1. A hybrid cooperative navigation method for UAV swarm based on factor graph and Kalman filter.
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Chen, Mingxing, Xiong, Zhi, Xiong, Jun, and Wang, Rong
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AERONAUTICAL navigation ,KALMAN filtering ,GLOBAL Positioning System ,MONTE Carlo method - Abstract
Navigation plays an important role in the task execution of the micro-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm. The Cooperative Navigation (CN) method that fuses the observation of onboard sensors and relative information between UAVs is a research hotspot. Aiming at the efficiency and accuracy problems of previous studies, this article proposes a hybrid-CN method for UAV swarm based on Factor Graph and Kalman filter. A global Factor Graph is used to combine Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and ranging information to provide position estimations for modifying the distributed Kalman filter; distributed Kalman filter is established on each UAV to fuse inertial information and optimized position estimation to modify the navigation states. In order to provide time-consistent GNSS position information for the Factor Graph, a time synchronization filter is designed. The proposed method is tested and verified using standard Monte Carlo simulations, simulation results show that it can provide a more precise and efficient CN solution than traditional CN methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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