As PhD students, we found it difficult to access the research we needed, so we decided to create a new Open Access publisher that levels the playing field for scientists across the world. When the noise in the parameters of carrier motion is big, the noise in will be directly influenced because the parameters are used to calculate directly in standard KF; then the variance of state estimation error will be directly influenced, while, in the simplified KF, negative effect of the noise in motion parameters will be smoothed for the summation and average operation on ; then it can be deduced that, with simplified KF, the estimation error in state vector will be suppressed and filtering accuracy will be increased. The shape of the line will be different at each run. Kalman filter is an algorithm to estimate unknown variables of interest based on a linear model. The system measurement equation can be constructed as follows [1, 8]:where is the measurement matrix and is the measurement noise. The ground clearance and the barometric altitude correspond to the above ground level (AGL) height and the mean sea level (MSL) height, respectively. Kalman filters are used to estimate states based on linear dynamical systems in state space format. Program an Autonomous Vehicle; How a self-driving car work! Unlike GNSS’s, TRN systems are resistant to electronic jamming and interference, and are able to operate in a wide range of weather conditions. The system state equation can be constructed as follows [1, 8]: where is the system state transition matrix, is the system process noise, and is the noise interference input matrix. Suppose ek−1∼N0I3×3σe2. As mobile platforms, ships are usually equipped with gimbal inertial navigation system or gimbal compass/log and other high accuracy navigation equipment to provide the ship motion information including speed, position, and attitude. Time history of an estimation result for x-axis position and velocity is drawn together with the true value in Figure 4. In this example, we consider only position and velocity, omitting attitude information. Sun, J. Weng, Q. Zhou, and Y. Qin, “Time-asynchrony identification between inertial sensors in SIMU,”, D. Wan and Y. Liu, “Summary on removing influence of ship deformation and providing accurate attitude references for warship,”, J. E. Kain and J. R. Cloutier, “Rapid transfer alignment for tactical weapon applications,” in, X. Liu, X. Xu, Y. Liu, and L. Wang, “A fast and high-accuracy transfer alignment method between M/S INS for ship based on iterative calculation,”, X. Liu, X. Xu, D. Feng et al., “Design of software structure of SINS on VxWorks,”. Xixiang Liu, Jian Sima, Yongjiang Huang, Xianjun Liu, Pan Zhang, "A Simplified Kalman Filter for Integrated Navigation System with Low-Dynamic Movement", Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. In this way, we can prevent at least the position estimate from diverging. The swinging parameters are shown in Table 4. From the calculation process, as shown in Figure 1, the filtering process can be divided into the loops of gain calculation and filter calculation. According to the relationship between the measurement vector and the state vector, the measurement matrix can be expressed as. This linear model describes the evolution of the estimated variables over time in response to model initial conditions as well as known and unknown model inputs. That is, x̂is an estimate of x. The standard deviation of the estimation errors and the estimated standard deviation for x-axis position and velocity are drawn in Figure 2. These disadvantages can be resolved by using spline interpolation. In the rest of this paper, Strapdown INS is used as Slave INS and the difference is not distinguished. One of the simplest methods is linear interpolation. Note that the estimated error covariance matrix is affected solely by P0+, Q, and R, judging from the Kalman filter algorithm. Discretize (11) as follows:where is the measurement update period. However, this critical aspect of an INS is often overlooked when selecting a product, mainly because it's hard to distil into a single datasheet value. Thus the calculation load in the simplified algorithm will be significantly lessened. The initial state of the target is x0=10−100−1−20T. In this paper, low-dynamic motion is defined as follows: a vehicle is with a constant velocity in the same direction and (or) with a perturbation of acceleration but without constant acceleration. The point (20, 10) in the grid corresponds to the position 600300Tin the navigation frame. The filter algorithm is very similar to Kalman filter. The radar measurement space being a non linear function requires linearization to apply Kalman Filter. For the nonlinear systems, the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) were invented, and their principle is to convert nonlinear systems into linear systems for filtering [8, 9]. During simulation, the update frequencies of SINS and MINS are