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A New Self-Calibration and Compensation Method for Installation Errors of Uniaxial Rotation Module Inertial
Meng Niu1, Hongyu Ma2, Xinglin Sun1
1College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
Abstract:
Calibration and compensation techniques are essential to improve the accuracy of the strap-down inertial navigation system. Especially for the new uniaxial rotation module inertial navigation system (URMINS), replacing faulty uniaxial rotation modules introduces installation errors between modules and reduces navigation accuracy. Therefore, it is necessary to calibrate these systems effectively and compensate for the installation error between modules. This paper proposes a new self-calibration and compensation method for installation errors without additional information and equipment. Using the attitude, velocity, and position differences between the two sets of navigation information output from URMINS as measurements, a Kalman filter is constructed and the installation error is estimated. After URMINS is compensated for the installation error, the average of the demodulated redundant information is taken to calculate the carrier's navigation information. The simulation results show that the proposed method can effectively assess the installation error between modules with an estimation accuracy better than 5". Experimental results for static navigation show that the accuracy of heading angle and positioning can be improved by 73.12% and 81.19% after the URMINS has compensated for the estimated installation errors. Simulation and experimental results further validate the effectiveness of the proposed self-calibration and compensation method.
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