Next Generation Motion Sensors for Hybrid GNSS/INS Solutions in high accuracy machine control applications
Start date: 05/06/2024 15:00
End date: 05/06/2024 16:30
Register for the Final Presentation of the NAVISP EL1-042 Project: MSFUSION - Next Generation Motion Sensors for Hybrid GNSS/INS Solutions in high accuracy machine control applications
MSFUSION is an innovative project, awarded by ESA – NAVISP 1 program to an international consortium led by Space Applications NV/SA (Belgium) in partnership with ANavS GmBH (Germany) targeting development of new low-cost motion and positioning multi-sensor technologies based on the exploitation of advanced calibration and sensor fusion techniques (including those using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) in order to improve the overall PNT performance in GNSS degraded environments for some industrial applications.
The MSFUSION project aimed to develop a set of bread boards for a car and a human operator with advanced localisation algorithms from multiple sensors that are fused to provide an accurate and reliable positioning solution across a diverse set of use cases that encompass almost all major challenges, including:
- Adaptive techniques (including those using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) for adaptively tuning the sensor fusion algorithms.
- Architectures and techniques (including those using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) exploiting clusters of multiple low-cost sensors of the same type (e.g. multi-IMU systems) so that the error of the combined measurement (and associated drift for dead-reckoning techniques) is reduced with respect to the individual sensors.
- Use of stable timing references (e.g. Miniaturized Atomic Clocks) for improved PNT performance.
- Tightly coupled multi-sensor techniques to improve the convergence time of PPP algorithms and the availability of accurate PNT (considering at least the case of floating ambiguities).
- Integration of multiple heterogeneous sensors including odometer, visual camera, ranging sensors (e.g. LiDAR, Time-of-Flight), IMUs and multi-GNSS receiver.
The NAVISP Project EL1-042 was funded by NAVISP Element 1, which is dedicated to technology innovation of the European industry in the wide PNT sector.