set as 100 Hz and 1 Hz, respectively. The standard deviation of the estimation error, or the root mean square error (RMSE), can be obtained by computing standard deviation of Mestimation errors for each time step. Note that and in (8) are all functions of and is the function of which can be traced back to the fixed value at the zero point. The above equation can be rearranged as: where I3×3and 03×3denote 3×3identity and zero matrices, respectively. Compared with the calculation amount in matrix multiplication, the above calculation in simplified KF can be ignored. That is to say, the simplified algorithm can smooth the noise in carrier motion and improve the accuracy of data fusion.Note that, in Case 1, the ship is sailing along -axis of body frame with a constant velocity, but the ship is swinging obeying sine function; when the motions are projected into navigation frame, there exist irregular sine motions along all axes along navigation frame. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation (61273056). The relationship between the measurement and the relative target state with respect to the sensor comprises the measurement model as: where pk=xtytztTis the position vector of the target and xsyszsTis the position vector of the sensor. Classical approach to use polynomials of degree 3 is called cubic spline. In this study, the estimation accuracy of the motion state obtained using the extended Kalman filter, unscented Kalman filter, and cubature Kalman filter in case of different vessel motions is compared based on the simulated ship sensor data obtained using a dynamic large surface vessel model under various marine conditions. Then, it can be concluded that the simplified KF can reduce computation amount of KF effectively. Kalman filter performance is a major contributor to overall navigation accuracy. The prediction requirement Before diving into the Kalman Filter explanation, let's first understand the need for the prediction algorithm. Similar to operation as (9) on , there exists [1, 8]. For the underwater integrated navigation system, information fusion is an important technology. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. HeadquartersIntechOpen Limited5 Princes Gate Court,London, SW7 2QJ,UNITED KINGDOM. The TRN algorithm blends a navigational solution from an inertial navigation system (INS) with the measured terrain profile underneath the aircraft. In general, the update frequency of inertial navigation system always used as main system in the integrated system with inertial base is much higher than those of aided navigation systems. Navigation with a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) will be provided as an implementation example of the Kalman filter. The Kalman filter is named after Rudolf Kalman, who is the primary developer of this theory. When the carrier is with low-dynamic motion, the changes of elements in state transition matrix are very slow. The DEMs are essentially provided as matrices containing grid-spaced elevation data. If at least one model is nonlinear, we should use nonlinear filtering technique. When the update frequencies between the main and aided systems are consistent, time update and measurement update operation will be carried out successively. The terrain elevation measurement is modeled as: where hxkdenotes terrain elevation from the DEM evaluated at the horizontal position, xk, and υkdenotes the additive Gaussian measurement noise. M=100Monte-Carlo runs were conducted with the following initial guesses: The above equation means the error of the initial guess for the target state is randomly sampled from a Gaussian distribution with a standard deviation of 5050. Kalman filter is an algorithm to estimate unknown variables of interest based on a linear model. Suppose the measurements are corrupted with a Gaussian noise whose standard deviation is 0.020.021.0T. This year we mention 60 years for the novel publication. This is essential for motion planning and controlling of field robotics, and also for trajectory optimization. The time inconsistency is mainly caused by the inconsistency of clocks used in different systems while spatial inconsistency is caused by different installing position of each system. Kalman filter algorithm consists of two stages: prediction and update. And the swing data of turntable is used as the heading reference values. The project includes Lidar and Radar data fusion. Licensee IntechOpen. In the integration of M/S INS, matching methods of velocity plus attitude and velocity plus heading are always used [14–16]. We observe that the estimation results of different simulation runs are different even if the initial guess for the state estimate is the same. In this simulation, M=100Monte-Carlo runs were conducted. One can notice that the measurement Eq. A generalization of linear interpolation is polynomial interpolation. For obtaining finer-resolution data, interpolation techniques are often used to estimate the