Use of a reduced IMU to aid a GPS receiver with adaptive tracking loops for land vehicle navigation

GPS Solutions - Tập 14 - Trang 319-329 - 2010
D. Sun1, M. G. Petovello1, M. E. Cannon1
1Position, Location And Navigation (PLAN) Group, Department of Geomatics Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Tóm tắt

A reduced inertial measurement unit (IMU) consisting of only one vertical gyro and two horizontal accelerometers or three orthogonal accelerometers can be used in land vehicle navigation systems to reduce volume and cost. In this paper, a reduced IMU is integrated with a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver whose phase lock loops (PLLs) are aided with the Doppler shift from the integrated system. This approach is called tight integration with loop aiding (TLA). With Doppler aiding, the noise bandwidth of the PLL loop filters can be narrowed more than in the GPS-only case, which results in improved noise suppression within the receiver. In this paper, first the formulae to calculate the PLL noise bandwidth in a TLA GPS/reduced IMU are derived and used to design an adaptive PLL loop filter. Using a series of vehicle tests, results show that the noise bandwidth calculation formulae are valid and the adaptive loop filter can improve the performance of the TLA GPS/reduced IMU in both navigation performance and PLL tracking ability.

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