CNS+GNSS+INS船载高精度实时定位定姿算法改进研究

天文导航（CNS）、卫星导航（GNSS）和惯性导航（INS）3种系统组合可提供高精度的定位定姿结果。实际工程中因INS长时间误差累积，以及系统硬件传输存在不可忽略的时间延迟，导致INS提供给CNS的预报粗姿态误差较大，恶劣海况下难以保障快速搜星，造成天文导航可靠性下降、姿态测量精度较低的问题。为此，本文提出了一种CNS+GNSS+INS高精度信息融合实时定位定姿框架，引入了等角速度外推措施，有效地解决了惯导信息延迟问题。通过高精度转台模拟恶劣海况下载体大角速度摇摆，验证了本文提出的改进算法的有效性。试验结果表明，该算法架构简单，性能可靠，显著提高了恶劣环境下星敏感器的快速、准确搜星能力，保障了三组合姿态测量的精度和可用性。     

视觉辅助下的室内惯导位姿修正

惯性导航系统可以短期内提供连续的高精度信息，但是误差会随时间增大，不能长期独立工作。而在大型仓库、地下停车场等室内卫星信号薄弱的场景中，传统的惯导+卫星组合方法也不再适用。针对该问题，本文提出了一种视觉与惯导组合定位的方法。本文研究的惯导+视觉组合的定位方法中，采用基于合作目标的单目视觉定位方法对惯导误差进行修正。对于惯导误差的修正方法，本文利用视觉定位的位姿信息建立量测方程，进行卡尔曼滤波，并选取合适的试验设备，通过实际试验对比验证了该算法对惯导系统误差的修正具有良好的效果。     

附加约束条件对GNSS/INS组合导航结果的影响分析

针对车载全球导航卫星系统/惯性导航系统（global navigation satellite system/inertial navigation system,GNSS/INS）组合导航中卫星信号中断,惯性导航系统单独导航误差积累较大的问题,提出了附加载体运动条件约束的卡尔曼（Kalman）滤波解算方法。通过利用载体固有的运动约束,包括近似高程约束、近似速度约束和近似姿态约束,减少载体自由度和模型参数;通过引入新的观测类型,增加观测冗余,可以加强Kalman滤波解,提高在GNSS信号中断时组合导航系统的定位精度,实现无缝导航。     

Modeling and verifying the impact of time delay on INS-aided GNSS PLLs

The timing error between global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and inertial navigation system (INS) processes limits the integration performance in GNSS/INS integrated systems. In a deeply coupled system, this timing error affects not only the integrated navigation solution, but also the GNSS signal tracking. We propose a time-domain model of INS-aided second-order phase-locked loops (PLLs) in consideration of the INS aiding delay, and analyze the effect of INS aiding delay on the tracking errors in details. In addition, an integrated hardware deeply coupled system platform was developed to verify the impact of time delay on INS-aided PLLs. Simulation and field vehicles testing results demonstrate that the tracking error of the INS-aided PLL caused by aiding delay increases with the lengthening of the delay time, the compression of the bandwidth, and the increase in the acceleration. Testing results verify the proposed model.     

A combined algorithm of improving INS error modeling and sensor measurements for accurate INS/GPS navigation

Although the integrated system of a differential global positioning system (DGPS) and an inertial navigation system (INS) had been widely used in many geodetic navigation applications, it has sometimes a major limitation. This limitation is associated with the frequent occurrence of DGPS outages caused by GPS signal blockages in certain situations (urban areas, high trees, tunnels, etc.). In the standard mechanization of INS/DGPS navigation, the DGPS is used for positioning while the INS is used for attitude determination. In case of GPS signal blockages, positioning is provided using the INS instead of the GPS until satellite signals are obtained again with sufficient accuracy. Since the INS has a very short-time accuracy, the accuracy of the provided INS navigation parameters during these periods decreases with time. However, the obtained accuracy in these cases is totally dependent on the INS error model and on the quality of the INS sensor data. Therefore, enhanced navigation parameters could be obtained during DGPS outages if better inertial error models are implemented and better quality inertial measurements are used. In this paper, it will be shown that better INS error models are obtained using autoregressive processes for modeling inertial sensor errors instead of Gauss–Markov processes that are implemented in most of the current inertial systems and, on the other hand, that the quality of inertial data is improved using wavelet multi-resolution techniques. The above two methods are discussed and then a combined algorithm of both techniques is applied. The performance of each method as well as of the combined algorithm is analyzed using land-vehicle INS/DGPS data with induced DGPS outage periods. In addition to the considerable navigation accuracy improvement obtained from each single method, the results showed that the combined algorithm is better than both methods by more than 30%.     

