GPS modeling for designing aerospace vehicle navigation systems

The complexity of the design of a Global Positioning System (GPS) user segment, as well as the performance demanded of the components, depends on user requirements such as total navigation accuracy. Other factors, for instance the expected satellite/vehicle geometry or the accuracy of an accompanying inertial navigation system can also affect the user segment design. Models of GPS measurements are used to predict user segment performance at various levels. Design curves are developed which illustrate the relationship between user requirements, the user segment design, and component performance     

基于UKF的GPS/SINS组合导航直接式滤波算法

基于无迹卡尔曼滤波(UKF)方法,使用姿态、速度、位置等9个导航参数组成状态向量,以GPS系统输出的速度、位置组成6维观测向量,构建直接式结构的UKF滤波器。该滤波器能够直接反映系统导航参数的动态过程,准确显示运动状态演变。针对GPS/SINS组合导航系统的特点,构建了GPS/SINS组合导航直接式卡尔曼滤波仿真验证系统,仿真结果验证了基于UKF的GPS/SINS组合导航直接式滤波算法的有效性,该直接式非线性滤波算法可使惯性组合导航系统的导航精度得到提高。     

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.     

Ensuring GPS navigation integrity using receiver autonomousintegrity monitoring

The many advantages of Global Positioning System (GPS) based navigation have created a tremendous amount of interest in using GPS as the primary navigation aid onboard commercial and civil aircraft. Even in the presence of Selective Availability, the accuracy of GPS is sufficient to guide aircraft point-to-point between airports without requiring other navigation aids such as VOR or DME. Unfortunately, there is a finite probability that a GPS satellite will fail, causing the transmission of potentially misleading navigation information. Thus, before GPS can be widely adopted as a navigation aid, techniques must be devised to detect any possible failures and notify the user prior to the degradation of navigation accuracy. This paper discusses the problem of detecting possible GPS satellite failures using a technique called Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM)     

基于强跟踪滤波的GPS/INS组合导航系统对准技术研究

针对卡尔曼滤波鲁棒性较差的问题,研究了基于强跟踪滤波方法的GPS/INS对准。建立了GPS/INS组合导航系统对准的误差模型,对机载装备系统进行GPS/INS组合导航系统的对准仿真分析,验证该方案的可行性及强跟踪滤波器的性能。仿真结果表明,采用强跟踪滤波能够根据残差的变化求出渐消因子,能够在机动过程中有效跟踪系统状态量,从而提高对准精度和速度。采用强跟踪滤波的GPS/INS组合导航系统对准技术可以保证对准的快速性及对准精度,对工程应用具有重要的参考价值。     

改进粒子滤波算法及其在GPS/SINS组合导航中的应用

针对标准粒子滤波中存在的粒子退化问题,将无味卡尔曼滤波方法、线性规划方法与标准粒子滤波相结合,得到一种改进粒子滤波算法。改进粒子滤波算法中的重要性概率密度通过 UKF算法获得,从而使粒子使用效率得到提升;二次采样过程中加入线性规划方法,保证了粒子的多样性。将改进粒子滤波算法应用于 GPS/SINS组合导航,建立了 GPS/SINS组合导航模型,通过仿真验证了该滤波算法的有效性,使用该算法可使惯性组合导航系统导航精度得到提高。     

一种基于可观测度分析的SINS/GPS自适应-反馈校正滤波新方法

 针对机载捷联惯导系统(SINS)/全球定位系统（GPS）组合导航系统不完全可观测导致滤波器精度下降甚至发散的问题,提出了一种基于系统状态可观测度分析的自适应反馈校正滤波新方法。该滤波方法改进了系统可观测度的归一化处理方法,将归一化处理后的系统状态可观测度作为反馈因子,对SINS系统进行自适应反馈校正。最后,将该方法应用于机载合成孔径雷达(SAR)运动补偿用SINS/GPS组合导航系统中,飞行试验结果表明该方法在系统不完全可观测的情况下有效地提高了导航精度。     

GPS/SINS/SAR组合系统在弹道导弹末制导中的应用

在弹道导弹末制导中,由于多传感器组合导航系统的状态方程维数较大,因此应用集中滤波器处理会导致计算量大且容错性、可靠性不高。针对这种情况,采用无反馈模式的联邦滤波器,构建了GPS/SINS/SAR组合导航系统,并对其进行了仿真。仿真结果表明,该组合导航系统能较大地提高导弹的射击精度。     

晃动环境下组合导航系统精度事后评估算法研究

海风、波浪、海流等因素会产生舰船的摇摆晃动,从而给舰船导航系统精度带来严重干扰.固定区间平滑滤波处理算法能够利用观测时间间隔内全部观测信息得到状态的最小方差估计,对导航精度进行事后评估.在研究晃动环境下的SINS/GP S组合导航应用平滑滤波算法的相关原理的基础上,首先利用Kalman滤波器进行组合导航,存储相关信息后按时间逆序利用固定区间平滑滤波算法进行事后分析.该方法可以针对不同的海况以及不同的海上作业需求,有效地为组合导航系统精度提供检验标准,考核各种海洋环境下的导航系统精度.     

