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.     

An integrated GPS/MEMS-IMU navigation system for an autonomous helicopter

During the last years, there is an increasing demand for cheap and easy to operate platforms for surveillance and reconnaissance purposes. Therefore, the development of micro aerial vehicles is receiving an increasing attention. However, VTOL-MAVs often show an inherent instability that makes at least an automatic stabilization necessary, because otherwise the operator would not be able to keep these vehicles airborne. This requires the availability of navigation information, especially the vehicle's attitude has to be known.This paper addresses the development of an integrated navigation system based on MEMS inertial sensors and GPS for a VTOL-MAV. Special attention is paid to the handling of GPS outages. While usually periods without GPS aiding can be bridged using the unaided strapdown solution, the poor quality of the MEMS inertial sensors prohibits this approach here. Therefore, during GPS outages the accelerometer data is interpreted as approximate measurements of the local gravity vector. Additionally, the usage of a magnetometer providing measurements of the Earth's magnetic field is motivated and discussed. Finally, flight test results illustrate the performance of the resulting system, proving that the achieved attitude accuracy is sufficient for the automatic control of the MAV. This holds in situations with permanent GPS loss and dynamic maneuvering, too.     

低成本多传感器组合导航系统在小型无人机自主飞行中的研究与应用

为了满足小型无人机自主控制系统对导航系统性能的要求,研究低成本的基于微机电系统的捷联惯性导航系统(MEMS-SINS)/全球定位系统(GPS)/磁强计组合导航系统。提出一种利用磁强计辅助MEMS-SINS的静基座初始姿态确定方法,采用四元数误差模型对MEMS-SINS/GPS/磁强计组合导航系统进行信息融合的建模,采用基于正交三角(QR)分解的平方根无色卡尔曼滤波(UKF)非线性估计方法对组合导航系统进行数据融合,克服由于计算机舍入误差引起的状态协方差阵的计算值失去非负定性甚至对称性,通过小型无人机的自主飞行试验,证实MEMS-SINS/GPS/磁强计组合导航算法满足小型无人机自主控制系统的要求。     

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.     

Constructive neural-networks-based MEMS/GPS integration scheme

This article exploits the idea of developing an alternative data fusion scheme that integrates the outputs of low-cost micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) inertial measurements units (IMUs) and receivers of the global positioning system (GPS). The proposed scheme is implemented using a constructive neural network (cascade-correlation network (CCNs)) to overcome the limitations of conventional techniques that are predominantly based on the Kalman filter (KF). The CNN applied in this research has the advantage of having a flexible topology if compared with the recently utilized multi-layer feed-forward neural networks (MFNNs) for inertial navigation system (INS)/GPS integration. The preliminary results presented in this article illustrate the effectiveness of proposed CCNs over both MFNN-based and Kalman filtering techniques for INS/GPS integration.     

行人导航系统中的MEMS误差在线修正技术

在基于微惯性器件的行人导航系统中,陀螺仪和加速度计的偏移是降低系统定位精度的重要因素。传统的标定方法大多在实验室中进行,后续导航解算都是基于标定后的固定模型,然而MEMS器件长时间工作后,标定模型参数发生变化会导致系统导航性能下降。通过分析行人导航系统及MEMS器件的特点,提出了一种基于误差模型的MEMS器件参数在线修正方法。根据行人行走的特点,检测并区分行走过程中的可修正区间与不修正区间。在可修正区间基于逆向解算算法实现了对陀螺仪和加速度计零偏的在线修正,并提出了主航向反馈修正算法,提高了行人导航系统长时间导航性能。实验结果表明,40m行走实验中,系统定位精度提升了9.07%;300m行走实验中,系统定位精度提升了13.14%。     

