Flight Testing and Data Evaluation of MEMS INS/GPS Hybridisation Filters - First Results

Meiko Steen, Per Martin Schachtebeck, René Plate, Peter Hecker, Stephane Monrocq

Abstract:	State of the art navigation grade inertial reference units come at a considerable price and there is strong demand to employ less costly technology, like the evolving MEMS inertial technology. Current MEMS sensors, however, exhibit severe limitations concerning bias stability, non-linearity, temperature dependency, susceptibility to vibration and acceleration, and crosscoupling between the system’s axes. To evaluate the use of current MEMS technology within inertial reference units for positioning and attitude and heading reference research and development activities among others were conducted in the ANASTASIA project. ANASTASIA (Airborne New and Advanced Satellite techniques and Technologies in A System Integrated Approach) is an integrated project which receives funding from the European Community’s Sixth Framework Programme (DG research); see www.anastasia-fp6.org. This paper presents a first evaluation of the developed conceptual design for the hybridization of MEMS INS with GPS based on simulation, ground and flight testing.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 21st International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2008) September 16 - 19, 2008 Savannah International Convention Center Savannah, GA
Pages:	48 - 56
Cite this article:	Steen, Meiko, Schachtebeck, Per Martin, Plate, René, Hecker, Peter, Monrocq, Stephane, "Flight Testing and Data Evaluation of MEMS INS/GPS Hybridisation Filters - First Results," Proceedings of the 21st International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2008), Savannah, GA, September 2008, pp. 48-56.
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