有色噪声作用下的机载INS/GPS组合导航方法

针对机载导航过程中有色噪声模型系数难以精确获取的问题,提出了一种基于滤波残差处理有色噪声的方法,并将其应用到INS/GPS组合导航系统中。首先分析了有色状态噪声和有色量测噪声对状态参数估值的影响,接着分别将状态残差和量测残差作为有色状态噪声和有色量测噪声的样本观测值,通过滤波所得的多个历元的残差序列获取拟合模型参数,然后计算有色噪声的预报值并将其进行补偿,从而得到有色噪声修正后的组合导航模型。最后设计了转台试验验证提出的有色噪声作用下的INS/GPS组合导航方法,结果表明该方法能有效地减小有色噪声对组合系统的影响,且当GPS暂时失效时,能显著提高系统的导航精度。     

GPS/INS integration on the Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM)

The Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM) is a worldwide, all-weather, precision-strike weapon system deployed from carrier-based aircraft. In the primary mode of operation, target location and other mission data are generated from intelligence sources available on the aircraft carrier and loaded into the missile prior to aircraft takeoff. After missile launch, the SLAM inertial navigation system (INS) guides the missile along the planned trajectory. Updating the missile INS from the Global Positioning System (GPS) during flight provides precise midcourse navigation and enhances target acquisition by accurate, on-target pointing of the SLAM Maverick seeker. The GPS/INS avionics and software integration used for SLAM are described in detail, along with some of the design tradeoffs that led to the approach. The avionics configuration integrates the Harpoon midcourse guidance unit, which includes a strapdown inertial sensor package and digital processor, with a Rockwell-Collins single-channel, sequential GPS receiver processor unit (RPU), a derivative of the GPS phase-III user equipment. In addition to the GPS receiver elements the RPU contains the navigation processor, which executes the SLAM navigation, Kalman filter algorithms, and other guidance algorithms including seeker pointing. Flight-test results of the SLAM GPS-aided INS are also included     

一种新型模糊自适应Kalman滤波器在组合导航中的应用

针对光纤陀螺捷联惯导(FOG SINS)/GPS组合导航系统实际工作环境中,由于系统噪声与量测噪声模型发生变化而带来的滤波器发散的问题,提出一种新型模糊自适应Kalman滤波器(FSHAKF).通过引入IMU精度因子与GPS水平精度因子,构造模糊推理系统(FIS),实时更新自适应参数,有效地解决了传统Sage-Husa自适应滤波器(SHAKF)估计模型不准确、系统噪声与量测噪声无法同时估计以及滤波器长时间易发散的问题.仿真实验表明,本文提出的FSHAKF算法相较于SHAKF算法,估计精度得到明显提高,且避免了滤波器的发散.     

基于嵌入式平台的MEMS/GPS 组合导航系统实现研究

主要研究基于PC104平台的MEMS/GPS组合导航系统硬件实现方法.首先设计了对MTi-30 MEMS器件与GPS接收机的数据采集软件,基于统计分析方法分析建立了传感器的误差模型参数,构建了MEMS/GPS组合算法模型,基于MEMS惯性器件和GPS接收机实测数据确定了Kalman滤波器的系统噪声阵及量测噪声阵模型参数;然后利用实际测量数据进行了MEMS/GPS组合系统导航性能仿真;最后基于PC 104嵌入式平台,构建了MEMS/GPS组合导航系统原理样机,分别在静态和动态情况下完成MEMS/GPS组合导航算法实时测试,导航结果验证了硬件平台及导航算法的正确性.     