Improved decentralized multi-sensor navigation system for airborne applications

The integration of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) technologies is a very useful navigation option for high-accuracy positioning in many applications. However, its performance is still limited by GNSS satellite availability and satellite geometry. To address such limitations, a non-GNSS-based positioning technology known as “Locata” is used to augment a standard GNSS/INS system. The conventional methods for multi-sensor integration can be classified as being either in the form of centralized Kalman filtering (CKF), or decentralized Kalman filtering. However, these two filtering architectures are not always ideal for real-world applications. To satisfy both accuracy and reliability requirements, these three integration algorithms—CKF, federated Kalman filtering (FKF) and an improved decentralized filtering, known as global optimal filtering (GOF)—are investigated. In principle, the GOF is derived from more information resources than the CKF and FKF algorithms. These three algorithms are implemented in a GPS/Locata/INS integrated navigation system and evaluated using data obtained from a flight test. The experimental results show that the position, velocity and attitude solution derived from the GOF-based system indicate improvements of 30, 18.4 and 20.8% over the CKF- and FKF-based systems, respectively.     

车载三天线GNSS的直接法定姿及精度评估

针对移动测量系统对载体姿态的需求,对车载三天线全球卫星导航系统（global navigation satellite system,GNSS）的直接法定姿进行了研究。分析了定姿的原理,给出了姿态解算公式,并提出一种简便的方法确定航向角的象限,解决了航向角的多值性问题。为了评估该方法的精度,利用车载的三天线GNSS进行了动态实验,采集了动态观测数据,利用直接法对观测数据进行了姿态解算,并用同车搭载的一套高精度惯性导航系统（inertial navigation system,INS）给出的姿态参考值对三天线GNSS定姿的精度和可靠性进行了评估。结果表明,三天线GNSS直接法定姿精度高、可靠性好,并具有计算简便,可避免奇异性问题等优点。     

A wavelet-extreme learning machine for low-cost INS/GPS navigation system in high-speed applications

The combined navigation system consisting of both global positioning system (GPS) and inertial navigation system (INS) results in reliable, accurate, and continuous navigation capability when compared to either a GPS or an INS stand-alone system. To improve the overall performance of low-cost micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based INS/GPS by considering a high level of stochastic noise on low-cost MEMS-based inertial sensors, a highly complex problems with noisy real data, a high-speed vehicle, and GPS signal outage during our experiments, we suggest two approaches at different steps: (1) improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the inertial sensor measurements and attenuating high-frequency noise using the discrete wavelet transform technique before data fusion while preserving important information like the vehicle motion information and (2) enhancing the positioning accuracy and speed by an extreme learning machine (ELM) which has the characteristics of quick learning speed and impressive generalization performance. We present a single-hidden layer feedforward neural network which is employed to optimize the estimation accuracy and speed by minimizing the error, especially in the high-speed vehicle and real-time implementation applications. To validate the performance of our proposed method, the results are compared with an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and an extended Kalman filter (EKF) method. The achieved accuracies are discussed. The results suggest a promising and superior prospect for ELM in the field of positioning for low-cost MEMS-based inertial sensors in the absence of GPS signal, as it outperforms ANFIS and EKF by approximately 50 and 70%, respectively.     

BDS RTK／MEMS-INS组合数学模型研究与性能分析

卫星导航系统和惯性导航系统（INS）具有极强的互补性,两者组合能有效提高导航定位结果的可用性、连续性和可靠性. 随着北斗卫星导航系统（BDS）的快速发展和低成本惯导元件（IMU）性能的不断提高,进行基于BDS和低成本IMU的组合导航系统相关理论和技术研究具有很强的研究意义和实用价值. 本文首先对BDS RTK／M-EMS INS组合理论模型进行推导,并利用实测车载数据对组合系统的性能进行分析. 实验结果表明,在BDS中引入低成本IMU,可以在不损失定位精度的同时有效改善测速精度. 组合后在车载动态中定位精度影响为mm级,而速度误差改善在北、东、地方向达到了75.8％、79.5％、66.7％. 此外,在BDS+INS紧组合中使用双频数据可以改善测速定姿精度,速度误差改善为18.2％、33.3％、33.3％,姿态误差改善为41.1％、26.7％、59.0％.      

