Research on the automotive sensor–aided low-cost inertial navigation system for land vehicles

Abstract

When a low-cost micro-electro-mechanical system inertial measurement unit is used for a vehicle navigation system, errors will quickly accumulate because of the large micro-electro-mechanical system sensor measurement noise. To solve this problem, an automotive sensor–aided low-cost inertial navigation system is proposed in this article. The error-state model of the strapdown inertial navigation system has been derived, and the measurements from the wheel speed sensor and steer angle sensor are used as the new observation vector. Then, the micro-electro-mechanical system inertial measurement unit/wheel speed sensor/steer angle sensor–integrated system is established based on adaptive Kalman filtering. The experimental results show that the positioning error of micro-electro-mechanical system inertial measurement unit/wheel speed sensor/steer angle sensor is 94.67%, 98.88%, and 97.88% less than the values using pure strapdown inertial navigation system in the east, north, and down directions, respectively. The yaw angle error is reduced to less than 1°, and the vehicle velocity estimation of micro-electro-mechanical system inertial measurement unit/wheel speed sensor/steer angle sensor–integrated navigation system is closer to the reference value. These results show the precision of the integrated navigation solution.