1. Invariant Observer Design for a Helicopter UAV Aided Inertial Navigation System.
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Barczyk, Martin and Lynch, Alan F.
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SYSTEMS design ,HELICOPTERS ,MAGNETOMETERS ,GLOBAL Positioning System ,NONLINEAR dynamical systems ,MATHEMATICAL models ,KALMAN filtering - Abstract
The invariant observer is a recently introduced constructive nonlinear design method for symmetry-possessing systems such as the magnetometer-plus-global positioning system (GPS)-aided inertial navigation system (INS) example considered in this paper. The resulting observer guarantees a simplified form of the nonlinear estimation error dynamics, which can be stabilized by a proper choice of observer gains using a nonlinear analysis. A systematic approach to this step is the invariant Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), which is modified from its originally proposed form and applied to the aided INS example to obtain the observer gains. The resulting invariant observer is implemented onboard an outdoor helicopter unmanned aerial vehicle platform and successfully validated in experiment and demonstrates an improvement in performance over a conventional (non-invariant) EKF design. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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