基于改进的磁场检验和主方向算法的行人航向估计

针对以惯导为核心的行人定位算法存在航向角失真的问题，提出了一种融合惯性测量单元(IMU)和磁力计的行人导航算法，利用步幅航向的变化量将行人的运动分为直线行走和曲线行走两部分，当检测到行人直线行走时，提出一种实时建立主方向的自适应航向角漂移修正算法，对航行角误差进行补偿；当行人曲线行走时，辅助地磁场信息，使用磁场强度、地磁倾角、惯性导航系统(inertial navigation system，INS)与磁力计解算的航向角之差这三个特征值构建广义似然比检验量，对磁场进行判断获得稳定状态磁场信息，通过卡尔曼滤波对航向角误差进行补偿。将传感器置于足部进行实验，实验结果表明,两种算法可以实现优势互补，有效地抑制地磁信息的干扰，提高导航精度，算法结果相对于无航向角修正的零速修正算法、零角速度更新算法和单独使用磁力计进行融合的算法，定位误差分别降低了91.02%、82.93%和61.39%，室外和室内终点定位误差分别为4.545 4 m和0.543 6 m，占总路程的0.69%和0.17%。     

一种基于无线信号辅助的室内无死角定位算法

针对传统惯性导航系统定位误差随时间积累的问题,提出了一种基于无线信号辅助定位的室内无死角定位算法。该算法首先利用加速度计、陀螺仪、磁力计和气压计等传感器数据实现三维定位,然后利用无线信号对惯导定位中的位置偏差进行实时校正,再通过航向最优估计算法对航向误差进行修正,在位置和航向上增强惯导系统的实用性。利用实验室自主研发的微惯性测量单元固定在腰部脊椎位置进行实验验证,结果显示基于无线信号辅助的室内无死角定位算法精度达到1%以内,与纯惯导技术相比,能够提供更持久和准确的三维位置信息。     

一种基于外推信息的惯导/陆基单站导航修正方案

提出了一种基于外推信息的陆基单站测距信息惯导修正方案,该方案一方面利用陆基测距系统融合捷联惯导系统（SINS）的导航信息进行惯导误差修正,充分发挥惯导系统和陆基导航系统各自的优点,进行系统间的取长补短,有效地减小导航误差;另一方面将陆基/SINS修正结果送入状态估计器求解法向速度,解算实时载体轨迹的待修正量,进而执行载体速度和方向修正,进一步提高了导弹命中精度。     

Autonomous airborne navigation in unknown terrain environments

We address the issue of autonomous navigation, that is, the ability for a navigation system to provide information about the states of a vehicle without the need for a priori infrastructure such as GPS, beacons, or a map. The algorithm is known as simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) and it is a terrain aided navigation system (TANS) which has the capability for online map building, and simultaneously utilising the generated map to bound the errors in the navigation solution. Since the algorithm does not require any a priori terrain information or initial knowledge of the vehicle location, it presents a powerful navigation augmentation system or more importantly, it can be implemented as an independent navigation system. Results are first provided using computer simulation which analyses the effect of the spatial density of landmarks as well as the quality of observation and inertial navigation data, and then finally the real time implementation of the algorithm on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).     

基于任务的微机电惯性系统规模化测试技术研究

针对传统惯性测试技术测试周期长、测试效率低、测试成本高等问题,提出了基于任务的微机电惯性系统规模化测试解决方案。研究分析了微机电惯性系统测试技术的研究现状和发展趋势,建立了基于任务的微机电惯性系统测试体系,详细论证了微机电惯性系统批量、并行、自动化测试解决方案的可行性,为微机电惯性系统规模化测试实践奠定了基础。     

带FDI算法的无人机组合导航姿态确定控制系统设计

无人机导航系统的作用是提供导航数据给飞控计算机作为制导和控制用,因为飞控计算机的性能在很大程度上依赖于导航数据,导航系统的某一个错误可能会导致整个无人机的失败,因此,导航系统应具有故障检测和隔离(FDI)算法,介绍了一种用于无人机导航的FDI和低成本的组合导航系统,硬件包括低成本商业用MEMSIMU、GPS接收器、磁力计和导航计算机,软件包括带FDI算法的卡尔曼滤波。     

