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Incorporation of Neural Network State Estimator for GPS Attitude Determination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2004

Dah-Jing Jwo
Affiliation:
Department of Communications and Guidance Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University
Chun-Fan Pai
Affiliation:
Department of Communications and Guidance Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University

Abstract

The Global Positioning System (GPS) can be employed as a free attitude determination interferometer when carrier phase measurements are utilized. Conventional approaches for the baseline vectors are essentially based on the least-squares or Kalman filtering methods. The raw attitude solutions are inherently noisy if the solutions of baseline vectors are obtained based on the least-squares method. The Kalman filter attempts to minimize the error variance of the estimation errors and will provide the optimal result while it is required that the complete a priori knowledge of both the process noise and measurement noise covariance matrices are available. In this article, a neural network state estimator, which replaces the Kalman filter, will be incorporated into the attitude determination mechanism for estimating the attitude angles from the noisy raw attitude solutions. Employing the neural network estimator improves robustness compared to the Kalman filtering method when uncertainty in noise statistical knowledge exists. Simulation is conducted and a comparative evaluation based on the neural network estimator and Kalman filter is provided.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2004 The Royal Institute of Navigation

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