一种适用于跑步状态的惯性/零速/GPS室内外无缝组合导航定位方法

目前，行人导航定位技术已经深入社会的众多领域，受到诸多学者的广泛关注。针对行人跑步状态，研究了一种惯性/零速/GPS室内外无缝组合导航定位方法。首先提出了可靠的、适用于行人跑步零速检测的方法，有效提高了在行人跑步状态下的零速检测的准确性。针对GPS信号容易受到高楼、高架等环境的干扰及在室内容易完全丢失的特点，提出了基于BP神经网络的GPS可用信号筛选方法，提高了GPS信息的可靠性与精准性。在此基础上，研究了基于可变量测的Kalman滤波器，实现了惯性/零速/GPS信息的有效融合，显著提高了在行人跑步状态下的导航定位精度。试验结果表明，所提出的这种适用于跑步状态的惯性/零速/GPS室内外无缝组合导航定位方法的平均定位误差可减小到行人跑步总里程的1%以内。     

User-level reliability monitoring in urban personal satellite-navigation

Monitoring the reliability of the obtained user position is of great importance, especially when using the global positioning system (GPS) as a standalone system. In the work presented here, we discuss reliability testing, reliability enhancement, and quality control for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning. Reliability testing usually relies on statistical tests for receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) and fault detection and exclusion (FDE). It is here extended by including an assessment of the redundancy and the geometry of the obtained user position solution. The reliability enhancement discussed here includes rejection of possible outliers, and the use of a robust estimator, namely a modified Danish method. We draw special attention to navigation applications in degraded signal-environments such as indoors where typically multiple errors occur simultaneously. The results of applying the discussed methods to high-sensitivity GPS data from an indoor experiment demonstrate that weighted estimation, FDE, and quality control yield a significant improvement in reliability and accuracy. The accuracy actually obtained was by 40% better than with equal weights and no FDE; the rms value of horizontal errors was reduced from 15 m to 9 m, and the maximum horizontal errors were largely reduced.     

基于交互式多模型的飞机编队相对导航算法研究

在飞机编队飞行时,成员间的相对位置信息是实现系统协同作战的重要保证,为了提高机群编队飞行的相对导航定位精度,在无地面基准的机群编队飞行JTIDS/GPS/TACAN/IFDL组合的相对导航系统中,采用交互式多模型扩展卡尔曼滤波(IMM-EKF)算法,设计实现了多传感器相对导航系统,克服了飞机动态模型参数变化导致使用单一动态模型滤波精度下降的问题。仿真分析结果表明,交互式多模型算法可以提高相对导航系统的定位精度和可靠性,特别在GPS可见卫星很少的情况下,依然能够具有良好的定位性能。     

Civil Access to NAVSTAR GPS

US government policy is established and procedures are being formulated to direct the implementation of techniques providing limited civil access to full GPS accuracy. The results of these efforts balance the conflicting needs of civil GPS navigation and positioning against national security requirements. Granting this access will require sufficient and demonstrable user need, must clearly provide for both national and security interests, and may lead to the imposition of a user service charge. This access will only apply to Precise Positioning Service configured, code-tracking GPS receivers.     

Prototype personal navigation system

Honeywell Laboratories recently funded the development of a prototype personal navigation system based on MEMS technologies. The system components include a MEMS inertial measurement unit, a three-axis magnetometer, a barometric pressure sensor, and a SAASM GPS receiver. The system also uses Honeywell's human motion-based pedometry algorithm. The navigation process is based on a strap-down inertial navigator aided by feedback from a Kalman filter using typical measurements from the GPS, magnetometer and barometer when available. A key innovation is the addition of an independent measurement of distance traveled based on the use of a human motion algorithm. The navigation system combines the best features of dead reckoning and inertial navigation, resulting in positioning performance exceeding that achieved with either method alone. Subsequent to the Honeywell effort, DARPA funded an individual Personal Inertial Navigation System (iPINS) seedling program. Honeywell worked to improve the baseline personal navigation system with the objective of demonstrating the feasibility of reliably achieving navigation accuracy < 1 % of distance traveled in GPS-denied scenarios. In addition, an analysis was conducted to determine the benefit of incorporating terrain correlation into the personal navigation system. The results of this analysis indicate that overall navigation accuracy can be significantly improved through the application of terrain correlation. This presents an are presented. In addition, conclusions from the terrain correlation analysis conducted under the iPINS seedling program are included.     

基于计算机视觉/GPS/MG姿态测量的盲人行走组合导航方法研究

电子导盲辅助装置(ETA)是解决盲人出行困难的重要手段,而导航是ETA的关键技术.现有的ETA主要用GPS来定位定向,但在城市环境中经常存在GPS信号遮挡导致导航信息丢失的问题.针对该问题,利用视觉导航短时间内定位精度高,输出连续的优点以及 MG(Magnetic Gravity)姿态测量可补偿姿态积累误差的优点,提出一种基于视觉、GPS和MG姿态测量的盲人行走组合导航算法.该方法构建系统误差模型并以Kalman滤波为框架.仿真和实验结果表明,提出的组合导航算法准确度优于单独的导航算法,满足盲人户外安全出行导航的需求.