Interference fringe fitting of atom gravimeter based on fitness particle swarm optimization

Abstract

In the atom gravimeter, three Raman pulses are utilized to realize the interference of atom matter waves, and atom interference fringes are obtained by scanning the chirp rate of the Raman laser during the interference time. Previously, fringe data analysis methods used LS (Least Squares) to fit the cosine function of each interference fringe data to minimize the standard deviation between the estimated value and the observed value of each group of fringe data or the EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) method to obtain the estimation of the gravity value. In this paper, we propose a new method applied to the interference fringe fitting of the atom gravimeter, namely, through the FPSO (Fitness Particle Swarm Optimization) method to estimate the parameters of the interference fringe atom and then estimate the gravity value. First, the theoretical analysis and proof are carried out by using simulation data. On this basis, we carried out a gravity measurement experiment in the ship-mounted mooring state, which further verified the feasibility and effectiveness of the algorithm. The simulation and experimental results show that, compared with LS and EKF methods, the FPSO method can search the relatively optimal fitting parameters of atom interference fringes quickly and accurately and improve the accuracy and stability of the atom gravimeter measurement. It is feasible and effective to apply the FPSO method to fitting atom interference fringes. The FPSO method proposed in this paper can be used as a new method for fitting atom interference fringes, which provides a new idea and choice for accurate gravity measurement in a dynamic environment.