Title
An Improved Multi-Sensor Fusion Navigation Algorithm Based on the Factor Graph.
Abstract
An integrated navigation system coupled with additional sensors can be used in the Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MUAV) applications because the multi-sensor information is redundant and complementary, which can markedly improve the system accuracy. How to deal with the information gathered from different sensors efficiently is an important problem. The fact that different sensors provide measurements asynchronously may complicate the processing of these measurements. In addition, the output signals of some sensors appear to have a non-linear character. In order to incorporate these measurements and calculate a navigation solution in real time, the multi-sensor fusion algorithm based on factor graph is proposed. The global optimum solution is factorized according to the chain structure of the factor graph, which allows for a more general form of the conditional probability density. It can convert the fusion matter into connecting factors defined by these measurements to the graph without considering the relationship between the sensor update frequency and the fusion period. An experimental MUAV system has been built and some experiments have been performed to prove the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3390/s17030641
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
micro unmanned aerial vehicle,multi-sensor information fusion,factor graph,probability density
Factor graph,Graph,Navigation system,Global optimum,Fusion,Algorithm,Sensor fusion,Engineering,Probability density function,Conditional probability density
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
17
3.0
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qinghua Zeng1429.85
Weina Chen231.18
Jianye Liu38412.81
Huizhe Wang430.84