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Speed Sensor-Aided Navigation Filter for Robust Localization in GNSS-Denied Mining Environments

David Benz, Jan-Jöran Gehrt, René Zweigel, and Dirk Abel
NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation March 2023, 70 (1) navi.566; DOI: https://doi.org/10.33012/navi.566
David Benz
Institute of Automatic Control, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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Jan-Jöran Gehrt
Institute of Automatic Control, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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René Zweigel,
Institute of Automatic Control, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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Dirk Abel
Institute of Automatic Control, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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    Schematic depiction of the navigation filter based on Gehrt et al. (2019): Variables with a hat symbol are estimated values, whereas the tilde indicates measurements.

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    a) is a schematic depiction of the Correvit sensor functionality according to Haus and Lauinger (2007) while b) is a schematic illustration of the sensor mounting in top view.

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    Final navigation filter with sequential measurement models

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    One of the three research dump trucks from the ARTUS project with a rugged hardware attachment; all sensors are placed on the rear vehicle body. The illumination of the ground by the Correvit sensor is well recognizable.

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    Birds-eye view of the driven trajectory: a) test drive on a parking lot and b) represents evaluation in a gravel pit. The data belongs to the real-time kinematic (RTK) reference solution. The timestamps correspond to those of all other evaluation figures.

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    Raw Correvit sensor output of the lateral and longitudinal speed component

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    Comparison of the three navigation filters: basic UKF (without Correvit), Correvit UKF, and Correvit + MAE UKF

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    Estimated misalignment angle δ: The estimation starts after the vehicle begins moving at second 25.5. a) depicts the misalignment angle of the measurement setup while b) depicts a simulated misalignment angle of 5°. In both cases, the angle is estimated within 35 s.

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    Comparison of the three navigation filters in offline postprocessing

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    Comparison of the three navigation filters in offline postprocessing with the data from the test drive in the gravel pit

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    Position and Heading Errors of the Three Offline-Evaluated Filters for all Presented Experiments

    2D-error (m)Heading error (°)
    FilterEmbedded ImageσEmbedded ImageP99Embedded ImageσEmbedded ImageP99
    Normal environmental conditions
    Basic UKF0.220.090.210.431.170.880.665.53
    Correvit UKF0.220.090.210.430.740.840.575.53
    Correvit + MAE UKF0.220.090.210.430.830.890.665.53
    Simulated GNSS cutoff
    Basic UKF37.8656.880.79192.881.81.041.665.53
    Correvit UKF0.260.080.250.460.891.070.525.53
    Correvit + MAE UKF0.230.110.220.440.961.110.575.53
    Open-pit mine
    Basic UKF85.37145.350.37555.670.920.890.693.64
    Correvit UKF0.240.160.180.60.770.720.563.76
    Correvit + MAE UKF0.240.140.170.520.860.880.554.11

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