; for higher dimensionality multiple filters are designed. The performances of these systems are compared with the results obtained by Emerson (1978) and Andrews (1974). It is found that the procedure yields good filter designs under general conditions and may reduce the number of filters required compared with classical designs     

基于FPGA的多通道数字信号下变频器设计

研究了无线通信接收机中。经A／D转换后到基带处理前的中频信号的下变频处理。提出了用FPGA实现多通道数字信号下变频的新设想。通过分析CIC滤波器、HB滤波器和多相滤波器的特点和性能，将它们与抽取器相结合．对MD转换后的数据进行抽取，降低了信号采样率，减轻了后续DSP处理基带信号的压力。结合一个具体的多信道信号．通过软件仿真和在FPGA器件的实现，证明了该方案的正确性。此设计方案集CIC滤波器、HB滤波器和多相滤波器的优点于一身。使设计出的数字信号下变频器能够处理更高频率的信号。     

任意采样率变换数字重构滤波器设计

针对理想重构函数在数字信号域不可实现而直接截取性能较差的情况,根据信号重构理论和FIR（Finite Impulse Response,有限脉冲响应）滤波器窗函数设计法,分析不同窗函数、不同截取长度对重构滤波器的影响,提出一种凯塞窗任意采样率变换数字重构滤波器设计方法.该方法通过选择合适的窗参数、截取长度、重构滤波器时域精度和量化位数,有效控制阻带最小衰减抑制数字重构镜像.设计的数字重构滤波器已成功应用于某卫星基带调制解调器,符合镜像抑制大于65 dB的性能要求.