INS辅助的实时动态GNSS单频周跳探测

采用全球卫星导航系统（Global Navigation Satellite System，GNSS）模糊度固定解可提高GNSS/惯性导航系统（inertial navigation system，INS）组合导航定位精度，而在复杂环境下，单频GNSS难以实现完善的实时动态周跳探测，影响GNSS模糊度保持。研究了星间单差与站星双差的INS辅助GNSS单频周跳探测检验量，重点分析检验量的误差特性。分析得出检验量误差主要与INS增量误差有关，受接收机至待检星与参考星之间星地矢量夹角的影响。提出了选取两颗参考星并优选探测检验量的方法，降低方位角因素的影响，提高周跳探测性能。周跳探测的阈值在滑动窗口内估计，对INS误差被GNSS误差淹没的部分进行抑制，充分反映INS误差影响，阈值估计具有较强的自适应性。     

An enhanced MEMS-INS/GNSS integrated system with fault detection and exclusion capability for land vehicle navigation in urban areas

We describe an enhanced quality control algorithm for the MEMS-INS/GNSS integrated navigation system. It aims to maintain the system’s reliability and availability during global navigation satellite system (GNSS) partial and complete data loss and disturbance, and hence to improve the system’s performance in urban environments with signal obstructions, tunnels, bridges, and signal reflections. To reduce the inertial navigation system (INS) error during GNSS outages, the stochastic model of the integration Kalman filter (KF) is informed by Allan variance analysis and the application of a non-holonomic constraint. A KF with a fault detection and exclusion capability is applied in the loosely and tightly coupled integration modes to reduce the adverse influence of abnormal GNSS data. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed navigation system, road tests have been conducted in an urban area and the system’s reliability and integrity is discussed. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of different algorithms for reducing the growth of INS error.     

Enhanced MEMS-IMU/odometer/GPS integration using mixture particle filter

Dead reckoning techniques such as inertial navigation and odometry are integrated with GPS to avoid interruption of navigation solutions due to lack of visible satellites. A common method to achieve a low-cost navigation solution for land vehicles is to use a MEMS-based inertial measurement unit (IMU) for integration with GPS. This integration is traditionally accomplished by means of a Kalman filter (KF). Due to the significant inherent errors of MEMS inertial sensors and their time-varying changes, which are difficult to model, severe position error growth happens during GPS outages. The positional accuracy provided by the KF is limited by its linearized models. A Particle filter (PF), being a nonlinear technique, can accommodate for arbitrary inertial sensor characteristics and motion dynamics. An enhanced version of the PF, called Mixture PF, is employed in this paper. It samples from both the prior importance density and the observation likelihood, leading to an improved performance. Furthermore, in order to enhance the performance of MEMS-based IMU/GPS integration during GPS outages, the use of pitch and roll calculated from the longitudinal and transversal accelerometers together with the odometer data as a measurement update is proposed in this paper. These updates aid the IMU and limit the positional error growth caused by two horizontal gyroscopes, which are a major source of error during GPS outages. The performance of the proposed method is examined on road trajectories, and results are compared to the three different KF-based solutions. The proposed Mixture PF with velocity, pitch, and roll updates outperformed all the other solutions and exhibited an average improvement of approximately 64% over KF with the same updates, about 85% over KF with velocity updates only, and around 95% over KF without any updates during GPS outages.     

INS/GNSS/ODO嵌入式系统的容错技术研究

车载低成本嵌入式组合导航系统的可靠性容易受到多种传感器故障和环境的影响,基于全球卫星导航系统(GNSS)状态的惯性导航系统(INS)/GNSS/里程计(ODO)抗差组合导航算法,提出了一种两级故障检测处理方法.其中,第一级检测使用了基于解析冗余的残差卡方检验法,第二级检测使用了改进的双状态传播卡方检验算法.利用自主研制...     

陆地导航中GNSS/陀螺仪组合实时测姿方法

在陆地导航系统中使用GNSS/INS组合导航会增加系统成本,多天线GNSS测姿精度受基线长度影响,且存在的模糊度固定问题。本文提出仅利用一个陀螺仪和单天线GNSS组合来进行实时测姿。先由单天线GNSS计算姿态角3参数,航向角为陆地导航的关键参数,为此将陀螺信息与GNSS导出的航向角进行融合。分析了单天线测姿在载体静止或低速运动时精度很差的原因,提出了在组合滤波中进行解决的方案。推导了GNSS和陀螺信息融合的滤波模型,将陀螺仪信息作为状态模型的控制输入,以GNSS航向为滤波观测值。实验结果表明,GNSS/陀螺仪组合计算的航向角精度和可靠性相对GNSS测姿结果均有很大提升。     

抗差估计在RTK／INS紧组合中的应用研究

针对动态环境下GNSS／INS导航定位结果常受粗差影响的问题,提出了一种基于抗差卡尔曼滤波的GPS／BDS双系统RTK／INS紧组合导航定位算法,根据方差膨胀模型,建立抗差卡尔曼算法,得到GNSS／INS紧组合抗差解,并通过两个不同区域的实测车载实验进行了算法验证. 实验结果表明:本方法相较于传统方法，在N、E、D三个方向的导航精度分别提高1.4～4.6 cm,0.7～9 cm,1.5～2 cm,模糊度固定成功率提高10.3％～25.6％,导航精度及可靠性得到显著提高,对动态环境下车载或自动驾驶等应用具有一定的理论参考和实用价值.      