基于极限学习机的黑障区智能导航算法

在黑障区飞行阶段中,惯性导航系统会因缺少辅助导航系统而持续累积误差,导致飞行器导航系统可靠性下降。针对这一问题,提出了一种新的基于极限学习机的黑障区智能导航算法,通过极限学习机(ELM)对GPS正常工作的导航信息进行学习。在黑障区,利用学习得到的模型对惯性导航系统进行误差补偿,较好地修正了当GPS失锁时惯性导航系统的误差,避免了因误差累积而导致的导航信息发散。仿真结果表明,该算法能够保证在GPS失锁的黑障区中导航系统输出的信息有较好的可靠性和精度,能够为接下来的姿态调整和着陆准备提供良好的基础。     

MEMS惯测技术在管道测绘系统中的应用

针对小口径管道的测绘问题,提出了一种MEMS惯测装置在小管道测绘系统中应用的方法,直接利用地标点信息为MEMS惯测装置装订初始方位,采用因子图理论对惯性/里程计组合导航信息进行处理,通过后续处理对装订误差进行修正,解决了MEMS惯测装置无法完成初始对准的问题。给出了惯性/里程计组合导航的因子图以及和积算法递推公式,并通过牵引试验对所提方法进行了验证。试验结果表明,提出的应用方法能够有效解决小口径管道的测绘问题,在100m间隔的路标点条件下,单边定位精度能够达到5cm。     

面向室内场景的惯性磁感应定位方法

针对卫星拒止的室内导航问题,在现有磁信标定位技术的基础上,通过分析低频旋转磁场的特点,建立了一种不受传感器姿态和磁信标磁矩信息影响的磁感应矢量夹角观测模型,并结合MEMS惯性导航的误差模型提出了一种以磁感应矢量夹角的正余弦值为量测信息的惯性磁感应动态定位方法,避免了磁传感器姿态误差和磁矩误差对定位结果的影响。利用实验室的双轴磁信标实验系统进行静态测试,验证了磁感应定位模型具有不受传感器姿态、环境中遮挡物以及磁矩影响的特点;通过数值仿真的方式对基于无迹卡尔曼滤波(UKF)的惯性磁感应定位方法进行验证,结果表明该方法能有效地抑制惯性导航的发散,且位置最大误差小于0.75 m,满足大多数室内场景下的高精度导航定位需求。     

基于气动模型辅助的四旋翼飞行器室内自主导航方法

 惯性/卫星/磁传感器/气压高度计组合导航系统是四旋翼飞行器常用的导航方案。但在室内飞行时,由于卫星导航系统不可用,该导航方案的测速及定位精度难以满足四旋翼飞行器的自主飞行需求,从而制约了其室内自主飞行能力。为解决该问题,在利用四旋翼飞行器气动模型的基础上,提出了惯性/磁传感器/声纳传感器/气动模型组合导航方案。通过分析四旋翼飞行器的气动模型特性,揭示了气动模型辅助自主导航的内在机理;提出了气动模型辅助导航算法,并设计了具体的实施流程。最后,结合OS4型四旋翼飞行器的气动模型特点,搭建了气动模型辅助导航方案的验证平台,对四旋翼飞行器的室内悬停与机动飞行进行了仿真模拟。仿真结果表明,气动模型辅助导航方案可以显著提高室内飞行时的测速与定位精度。该方案无需增加其他传感器,具有自主性强、成本低和零载重的优点,在四旋翼飞行器室内导航中具有较好的应用价值。     

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.     

International HARM precision navigation upgrade - a GPS/INS missile upgrade that improves effectiveness and minimizes friendly-fire accidents

The high speed anti-radiation missile (HARM) is an air-to-surface tactical missile designed to seek and destroy enemy radar-equipped air defense systems. Unfortunately, the HARM is "no respecter of persons," and it has been known, most notably during the Gulf War, to attack "friendly" targets. The international HARM upgrade project is a tri-national missile technology project sponsored by the United States, Italian, and German governments. The HARM precision navigation upgrade (PNU) program has as its goal, the development and installation of a PNU into the HARM that will improve the weapon's effectiveness, while nearly eliminating the likelihood of fratricide. The precision navigation system consists of a modern selective availability anti-spoofing module (SAASM) based Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, and an inertial measurement unit (IMU), consisting of state-of-the-art fiber optic gyros and a modern micro-machined accelerometer triad.