Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 54, Issue 2, 22801(2017)

Application of INS/Optical Flow/Magnetometer/Barometer Integrated Navigation System in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Li Tao*, Liang Jianqi, Yan Hao, Zhu Zhifei, and Tang Jun
Author Affiliations
  • [in Chinese]
  • show less

    One navigation scheme by integrating inertial navigation system (INS)/optical flow/magnetometer/barometer is proposed based on the extended Kalman filtering. Through data fusion of INS, optical flow and barometer, the speed and position of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are estimated. When UAV is at rest or in motion with constant velocity, the UAV attitude is estimated by means of data fusion of gyro, accelerometer, magnetometer, and optical flow. When UAV is accelerated or decelerated, the gyroscope data is used to estimate the UAV attitude. The experimental results show that, the speed error for UAV is reduced from the maximum 20 m/s to 10 m/s, and the angle error is reduced from the maximum 80° to 10°. This scheme can effectively solve the cumulative error problem of velocity, position and attitude estimation.

    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Li Tao, Liang Jianqi, Yan Hao, Zhu Zhifei, Tang Jun. Application of INS/Optical Flow/Magnetometer/Barometer Integrated Navigation System in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2017, 54(2): 22801

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Category: Remote Sensing and Sensors

    Received: Sep. 30, 2016

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Feb. 10, 2017

    The Author Email: Tao Li (631055037@qq.com)

    DOI:10.3788/lop54.022801

    Topics