• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.245-250
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• 2019

관성항법장치는 시간 경과에 따라 관성센서 및 초기정렬 오차로 인해 항법 오차가 발생한다. 이를 보상하기 위한 방법으로 위성항법시스템 및 속도계 등을 이용하여 보정항법을 수행한다. 수중 환경에서는 GNSS 신호가 통하지 않기 때문에, 수중운동체에 탑재한 관성항법장치는 주로 속도계 보조센서를 이용하여 보정항법을 수행한다. 속도계 보조센서는 DVL, EM-Log, RPM이 있으며, 시스템 환경에 따라서 센서 종류가 적용된다. 본 논문은 고속 및 심해 환경에서 운용되는 관성항법장치의 RPM 속도보정항법을 설계하였다. 또한 직진 방향의 성분을 갖는 RPM 속도계의 한계를 보완하며, 해조류 속도 오차를 보상하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 몬테카를로 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 성능을 입증하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.345-354
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• 2019

The 3D position of pedestrians is a physical quantity used in various fields, such as automotive navigation and augmented reality. An inertial navigation system (INS) based pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR), hereafter INS-PDR, estimates the relative position of pedestrians using an inertial measurement unit (IMU). Since an INS-PDR integrates the accelerometer signal twice, cumulative errors occur and cause a rapid increase in drifts. Various correction methods have been proposed to reduce drifts. For example, one of the most commonly applied correction method is the zero velocity update (ZUPT). This study investigated the characteristics of the existing INS-PDR methods based on shoe-mounted IMU and compared the estimation performances under various conditions. Four methods were chosen: (i) altitude correction (AC); (ii) step length correction (SLC); (iii) advanced heuristic drift elimination (AHDE); and (iv) magnetometer-based heading correction (MHC). Experimental results reveal that each of the correction methods shows condition-sensitive performance, that is, each method performs better under the test conditions for which the method was developed than it does under other conditions. Nevertheless, AC and AHDE performed better than the SLC and MHC overall. The AC and AHDE methods were complementary to each other, and a combination of the two methods yields better estimation performance.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.16-23
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• 2020

This paper describes an alignment algorithm that estimates the initial heading angle of AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) for starting navigation in a sea area. In the basic dead reckoning system, the initial orientation of the vehicle is very important. In particular, the initial heading value is an essential factor in determining the performance of the entire navigation system. However, the heading angle of AUVs cannot be measured accurately because the DCS (Digital Compass) corrupted by surrounding magnetic field in pointing true north direction of the absolute global coordinate system (not the same to magnetic north direction). Therefore, we constructed an experimental constraint and designed an algorithm based on extended Kalman filter using only inertial navigation sensors and a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver basically. The value of sensor covariance was selected by comparing the navigation results with the reference data. The proposed filter estimates the initial heading angle of AUVs for navigation in a sea area and reflects sampling characteristics of each sensor. Finally, we verify the performance of the filter through experiments.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2020

In this paper, a new model-based Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) method for an agile supersonic flight vehicle is presented. A nonlinear model, controlled by a classical closed loop controller and proportional navigation guidance in interception scenario, describes the behavior of the vehicle. The proposed FDD method employs the Inertial Navigation System (INS) data and nonlinear dynamic model of the vehicle to inform fins damage to the controller before leading to an undesired performance or mission failure. Broken, burnt, unactuated or not opened control surfaces cause a drastic change in aerodynamic coefficients and consequently in the dynamic model. Therefore, in addition to the changes in the control forces and moments, system dynamics will change too, leading to the failure detection process being encountered with difficulty. To this purpose, an equivalent aerodynamic model is proposed to express the dynamics of the vehicle, and the health of each fin is monitored by the value of a parameter which is estimated using an adaptive robust filter. The proposed method detects and isolates fins damages in a few seconds with good accuracy.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.468-473
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• 2014

This paper describes the in-flight alignment of SDINS (Strapdown Inertial Navigation Systems) using an EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) and a UKF (Unscented Kalam Filter), which allow large initial attitude error uncertainty. Regardless of the inertial sensors, there are nonlinear error dynamics of SDINS in cases of large initial attitude errors. A UKF that is one of the nonlinear filtering approaches for IFA (In-Flight Alignment) are used to estimate the attitude errors. Even though the EKF linearized model makes velocity errors when predicting incorrectly in case of large attitude errors, a UKF can represent correctly the velocity errors variations of attitude errors with nonlinear attitude error components. Simulation results and analyses show that a UKF works well to handle large initial attitude errors of SDINS and the alignment error attitude estimation performance are quite improved.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.157-177
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• 2017

