Title
Selective Integration of GNSS, Vision Sensor, and INS Using Weighted DOP Under GNSS-Challenged Environments
Abstract
Accurate and precise navigation solution can be obtained by integrating multiple sensors such as global navigation satellite system (GNSS), vision sensor, and inertial navigation system (INS). However, accuracy of position solutions under GNSS-challenged environment occasionally degrades due to poor distributions of GNSS satellites and feature points from vision sensors. This paper proposes a selective integration method, which improves positioning accuracy under GNSS-challenged environments when applied to the multiple navigation sensors such as GNSS, a vision sensor, and INS. A performance index is introduced to recognize poor environments where navigation errors increase when measurements are added. The weighted least squares method was applied to derive the performance index, which measures the goodness of geometrical distributions of the satellites and feature points. It was also used to predict the position errors and the effects of the integration, and as a criterion to select the navigation sensors to be integrated. The feasibility of the proposed method was verified through a simulation and an experimental test. The performance index was examined by checking its correlation with the positional error covariance, and the performance of the selective navigation was verified by comparing its solution with the reference position. The results show that the selective integration of multiple sensors improves the positioning accuracy compared with nonselective integration when applied under GNSS-challenged environments. It is especially effective when satellites and feature points are posed in certain directions and have poor geometry.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TIM.2014.2304365
IEEE T. Instrumentation and Measurement
Keywords
Field
DocType
selective integration,global positioning system (gps),geometrical distributions,position solutions,gnss challenged environments,satellite navigation,navigation sensors,selective navigation,sensor fusion.,estimation,computer vision,satellite points,selective integration method,inertial navigation system,ins,least squares approximations,image sensors,weighted least squares method,reference position,performance index,satellite navigation system,navigation,weighted dop,position errors,global navigation satellite system,feature points,inertial navigation,multiple navigation sensors,vision sensor,sensor fusion
Inertial navigation system,Computer vision,Satellite navigation,GPS/INS,GNSS augmentation,Air navigation,Dead reckoning,Artificial intelligence,GNSS applications,Dilution of precision,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
63
9
0018-9456
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.46
7
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dae Hee Won1153.03
Eunsung Lee2406.27
Moonbeom Heo3315.56
Seung-Woo Lee430.46
Jiyun Lee561.28
Jeong-Rae Kim6294.66
Sang-kyung Sung7125.36
Young-Jae Lee87717.96