Continuous and highly accurate navigation of long-endurance flight vehicles continues to be a substantial challenge in Global Navigation Satellite Systems(GNSS)-denied environments.Though the integrated navigation bas...Continuous and highly accurate navigation of long-endurance flight vehicles continues to be a substantial challenge in Global Navigation Satellite Systems(GNSS)-denied environments.Though the integrated navigation based on multiple sensors is used to improve the navigation performance,the existing methods are prone to model mismatch and error accumulation under heterogeneous conditions of sensors.In this paper,a Tightly-coupled Interactive Multi-Model Factor Graph Optimization(TIMMFGO) navigation method is proposed to solve the problem.The developed integrated navigation framework consists of Inertial Navigation Systems(INS),Celestial Navigation Systems(CNS),Radio Navigation Systems(RNS),and Barometric Altimeters(BA).We propose a CNS/INS tightly-coupled graph architecture that integrates star vector observations with INS pre-integration,enabling dynamic compensation of gyroscopic bias while correcting the attitude update accuracy of INS.Then,an Interactive Multi-Model(IMM) adaptive weighting strategy is used to combine the vertical RNS factor with the BA factor for position,which can effectively reduce the altitude bias induced by the spatial configuration constraints of RNS.The simulation demonstrates that compared to the Huber M-estimation-based FGO(HMFGO),Windowing Anomaly-Detection-based FGO(WADFGO) and IMM Unscented Kalman Filter(IMMUKF)methods,the TIMMFGO method improves attitude accuracy by 46.49 %,25.68 % and 20.67 %,respectively,while correspondingly reducing position accuracy by 29.29 %,10.79 % and 6.96 %.展开更多
基金co-supported by the Open Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62401042)the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technology(No.2023QNRC001)。
文摘Continuous and highly accurate navigation of long-endurance flight vehicles continues to be a substantial challenge in Global Navigation Satellite Systems(GNSS)-denied environments.Though the integrated navigation based on multiple sensors is used to improve the navigation performance,the existing methods are prone to model mismatch and error accumulation under heterogeneous conditions of sensors.In this paper,a Tightly-coupled Interactive Multi-Model Factor Graph Optimization(TIMMFGO) navigation method is proposed to solve the problem.The developed integrated navigation framework consists of Inertial Navigation Systems(INS),Celestial Navigation Systems(CNS),Radio Navigation Systems(RNS),and Barometric Altimeters(BA).We propose a CNS/INS tightly-coupled graph architecture that integrates star vector observations with INS pre-integration,enabling dynamic compensation of gyroscopic bias while correcting the attitude update accuracy of INS.Then,an Interactive Multi-Model(IMM) adaptive weighting strategy is used to combine the vertical RNS factor with the BA factor for position,which can effectively reduce the altitude bias induced by the spatial configuration constraints of RNS.The simulation demonstrates that compared to the Huber M-estimation-based FGO(HMFGO),Windowing Anomaly-Detection-based FGO(WADFGO) and IMM Unscented Kalman Filter(IMMUKF)methods,the TIMMFGO method improves attitude accuracy by 46.49 %,25.68 % and 20.67 %,respectively,while correspondingly reducing position accuracy by 29.29 %,10.79 % and 6.96 %.
