On methods for in-flight alignment of inertial navigation systems

Detalhes bibliográficos
Ano de defesa: 2019
Autor(a) principal: Rian Koja
Orientador(a): Waldemar de Castro Leite Filho
Banca de defesa: Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas, Jacques Waldmann
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: eng
Instituição de defesa: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação do INPE em Mecânica Espacial e Controle
Departamento: Não Informado pela instituição
País: BR
Link de acesso: http://urlib.net/sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21c/2019/02.06.02.41
Resumo: This work reviews and adapts the framework for in-flight attitude initialization of an Inertial Navigation System with Position-Velocity Integration formulas (PIF and VIF), which are based on measurements from a GPS receiver and inertial sensors. It is shown that some shortcomings of such methods are more critical for a simplified comparison algorithm (TRIAD), which in turn helps to create a derived method (FIL), based on some logical conditions checks which allow precluding large alignment errors. The algorithms are then analyzed by developing an original on-line error estimation method, based on an estimation of the covariance of the involved vectors yielding a direction error for the vectors, which allows a decision criterion for online convergence declaration employed for two additional methods (OPT and OPTc). Results are validated with simulated data and Monte-Carlo tests are employed to assess the performance and validate some assumptions associated with those methods.