This research is based on the concept of safety airbag to design a self-rescue system for the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) using micro inertial sensing module. To reduce the possibility of losing the underwater vehicle and the difficulty of searching and rescuing, when the AUV self-rescue system (ASRS) detects that the AUV is crashing or encountering a serious collision, it can pump carbon dioxide into the airbag immediately to make the vehicle surface. ASRS consists of 10-DOF sensing module, sensing attitude algorithm and air-pumping mechanism. The attitude sensing modules are a nine-axis micro-inertial sensor and a barometer. The sensing attitude algorithm is designed to estimate failure attitude of AUV properly using sensor calibration and extended Kalman filter (SCEKF), feature extraction and backpropagation network (BPN) classify. SCEKF is proposed to be used subsequently to calibrate and fuse the data from the micro-inertial sensors. Feature extraction and BPN training algorithms for classification are used to determine the activity malfunction of AUV. When the accident of AUV occurred, the ASRS will immediately be initiated; the airbag is soon filled, and the AUV will surface due to the buoyancy. In the future, ASRS will be developed successfully to solve the problems such as the high losing rate and the high difficulty of the rescuing mission of AUV.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.565-573
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• 2017

This paper presents a multistage in-flight alignment (MIFA) method for a strapdown inertial navigation system (SDINS) suitable for moving vehicles with no initial attitude references. A SDINS mounted on a moving vehicle frequently loses attitude information for many reasons, and it makes solving navigation equations impossible because the true motion is coupled with an undefined vehicle attitude. To determine the attitude in such a situation, MIFA consists of three stages: a coarse horizontal attitude, coarse heading, and fine attitude with adaptive Kalman navigation filter (AKNF) in order. In the coarse horizontal alignment, the pitch and roll are coarsely estimated from the second order damping loop with an input of acceleration differences between the SDINS and GPS. To enhance estimation accuracy, the acceleration is smoothed by a scalar filter to reflect the true dynamics of a vehicle, and the effects of the scalar filter gains are analyzed. Then the coarse heading is determined from the GPS tracking angle and yaw increment of the SDINS. The attitude from these two stages is fed back to the initial values of the AKNF. To reduce the estimated bias errors of inertial sensors, special emphasis is given to the timing synchronization effects for the measurement of AKNF. With various real flight tests using an UH60 helicopter, it is proved that MIFA provides a dramatic position error improvement compared to the conventional gyro compass alignment.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.189-196
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose techniques to correct the altitude error and heading error of 3D Pedestrian Inertial Navigation (PIN). When a PIN is used to estimate the location of a pedestrian only with an Inetrial Measurement Unit (IMU) without infrastructure, there is a problem in that the location error gradually increases due to the limitation of the observability of the filter. To solve this problem without additional sensors, we propose two techniques in this paper. First, stair walking is recognized in consideration of the altitude difference that may occur during one step. If it is recognized as stair walking, only Zero-velocity UPdaTe (ZUPT) is performed, and if it is recognized as level walking, ZUPT + Altitude Damping (AD) is performed together to correct the altitude error. Second, the straight-line movement direction is calculated through the difference of the estimated position, and the heading error is corrected by matching this information with the link information of the digital map. By applying these techniques, it is verified through real tests that accurate three-dimensional location information of pedestrians can be estimated without infrastructure.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.37-42
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• 2013

In this paper, a localization algorithm and an autonomous controller for PETASUS system II which is an underwater vehicle-manipulator system, are proposed. To estimate its position and to identify manipulation targets in a structured environment, a multi-rate extended Kalman filter is developed, where map information and data from inertial sensors, sonar sensors, and vision sensors are used. In addition, a three layered control structure is proposed as a controller for autonomy. By this controller, PETASUS system II is able to generate waypoints and make decisions on its own behaviors. Experiment results are provided for verifying proposed algorithms.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.518-524
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• 2011

본 논문은 퍼지 추론 시스템(FIS: fuzzy inference system)을 이용하여 자이로스코프를 사용하지 않는 관성 항법 장치(GFINS: gyroscope free inertial navigation system)의 가속도계 데이터를 보정하는 방법에 관한 연구이다. 일반적인 관성항법 장치(INS: inertial navigation system)는 주로 가속도계와 같은 병진운동을 감지하는 관성 센서와 자이로스코프와 같은 회전 운동을 감지하는 관성 센서를 이용하여 위치와 yaw각을 측정하는 장치이다. 하지만 INS는 자이로스코프를 사용하기 때문에 소형화 및 저전력 설계가 어렵다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 자이로스코프를 사용하지 않는 GFINS에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. GFINS에 사용되는 가속도계는 적분과 외란에 의한 오차가 시간이 지남에 따라 누적되는 문제가 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 가속도계의 누적 오차 문제를 해결하기 위해, 레이저 내비게이션과 가속도계의 선속도 비율과 엔코더와 가속도계의 선속도 비율을 통해 GFINS의 데이터를 보정하는 FIS를 제안한다. 제안된 Fuzzy-GFINS를 평가하기 위해, 직접 제작한 메카넘 휠 AGV(autonomous ground vehicle)에 제안된 GFINS를 적용하였다. 실험 결과, 제안된 방법이 GFINS의 출력 데이터를 효과적으로 보정하는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.