Attitude determination algorithm using state estimation including lever arms between center of gravity and IMU

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• 作者：Tae Hyun Fang ; Sang Hyun Park ; Kiyeol Seo…
• 关键词：Attitude determination ; IMU ; lever arm ; quaternion
• 刊名：International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：14
• 期：6
• 页码：1511-1519
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Control, Robotics, Mechatronics;
• 出版者：Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems and The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
• ISSN：2005-4092
• 卷排序：14

文摘

In this paper, an enhanced attitude determination algorithm is proposed to decrease the estimation error by including an additive state variable for the lever arm. Attitude determination generally is carried out by measurements from an IMU (inertial measurement unit), which is typically located at the center of gravity of the vehicle. The IMU lever arm, which spans the distance between the IMU and the center of gravity, causes extra acceleration in the accelerometer and increases the error in attitude estimates. However, if the extra accelerations caused by the lever arm can be removed from the measurements of accelerometers, the increased attitude error caused by the IMU lever arm can be prevented. Because an IMU lever arm is fixed in a vehicle after installation, it can be considered as an additive element of the state vector in Kalman filter for attitude determination. The proposed algorithm is composed of a quaternion-based Kalman filter and includes an estimation of the IMU lever arm. In addition, in order to determine components of lever arm, the gross measure of modal observability is investigated for the system. An evaluation of the proposed algorithm is carried out by simulations with a noise model based on an actual IMU. Evaluations through simulations show that the proposed algorithm improves the performance with regard to errors.