unknown value in between the grid points. xk=ϕλTis a two-dimensional state vector, which denotes the aircraft’s horizontal position. Furthermore, due to cumulative sum and average operation, more accurate state transition matrix and higher fusion accuracy will arrive for the smoothing effect on random noise of carrier motion parameters. In this chapter, we introduced the Kalman filter and extended Kalman filter algorithms. An example for implementing the Kalman filter is navigation where the vehicle state, position, and velocity are estimated by using sensor output from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver. The matrices Qand Rare following the real statistics of the noises as: Let us consider N=100time steps (k=1,2,3,…,N)with Δt=1. Based on this understanding, in this paper, time update of KF is not executed but the variables in state transition matrix in one measurement update period are recorded. During the test, both SINS and turntable use the same time signal; after the time delays caused by data transitions, the data of turntable can be used as aided data among which only simulated heading is used as measurement. The equations for time update are as follows [1, 8]: Specific to the topic studied in this paper, the update frequency of SINS is always as 100 Hz while that of MINS is as 1 Hz. In the next section, the calculation for state transition matrix will be analyzed and a simplified KF algorithm will be presented. Take the data from 201 s~1200 s for statistic and results are shown in Table 6. The superscripts –and +denote predicted (prior) and updated (posterior) estimates, respectively. The extended Kalman filter provides us a tool for dealing with such nonlinear models in an efficient way. It is recommended for the readers to change the parameters and aircraft trajectory by yourself and see what happens. In this paper, M/S INS is studied and is set as 100. In Section 3, KF is introduced to fulfill data fusion for M/S INS integration. Since its introduction in 1960, the Kalman filter has become an integral component in thousands of military and civilian navigation systems. it uses its output as an input for the next cycle. his the measurement function that relates the current state, xk, to the measurement zk. We are a community of more than 103,000 authors and editors from 3,291 institutions spanning 160 countries, including Nobel Prize winners and some of the world’s most-cited researchers. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A Multi-State Constraint Kalman Filter for Vision-aided Inertial Navigation Anastasios I. Mourikis and Stergios I. Roumeliotis Abstract—In this paper, we present an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF)-based algorithm for real-time vision-aided inertial navigation. So, Case 1 can be regarded as a motion with approximate constant velocity and periodic changes of acceleration (or interference of acceleration). The SINS used in the test is shown in Figure 6, in which flexible gyroscope and quartz accelerometers are used with the precision shown in Table 5. Following two chapters will devote to introduce algorithms of Kalman filter and extended Kalman filter, respectively, including their applications. It encrypts the error covariance that the filter thinks the estimate error has. A Kalman filter is just a general method (and a very useful one) for state estimation and sensor fusion, which is exactly what's going on in an INS system. It can be seen that the results are similar to that in Section 4.3.2. In conclusion, this chapter will become a prerequisite for other contents in the book. In estimation theory, the extended Kalman filter (EKF) is the nonlinear version of the Kalman filter which linearizes about an estimate of the current mean and covariance.In the case of well defined transition models, the EKF has been considered the de facto standard in the theory of nonlinear state estimation, navigation systems and GPS. By doing this, you linearize the models about the current estimate. Taking the first element in as an example, denotes the coefficient of east velocity error to the changing rate of east velocity error. However, higher update frequency of SINS will bring large calculation load because the same update frequency as that of SINS is needed. The Extended Kalman Filter algorithm provides us with a way of combining or fusing data from the IMU, GPS, compass, airspeed, barometer and other sensors to calculate a more accurate and reliable estimate of our position, velocity and angular orientation. GPS is a satellite-based navigation system, which provides With this course, you will understand the importance of Kalman Filters in robotics, and how they work. We share our knowledge and peer-reveiwed research papers with libraries, scientific and engineering societies, and also work with corporate R&D departments and government entities. According to (2), (5), and the KF introduced in Section 3, the data fusion between the MINS and