Title
State Estimation For Hale Uavs With Deep-Learning-Aided Virtual Aoa/Ssa Sensors For Analytical Redundancy
Abstract
High-altitudelong-endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are employed in a variety of fields because of their ability to fly for a long time at high altitudes, even in the stratosphere. Two paramount concerns exist: enhancing their safety during long-term flight and reducing their weight as much as possible to increase their energy efficiency based on analytical redundancy approaches. In this letter, a novel deep-learning-aided navigation filter is proposed, which consists of two parts: an end-to-end mapping-based synthetic sensor measurement model that utilizes long short-term memory (LSTM) networks to estimate the angle of attack (AOA) and sideslip angle (SSA) and an unscented Kalman filter for state estimation. Our proposed method can not only reduce the weight of HALE UAVs but also ensure their safety by means of an analytical redundancy approach. In contrast to conventional approaches, our LSTM-based method achieves better estimation by virtue of its nonlinear mapping capability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/LRA.2021.3074084
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Aerodynamics, Atmospheric measurements, Sensors, State estimation, Redundancy, Global Positioning System, Pollution measurement, Sensor fusion, aerial systems, applications, field robotics, ai-enabled robotics
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
2377-3766
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wonkeun Youn113.40
Hyungtae Lim223.75
Hyoung Sik Choi361.66
Matthew B. Rhudy4346.00
Hyeok Ryu510.71
Sungyug Kim611.03
Hyun Myung795.94