Rapid Transfer Alignment of SINS with Measurement Packet Dropping based on a Novel Suboptimal Estimator

Hongde Dai; Juan Li; Liang Tang; Xibin Wang

doi:10.14429/dsj.69.12855

Hongde Dai School of Basic Sciences for Aviation, Naval Aviation University, Yantai - 264 001
Juan Li College of Mathematics and Statistics, Ludong University, Yantai - 264 025
Liang Tang Laishan Airport, Yantai - 264 007
Xibin Wang School of Basic Sciences for Aviation, Naval Aviation University, Yantai - 264 001

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/dsj.69.12855

Keywords: Transfer alignment, Strapdown inertial navigation system, Kalman filter, Packet dropping

Abstract

Transfer alignment (TA) is an important step for strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) starting from a moving base, which utilises the information proposed from the higher accurate and well performed master inertial navigation system. But the information is often delayed or even lost in real application, which will seriously affect the accuracy of TA. This paper models the stochastic measurement packet dropping as an independent identically distributed (IID) Bernoulli random process, and introduces it into the measurement equation of rapid TA, and the influence of measurement packet dropping is analysed. Then, it presents a suboptimal estimator for the estimation of the misalignment in TA considering the random arrival of the measurement packet. Simulation has been done for the performance comparison about the suboptimal estimator, standard Kalman filter and minimum mean squared estimator. The results show that the suboptimal estimator has better performance, which can achieve the best TA accuracy.

Author Biographies

Hongde Dai, School of Basic Sciences for Aviation, Naval Aviation University, Yantai - 264 001

Dr Dai Hongde received his BS, MSc and PhDin 2004 and 2008, all from Northwestern Polytechincal University, now he is an Associate Professor with School of Basic Sciences for Aviation, Naval Aviation University. His main research interests include inertial technology and integrated navigation, filtering and estimation theory, and PHM of airborne system.

He has introduced the original idea of this work, conceived and designed the experiments. He has also contributed in writing the research paper.

Juan Li, College of Mathematics and Statistics, Ludong University, Yantai - 264 025

Dr Li Juan, received her MSc in 2006 from Northwestern Polytechincal University, and PhDin 2018 from Air Force Engineering University. Now she is lecturer in Lu Dong University, her main research interests include statistical modelling, prognosis and health management, remaining useful life estimation.

She has derived the estimator, analysed the experimental data, and also contributed in the paper writing.

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