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Position Accuracy with Redundant MEMS IMU for Road Applications

Clausen, Philipp  
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Skaloud, Jan  
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Gilliéron, Pierre-Yves  
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2015
Proceedings of the ENC-GNSS 2015
European Navigation Conference GNSS

The diversity of road applications and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) makes the definition of positioning integrity a real challenge because the requirements are changing from one application to another. Even within liability or safety critical applications, the role of positioning may vary if the application layer requires a position at specific location (e.g. emergency call) or a series of positions along a vehicle’s trajectory (e.g. transport of dangerous goods). -- This paper is focusing on the positioning assessment of vehicle trajectories collected by different navigation sensors (GNSS and redundant MEMS Inertial Measurement Units (R-IMU)) in real test scenarios. Single GNSS, integrated GNSS and R-IMU are compared to a high quality ground truth solution based on a high-end navigation system. The low cost equipment is based on a single frequency GNSS receiver combined with four IMUs (triad of accelerometers and gyroscopes) of the same type. The architecture and the algorithms for the sensors integration have been developed at EPFL and are used on several mobile platforms (land vehicles, ultra-light planes, micro-drones). A series of measurements of different kind and thus dynamics have been conducted by EPFL and NTUA during a scientific mission form the COST Action TU1302 on Satellite Positioning Performance Assessment for Road Transport (SaPPART). Several test scenarios were performed in different traffic and environmental conditions in order to face with challenging GNSS signal reception. Road sections have been selected ranging from open sky condition (e.g. rural roads) down to poor GNSS reception (e.g. urban road network). The evaluation of the positioning quality is done by comparing the position-output from several solutions: single GNSS, D-GNSS, integrated GNSS/R-IMU. The comparison to a reference trajectory of precisely time-stamped positions allows to calculate and to plot along-track as well as cross-track differences. This visualisation of the results make sense for many road applications like road user charging (RUC), pay as you drive and some advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Finally, this quality assessment of vehicle positioning in real conditions will be a valuable material for future simulations of navigation systems in severe conditions. This contribution is fully adequate to the goals of the COST Action SaPPART, especially for the definition of the performance assessment methodology.

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conference paper
Author(s)
Clausen, Philipp  
Skaloud, Jan  
Gilliéron, Pierre-Yves  
Merminod, Bertrand  
Perakis, Harris
Gikas, Vassilis
Spyropoulou, Ioanna
Date Issued

2015

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Proceedings of the ENC-GNSS 2015
Subjects

GNSS

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Inertial navigation

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Road transport

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toporoad

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SaPPART

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NON-REVIEWED

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EPFL

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
European Navigation Conference GNSS

Bordeaux, France

April 7-10, 2015

Available on Infoscience
April 24, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/113511
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