학술논문

Performance Enhancement of Tightly Coupled GNSS/IMU Integration Based on Factor Graph With Robust TDCP Loop Closure
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems IEEE Trans. Intell. Transport. Syst. Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 25(3):2437-2449 Mar, 2024
Subject
Transportation
Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Global navigation satellite system
Doppler effect
Phase measurement
Current measurement
Receivers
Simultaneous localization and mapping
Satellites
Single-frequency observations
GNSS/IMU
tightly coupled integration
TDCP loop closure
factor graph
obstructed environments
Language
ISSN
1524-9050
1558-0016
Abstract
To autonomous systems (ASs) equipped with single-frequency GNSS chipsets, it is hard to fully use the high-precision carrier phase to assist positioning as the inherent integer ambiguity cannot be reliably obtained using only single-frequency observations, especially in obstructed environments. Although the time difference can be done to eliminate the integer ambiguity to form accurate constraint in graph based fusion, cycle slip is not properly handled in current methods, leading to degraded performance. In this paper, a performance enhancement of tightly coupled GNSS/IMU integration based on factor graph with robust time-differenced carrier phase (TDCP) loop closure is proposed. Different from traditional methods, cycle slip detection is firstly performed, and the effect of cycle slip can be eliminated in the formation of loop closure, which can bring about better robustness. Doppler frequency shift is used to detect cycle slip and carrier phase measurements at corresponding epochs are then selected to build TDCP loop closure. The proposed robust TDCP loop closure is fused with pseudorange, Doppler frequency shift and IMU via factor graph, which can make the full use of the absolute and relative measurements to enhance the performance of tightly coupled GNSS/IMU integration. Simulation and field tests are conducted to validate the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method can improve the positioning performance with robust TDCP loop closure. Meanwhile, the computational load of proposed method is discussed.