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Identifying aerodynamics of small fixed-wing drones using inertial measurements for model-based navigation

Sharma, Aman  
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Laupré, Gabriel François  
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Skaloud, Jan  
2023
NAVIGATION

The success of drone missions is incumbent on an accurate determination of the drone pose and velocity, which are collectively estimated by fusing iner- tial measurement unit and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) mea- surements. However, during a GNSS outage, the long-term accuracy of these estimations are far from allowing practical use. In contrast, vehicle dynamic model (VDM)-based navigation has demonstrated significant improvement in autonomous positioning during GNSS outages. This improvement is achieved by incorporating mathematical models of aerodynamic forces/moments in the sensor fusion architecture. Such an approach, however, relies on a knowledge of aerodynamic model parameters, specific to the operating vehicle. We present a novel calibration algorithm to identify these parameters from the flight data of two geometrically different drones. The identified parameters, when used in the VDM framework, show a significant reduction in navigation drift during GNSS outages. Moreover, the obtained results show that the proposed algorithm is independent of the choice of fixed-wing platform and prior knowledge of aerodynamics.

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research article
DOI
10.33012/navi.611
Author(s)
Sharma, Aman  
Laupré, Gabriel François  
Skaloud, Jan  
Date Issued

2023

Published in
NAVIGATION
Volume

70

Issue

4

Start page

34

Subjects

extended Kalman filter

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observability Gramian

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partial update

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recursive least squares

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Schmidt–Kalman filter

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ESOLAB

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topotraj

Note

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754354.

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

FunderGrant Number

FNS

200021182072

H2020

754354

Available on Infoscience
August 17, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/199929
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