Navegação terrestre usando unidade de medição inercial de baixo desempenho e fusão sensorial com filtro de Kalman adaptativo suavizado. / Terrestrial navigation using low-grade inertial measurement unit and sensor fusion with smoothed adaptive Kalman filter.

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

01/06/2011

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This work presents the development of the mathematical models and the algorithms of a sensor fusion system for terrestrial navigation using a low-grade inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the Extended Kalman Filter. The models were developed on the basis of the strapdown inertial navigation systems (SINS). Low-grade designates an IMU that is not able to perform girocompassing self-alignment. The impossibility of navigating relying on a low performance IMU is the motivation for investigating techniques to improve the SINS accuracy with the use of additional sensors. This thesis describes the development of a comprehensive model of a sensor fusion for the inertial navigation of a ground vehicle using a low-grade IMU, an odometer and an electronic compass. Landmarks were placed along the test trajectory in order to allow the measurement of the error of the position estimation at these points. It is presented the development of the Smoothed Adaptive Kalman Filter (SAKF), which jointly estimates the states and the errors of the estimated states of the sensor fusion system. It is presented a quantitative criteria which employs the position uncertainties estimated by SAKF in order to determine - given the available sensors, the maximum time interval that one can navigate within a desired reliability. Reduced sets of landmarks are used as fictitious sensors to test the proposed reliability criterion. Also noteworthy are the mathematical models applied to terrestrial navigation that were unified in this work. The results show that, only relying on the low performance inertial sensors, the terrestrial navigation becomes impracticable after few tens of seconds. Using the same inertial sensors, the sensor fusion produced far better results, allowing the reconstruction of trajectories with displacements of about 2.7 km (or 15 minutes) with a final error of position estimation of about 3 m.

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filmes finos inertial navigation inertial sensors kalman filters nonlinear estimation Óptica processos de microeletrônica sensor fusion

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