SINS can be fulfilled. Specific to the integrated system of M/S INS, is the navigation update period of SINS. In other words, the simplified KF can be used when the carrier is with a constant velocity or with a small interference of acceleration. The roots of the algorithm can be traced all the way back to the 18-year-old Karl Gauss's method of least squares in 1795. The most famous early use of the Kalman filter was in the Apollo navigation computer that took Neil Armstrong to the moon, and (most importantly) brought him back. In the integrated system of M/S INS, errors of SINS can be selected as state variables to construct state vector and navigation information from MINS can be regarded as aided information to construct measurement vector. Kalman filters have been demonstrating its usefulness in various applications. Observability analysis on integrated navigation system is a complex and big issue but it will not be discussed because of the purpose of this paper. In this example, the large process error covariance is the only choice a user can make because the measurement cannot correct the velocity. Obviously, statistical data verified the deduction in Section 4.2 effectively. The main difference from the Kalman filter is that the extended Kalman filter obtains predicted state estimate and predicted measurement by the nonlinear functions fxk−1uk−1and hxk, respectively. To date our community has made over 100 million downloads. Source code of MATLAB implementation for this example can be found in [5]. There is a rule of thumb called “initial ignorance,” which means that the user should choose a large P0+for quicker convergence. In Kalman Filters, the distribution is given by what’s called a Gaussian. In this turntable, the angle information of all frames can be provided via serial port as a response to external time-synchronization signal. The ideal output of sensor can be generated with the theoretical ship motion and reversal navigation solution. The statistical result can be shown as Figure 5. If the statistic characteristics of and can be assumed as and , respectively, the iterative update of KF can be expressed as shown in Figure 1, where is the estimation of state vector, is the one-step predictive value of state vector, is the error covariance matrix of state vector, is the one-step predictive value of error covariance matrix of state vector, and is the filter gain matrix. Kalman Filter Made Easy presents the Kalman Filter framework in small digestable chunks so that the reader can focus on the first principles and build up from there. The Kalman filter is widely used in present robotics such as guidance, navigation, and control of vehicles, particularly aircraft and spacecraft. As shown in Figure 6, the SINS is installed in turntable with x-, y-, and -axis coinciding with the intermediate, inner, and outer frames, respectively. Thus, TRN systems are expected to be alternative/supplement systems to GNSS’s. Applications to target tracking and navigation. This year we mention 60 years for the novel publication. This post is the first one at ain the series of "Kalman filter celebrates 60". 2016, Article ID 3528146, 9 pages, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/3528146, 1School of Instrument Science & Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China, 2Key Laboratory of Micro-Inertial Instrument and Advanced Navigation Technology, Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210096, China. The integrated system of M/S INS for ship condition is taken as example, and system and measurement equations are studied in Section 2. When white noises are added to ship’s theoretical motion, ship motion including noises can be taken as the aided information from MINS. Aiming to solve this problem, SINS with middle or low accuracy sensors are introduced and installed at the basis of the above-mentioned equipment to provide information excluding deck deformation. The main difference between two KFs is that the error amplitude from standard KF is larger than that from simplified one. The target position is the variable in this measurement model. υkcontains errors of the radar altimeter, barometric altimeter, and DEM. From the parameters in , it can be seen that the changing speed of is decided by the dynamic of carrier. After it obtains the updated state estimate, the Kalman filter calculates the updated error covariance, Pk+, which will be used in the next time step. In the M/S INS integrated system, MINS can provide various navigation information including velocity, position, and attitude with a lower update frequency than that of SINS. The elevation measurement is obtained by subtracting the ground clearance measurement from a radar altimeter, hr, from the barometric altimeter measurement, hb. In this paper, the inconsistency problem caused by different update frequency of subnavigation systems in integrated navigation system is studied. 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