Attitude determination from GNSS using adaptive Kalman filtering

An adaptive Kalman filtering approach is proposed for attitude determination to replace the fixed (conventional) Kalman filtering approach. The filter is used to adaptively reflect system dynamics changes or rapid changes in vehicle trajectory. The estimation procedure is carried out through the...

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Main Authors: El-Mowafy, Ahmed, Mohamed, A.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36068
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author El-Mowafy, Ahmed
Mohamed, A.
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Mohamed, A.
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description An adaptive Kalman filtering approach is proposed for attitude determination to replace the fixed (conventional) Kalman filtering approach. The filter is used to adaptively reflect system dynamics changes or rapid changes in vehicle trajectory. The estimation procedure is carried out through the use of a measurement residual sequence. The sequence is used as a piece-wise stationary process inside an estimation window. The measurement noise covariance matrix and the system noise matrix are adaptively estimated. An extended Kalman filter approach with iteration of the states within-an-epoch was performed to overcome the non-linearity of the observation equations. A test was performed to evaluate the proposed technique. Different trajectory scenarios are presented to show the difference in performance between the adaptive Kalman filter and the conventional one. Results show that the proposed adoptive filtering approach has a better performance than the conventional filter.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-360682017-09-13T15:18:39Z Attitude determination from GNSS using adaptive Kalman filtering El-Mowafy, Ahmed Mohamed, A. GNSS Adaptive estimation GPS Attitude determination An adaptive Kalman filtering approach is proposed for attitude determination to replace the fixed (conventional) Kalman filtering approach. The filter is used to adaptively reflect system dynamics changes or rapid changes in vehicle trajectory. The estimation procedure is carried out through the use of a measurement residual sequence. The sequence is used as a piece-wise stationary process inside an estimation window. The measurement noise covariance matrix and the system noise matrix are adaptively estimated. An extended Kalman filter approach with iteration of the states within-an-epoch was performed to overcome the non-linearity of the observation equations. A test was performed to evaluate the proposed technique. Different trajectory scenarios are presented to show the difference in performance between the adaptive Kalman filter and the conventional one. Results show that the proposed adoptive filtering approach has a better performance than the conventional filter. 2005 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36068 10.1017/S0373463304003042 Cambridge University Press restricted
spellingShingle GNSS
Adaptive estimation
GPS
Attitude determination
El-Mowafy, Ahmed
Mohamed, A.
Attitude determination from GNSS using adaptive Kalman filtering
title Attitude determination from GNSS using adaptive Kalman filtering
title_full Attitude determination from GNSS using adaptive Kalman filtering
title_fullStr Attitude determination from GNSS using adaptive Kalman filtering
title_full_unstemmed Attitude determination from GNSS using adaptive Kalman filtering
title_short Attitude determination from GNSS using adaptive Kalman filtering
title_sort attitude determination from gnss using adaptive kalman filtering
topic GNSS
Adaptive estimation
GPS
Attitude determination
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36068