Optical Flow Sensor/INS/Magnetometer Integrated Navigation System for MAV in GPS-Denied Environment

The drift of inertial navigation system (INS) will lead to large navigation error when a low-cost INS is used in microaerial vehicles (MAV). To overcome the above problem, an INS/optical flow/magnetometer integrated navigation scheme is proposed for GPS-denied environment in this paper. The scheme,...

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Main Authors: Chong Shen, Zesen Bai, Huiliang Cao, Ke Xu, Chenguang Wang, Huaiyu Zhang, Ding Wang, Jun Tang, Jun Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Sensors
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6105803
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Summary:The drift of inertial navigation system (INS) will lead to large navigation error when a low-cost INS is used in microaerial vehicles (MAV). To overcome the above problem, an INS/optical flow/magnetometer integrated navigation scheme is proposed for GPS-denied environment in this paper. The scheme, which is based on extended Kalman filter, combines INS and optical flow information to estimate the velocity and position of MAV. The gyro, accelerator, and magnetometer information are fused together to estimate the MAV attitude when the MAV is at static state or uniformly moving state; and the gyro only is used to estimate the MAV attitude when the MAV is accelerating or decelerating. The MAV flight data is used to verify the proposed integrated navigation scheme, and the verification results show that the proposed scheme can effectively reduce the errors of navigation parameters and improve navigation precision.
ISSN:1687-725X
1687-7268