• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.351-358
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• 2006

The proposed inertial measurement unit (IMU) is composed of accelerometers only. It can determine a vehicle's position and attitude, which is the Gyro-free INS. The Gyro-free INS error is deeply affected by the sensor bias, scale factor and misalignment. However, these parameters can be obtained in the laboratory. After these misalignments are corrected, the Gyro-free strap-down INS could be more accurate. This paper presents a compensator design for the strap-down six-accelerometer INS to correct misalignment. A calibration experiment is taken to get the error parameters. A simulation results show that it will decrease the INS error to enhance the performance after compensation.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.440-445
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• 2013

본 논문은 쿼드로터의 최단거리 복귀 시 위치인식을 위해 확장칼만필터를(EKF) 이용한 저가형 GPS/INS 융합시스템과 셀 분할 알고리즘이 결합된 위치추정시스템을 제안한다. 연구에서는 저가형 GPS가 가지는 위치오차와 INS가 가지는 가속도 값의 계속적인 적분으로 인한 누적 오차를 줄이기 위해 확장칼만필터를 이용하여 GPS/INS 융합시스템을 구성한다. 또한 쿼드로터는 원점 복귀 명령 시 최단거리의 경로 지점에 대한 위치 경로 측정이 가능하기 때문에 위치 경로를 기준으로 셀 분할 알고리즘을 적용하여 GPS/INS 결합 데이터 중 실제 위치와 근접한 데이터를 결정함으로써 위치오차를 더욱 줄인다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 기법의 성능은 실외에서 쿼드로터 복귀 중 GPS, GPS/INS 결합, 셀 분할 알고리즘 적용 각각의 실험 결과를 비교함으로써 평가된다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.393-398
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 소형 인공위성에 탑재 가능한 GPS/INS 항법 컴퓨터의 구조를 제안한다. GPS/INS 항법 시스템을 소형 인공위성에 적용하기 위해서는 우선 우주의 방사능, 미세 중력, 진공 상태 등의 극한 환경을 고려해야 한다. 또한 소형 인공위성에서 GPS/INS 항법 시스템의 궁극적인 목표는 소형 인공위성의 편대 비행이므로 실시간 처리 능력이 필요하다. 제작된 항법 보드에는 우주환경에 대한 헤리티지가 있는 PowerPC계열의 MPC860T와 KAUSAT-2의 환경시험에서 우주환경에 대한 검증을 마친 ATmega128을 사용하였다. 항법 알고리즘은 MPC860T에 포팅된 VxWorks 환경에서 동작하도록 구현하였다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.59-70
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• 2017

Since GPS signals are vulnerable to interference and obstruction, many alternate aiding systems have been proposed to integrate with an inertial navigation system. Among these alternate systems, the vision-aided method has become more attractive due to its benefits in weight, cost and power consumption. This paper proposes a loosely-coupled vision/INS integrated navigation method which can work in GPS-denied environments. The proposed method improves the navigation accuracy by correcting INS navigation and sensor errors using position and attitude outputs of a landmark based vision navigation system. Furthermore, it has advantage to provide redundant navigation output regardless of INS output. Computer simulations and the van tests have been carried out in order to show validity of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method works well and gives reliable navigation outputs with better performance.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.131-139
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• 2013

In recent years alternative navigation system such as a DBRN (Data-Base Referenced Navigation) system using geophysical information is getting attention in the military navigation systems in advanced countries. Specifically TRN (Terrain Referenced Navigation) algorithm research is important because TRN system is a practical DBRN application in South Korea at present time. This paper presents an integrated navigation algorithm that combines a linear profile-based TRN and INS (Inertial Navigation System). We propose a correlation analysis method between TRN performance and terrain roughness index. Then we propose a conditional position update scheme that utilizes the position output of the conventional linear profile type TRN depending on the terrain roughness index. Performance of the proposed algorithm is verified through Monte Carlo computer simulations using the actual terrain database. The results show that the TRN/INS integrated algorithm, even when the initial INS error is present, overcomes the shortcomings of linear profile-based TRN and improves navigation performance.

