Coupled GPS/MEMS IMU Attitude Determination of Small UAVs with COTS
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- This paper proposes an attitude determination system for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with a weight limit of 5 kg and a small footprint of 0.5m x 0.5 m. The system is realized by coupling single-frequency Global Positioning System (GPS) code and carrier-phase measurements with the data acquired from a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) using consumer-grade Components-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) only. The sensor fusion is accomplished using two Extended Kalman Filters (EKF) that are coupled by exchangingThis paper proposes an attitude determination system for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with a weight limit of 5 kg and a small footprint of 0.5m x 0.5 m. The system is realized by coupling single-frequency Global Positioning System (GPS) code and carrier-phase measurements with the data acquired from a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) using consumer-grade Components-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) only. The sensor fusion is accomplished using two Extended Kalman Filters (EKF) that are coupled by exchanging information about the currently estimated baseline. With a baseline of 48 cm, the static heading accuracy of the proposed system is comparable to the one of a commercial single-frequency GPS heading system with an accuracy of approximately 0.25°/m. Flight testing shows that the proposed system is able to obtain a reliable and stable GPS heading estimation without an aiding magnetometer.…
Author: | Michael Strohmeier, Sergio Montenegro |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-171179 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik / Institut für Informatik |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Electronics |
Year of Completion: | 2017 |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pagenumber: | 15 |
Source: | Electronics 2017, 6(1), 15. DOI: 10.3390/electronics6010015 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics6010015 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 005 Computerprogrammierung, Programme, Daten |
Tag: | Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS); GPS; MEMS IMU; Real-time Kinematics (RTK); UAV; attitude determination; magnetometer |
Release Date: | 2019/10/16 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |