scholarly journals Features of Invariant Extended Kalman Filter Applied to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Navigation

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nak Ko ◽  
Wonkeun Youn ◽  
In Choi ◽  
Gyeongsub Song ◽  
Tae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Extended Kalman Filter ◽  
Angular Rate ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
State Variables ◽  
Internal Parameters ◽  
New Variant ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
And Performance

This research used an invariant extended Kalman filter (IEKF) for the navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and compared the properties and performance of this IEKF with those of an open-source navigation method based on an extended Kalman filter (EKF). The IEKF is a fairly new variant of the EKF, and its properties have been verified theoretically and through simulations and experiments. This study investigated its performance using a practical implementation and examined its distinctive features compared to the previous EKF-based approach. The test used two different types of UAVs: rotary wing and fixed wing. The method uses sensor measurements of the location and velocity from a GPS receiver; the acceleration, angular rate, and magnetic field from a microelectromechanical system-attitude heading reference system (MEMS-AHRS); and the altitude from a barometric sensor. Through flight tests, the estimated state variables and internal parameters such as the Kalman gain, state error covariance, and measurement innovation for the IEKF method and EKF-based method were compared. The estimated states and internal parameters showed that the IEKF method was more stable and convergent than the EKF-based method, although the estimated locations, velocities, and altitudes of the two methods were comparable.

scholarly journals Ultra-wideband based cooperative relative localization algorithm and experiments for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles in GPS denied environments

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kexin Guo ◽  
Zhirong Qiu ◽  
Wei Meng ◽  
Lihua Xie ◽  
Rodney Teo
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Extended Kalman Filter ◽  
Ultra Wideband ◽  
Cooperative Localization ◽  
Relative Localization ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Displacement Measurements

This article puts forward an indirect cooperative relative localization method to estimate the position of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relative to their neighbors based solely on distance and self-displacement measurements in GPS denied environments. Our method consists of two stages. Initially, assuming no knowledge about its own and neighbors’ states and limited by the environment or task constraints, each unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) solves an active 2D relative localization problem to obtain an estimate of its initial position relative to a static hovering quadcopter (a.k.a. beacon), which is subsequently refined by the extended Kalman filter to account for the noise in distance and displacement measurements. Starting with the refined initial relative localization guess, the second stage generalizes the extended Kalman filter strategy to the case where all unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) move simultaneously. In this stage, each unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) carries out cooperative localization through the inter-unmanned aerial vehicle distance given by ultra-wideband and exchanging the self-displacements of neighboring unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Extensive simulations and flight experiments are presented to corroborate the effectiveness of our proposed relative localization initialization strategy and algorithm.

Unmanned aerial vehicle for transmission line inspection using an extended Kalman filter with colored electromagnetic interference

2020 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 322-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathaus Ferreira da Silva ◽  
Leonardo M. Honório ◽  
Andre Luis M. Marcato ◽  
Vinicius F. Vidal ◽  
Murillo F. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Transmission Line ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Extended Kalman Filter ◽  
Electromagnetic Interference ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

scholarly journals EKF-Based Parameter Identification of Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aerial VehiclesModels

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (19) ◽  
pp. 4174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Munguía ◽  
Sarquis Urzua ◽  
Antoni Grau
Keyword(s):  
Kalman Filter ◽  
Extended Kalman Filter ◽  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
State Variables ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Estimation Process ◽  
Observability Analysis ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

This work presents a method for estimating the model parameters of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles by means of an extended Kalman filter. Different from test-bed based identification methods, the proposed approach estimates all the model parameters of a multi-rotor aerial vehicle, using a single online estimation process that integrates measurements that can be obtained directly from onboard sensors commonly available in this kind of UAV. In order to develop the proposed method, the observability property of the system is investigated by means of a nonlinear observability analysis. First, the dynamic models of three classes of multi-rotor aerial vehicles are presented. Then, in order to carry out the observability analysis, the state vector is augmented by considering the parameters to be identified as state variables with zero dynamics. From the analysis, the sets of measurements from which the model parameters can be estimated are derived. Furthermore, the necessary conditions that must be satisfied in order to obtain the observability results are given. An extensive set of computer simulations is carried out in order to validate the proposed method. According to the simulation results, it is feasible to estimate all the model parameters of a multi-rotor aerial vehicle in a single estimation process by means of an extended Kalman filter that is updated with measurements obtained directly from the onboard sensors. Furthermore, in order to better validate the proposed method, the model parameters of a custom-built quadrotor were estimated from actual flight log data. The experimental results show that the proposed method is suitable to be practically applied.

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