• Korean Journal of Geomatics
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.129-140
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• 2004

This paper addresses solutions th the challenges of carrier phase integer ambiguity resolution and cycle slip detection/identification, for maintaining high accuracy of an integrated GPS/Pseudolite/INS system. Such a hybrid positioning and navigation system is an augmentation of standard GPS/INS systems in localized areas. To achieve the goal of high accuracy, the carrier phase measurements with correctly estimated integer ambiguities must be utilized to update the system integration filter's states. The contribution presents an effective approach to increase the reliability and speed of integer ambiguity resolution through using pseudolite and INS measurements, with special emphasis on reducing the ambiguity search space. In addition, an algorithm which can effectively detect and correct the cycle slips is described as well. The algorithm utilizes additional position information provided by the INS, and applies a statistical technique known as th cumulative-sun (CUSUM) test that is very sensitive to abrupt changes of mean values. Results of simulation studies and field tests indicate that the algorithms are performed pretty well, so that the accuracy and performance of the integrated system can be maintained, even if cycle slips exist in the raw GPS measurements.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.1984-1986
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• 2001

In order to provided continuous solutions, latest developing navigation systems tend to integrate GPS receiver with INS or DR. Using the GPS carrier-phase measurements, an attitude GPS receiver with three antennas obtain the 3-dimensional attitude such as roll, pitch, and heading as well as position and velocity. With these angle measurements, in the attitude GPS/INS integrated system, attitude or gyro errors can be directly compensated. In this paper, we develop an integrated navigation system that combines attitude GPS receiver with INS. The performance of real-time integrated navigation system is determined by not only the implements of integration filter but also the synchronization of measurements. To meet these real-time requirements, the navigation software is implemented in multi-tasking structure in this paper. We also employ time-synchronization technique in the multi-sensor fusion. Experimental results show that the performance of the attitude GPS/INS integrated system is consistent even when cycle-slip occurs in carrier-phase measurements.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.220-227
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• 2018

INS/GNSS 결합시스템을 구성하기 위해서 일반적으로 널리 사용되는 방법이 칼만필터를 이용한 통합항법 시스템을 구성하는 것이다. 하지만, 궤적에 따라 칼만필터의 상태변수들 중에서 가관측하지 않은 상태변수가 발생할 수도 있으며, 이 경우 해당 상태 변수들은 오차가 추정되지 않는다. 이런 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 일반적으로 통합항법 시스템을 구성한 이후에 가관측성 분석을 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 피치각 변화가 큰 궤적으로 움직이는 항체의 INS/GNSS 통합항법 시스템을 설계하기 위해서 24차의 위치 정합 칼만필터를 정의하였다. 설계에 적용된 오차 상태 변수들의 적절성을 검증하기 위해서 가관측성 분석을 수행하였다. 궤적을 5개의 segment로 구분하고 각 구간에서는 PWCS로 가정하여 가관측성을 해석적으로 분석했으며, 그 결과를 시뮬레이션을 통해서 검증하였다. 가관측성 해석 결과 및 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해서 칼만필터의 오차 상태 변수가 가관측하도록 잘 설계되었음을 확인 하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.197-206
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• 2019

Safe aircraft requires highly reliable navigation information. The traditionally used inertial navigation system (INS) often displays faulty location information due to its innate errors. To overcome this, the INS/GNSS or INS/TRN integrated navigation can be used. However, GNSS is vulnerable to jamming and spoofing, while TRN can be degraded in the flat and repetitive terrains. In this paper, to improve the performance and ensure the high reliability of the navigation system, the INS/GNSS/TRN integrated navigation based on federated filter is designed. Master filter of the integrated navigation uses the estimates and covariances of two local filters - INS/GNSS and INS/TRN integrated filters. The local filters are designed with the EKF that is feedforward type and composed of the 17st state variables. And the INS/GNSS integrated navigation includes the barometer error compensation method. Finally, the proposed INS/GNSS/TRN integrated navigation is verified by vehicle and captive flight tests.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.944-952
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• 2001

Inertial navigation system(INS) errors increase with time due to inertial sensor errors, and therefore it is desired to combine INS with external aids such as GPS. However GPS informations have a randomly abrupt jump due to a sudden corruption of the received satellite signals and environment, and moreover GPS can\`t provide navigation solutions. In this paper, smoothing and prediction schemes are proposed for GPS`s jump or unavailable GPS. The smoothing algorithm which is designed as a scalar adaptive filter, smooths abrupt jump. The prediction algorithm which is proved by Schuler error model of INS, estimates INS error in appropriate time. The outputs of proposed algorithm apply stable measurements to GPS aided INS Kalman filter. Simulations show that the proposed algorithm can effectively remove measurement jump and predict INS error.