GNSS/INS紧组合导航系统自主完好性监测分析

可靠性和对故障的可区分性是评价系统完好性的两个重要因素。本文将多GNSS系统与不同精度的INS系统进行组合,由此分析不同因素对组合系统内部的可靠性和故障探测与隔离能力的影响。仿真结果表明,集成多GNSS系统可以改善卫星星座的几何分布结构,从而提高系统的内部可靠性和对故障的区分能力;当GNSS系统与INS系统相结合时,也能大幅度提高系统的可靠性和区分性;相较于低精度的INS系统,采用高精度的INS系统能够进一步的提高系统的可靠性,并增强对故障的区分能力。     

GPS/INS navigation precision and its effect on airborne radio occultation retrieval accuracy

An airborne radio occultation (RO) system has been developed to retrieve atmospheric profiles of refractivity, moisture, and temperature. The long-term objective of such a system is deployment on commercial aircraft to increase the quantity of moisture observations in flight corridors in order to improve weather forecast accuracy. However, there are several factors important to operational feasibility that have an impact on the accuracy of the airborne RO results. We investigate the effects of different types of navigation system noise on the precision of the retrieved atmospheric profiles using recordings from the GNSS Instrument System for Multistatic and Occultation Sensing (GISMOS) test flights, which used an Applanix POS/AV 510 Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS). The data were processed using a carrier phase differential GPS technique, and then the GPS position and inertial measurement unit data were combined in a loosely coupled integrated inertial navigation solution. This study quantifies the velocity precision as a function of distance from GPS reference network sites, the velocity precision with or without an inertial measurement unit, the impact of the quality of the inertial measurement unit, and the compromise in precision resulting from the use of real-time autonomous GPS positioning. We find that using reference stations with baseline lengths of up to 760?km from the survey area has a negligible impact on the retrieved refractivity precision. We also find that only a small bias (less than 0.5% in refractivity) results from the use of an autonomous GPS solution rather than a post-processed differential solution when used in an integrated GPS/INS system. This greatly expands the potential range of an operational airborne radio occultation system, particularly over the oceans, where observations are sparse.     

改进的GNSS/SINS组合导航系统自适应滤波算法

GNSS/SINS(global navigation satellite system/strapdown inertial navigation system)组合导航系统已得到广泛的应用与研究,当处于复杂环境时,GNSS输出容易出现误差均方差突变、误差均方差缓变、硬故障和软故障4种现象,进而影响组合导航系统滤波精度及载体的导航安全。为了解决上述问题,提出了一种改进的GNSS/SINS组合导航系统自适应滤波算法。首先,利用滤波过程中的观测异常检验统计量与滤波器门限值构建观测因子,然后,将变分贝叶斯原理与抗野值滤波方法结合,设计了改进的组合导航系统自适应滤波算法。仿真实验表明,相较于传统算法,当GNSS输出误差均方差发生变化时,所提算法可将位置精度及速度精度提高11.8%及13.7%;在GNSS输出发生硬故障时,所提算法可将位置精度及速度精度提高70.8%及69.6%。实验结果表明,所提算法具有较强的自适应性,可提升复杂环境下组合导航系统的精度和连续可用性。     

GNSS/INS组合导航系统定位精度分析

GNSS/INS组合导航系统近年来得到了快速发展,应用领域越来越广泛。组合导航的定位精度是一个重要的研究方向,本文将应用于航空遥感领域的高精度GNSS/INS组合导航系统放置在地面平台上,采集试验数据,通过与NRTK定位结果比较,对组合导航系统定位精度进行分析,得出GNSS/INS组合导航系统的定位精度可达到厘米级的试验结论。     

GNSS+INS组合定位在矿山无人驾驶卡车的应用

面向矿山无人驾驶卡车场景,针对GNSS定位不连续且容易被干扰、INS存在累计误差的缺点,本文提出了一种基于GNSS+INS组合的导航算法,该算法融合了两种算法的优点,提高了定位的精度和可靠性。分别将RTK算法和组合导航算法结果与开源软件RTKLIB和NovAtel板载输出结果对比。试验结果表明,本文算法在精度上与NovAtel板载输出结果基本持平,明显优于RTKLIB软件。本文算法平面和高程误差均值及STD均优于5 cm,姿态误差均值和STD优于1°,可以满足矿用无人驾驶卡车的定位精度需求。