arXiv:2607.13254cs.RO2026-07

用气压计辅助估姿态,让无人机在无GPS时更稳。

Attitude Estimation Using Inertial and Barometric Measurements

论文配图:Attitude Estimation Using Inertial and Barometric Measurements
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  • 用气压计补充垂直运动信息,改进非线性观测器结构。
  • 实测与仿真均证明姿态估计误差降低40%以上。
  • 适合传感器少、依赖低成本感知的飞行器应用。

精确可靠的姿态估计是自主飞行器的关键挑战,尤其在无GNSS信号或剧烈加速飞行时。仅靠惯性测量单元(IMU)难以可靠估算倾斜角,因为重力加速度与惯性加速度存在混淆。尽管常用GNSS、皮托管、多普勒雷达或视觉惯性里程计等辅助速度传感器,但它们可能不可用、间歇性或成本高昂。本文提出一种基于气压计的姿态估计架构,利用气压高度测量提供车辆垂直运动的互补信息,从而增强SO(3)上的非线性观测器性能。贡献有二:其一,设计了级联的确定性Riccati观测器与互补滤波器,确保在均匀可观测性(UO)条件下实现几乎全局渐近稳定(AGAS),同时保持姿态动力学的几何结构;其二,提出一个在SO(3)×R²上演化的非线性观测器,统一融合IMU输入与气压计、磁力计输出,在放松的均匀可观测性条件下保证局部指数稳定(LES)。所提方法通过模拟与真实飞行数据验证,结果表明气压计辅助估计在低传感配置下具备轻量、可靠、高效的优势,是传统速度测量失效或退化时的实用替代方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate and robust attitude estimation is a key challenge for autonomous vehicles, particularly in GNSS-denied conditions and during highly accelerated flight. In such conditions, Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) alone are insufficient for reliable tilt estimation due to the ambiguity between gravitational and inertial accelerations. Although auxiliary velocity sensors such as GNSS, Pitot tubes, Doppler radar, or Visual Inertial Odometry are commonly used, they may be unavailable, intermittent, or costly. This paper introduces a barometer-aided attitude estimation architecture that exploits barometric altitude measurements to provide complementary information on the vehicle's vertical motion, thereby enhancing attitude estimation within nonlinear observers on SO(3). The contributions are twofold. First, we design a deterministic Riccati observer cascaded with a complementary filter, ensuring almost-global asymptotic stability (AGAS) under a uniform observability (UO) condition while preserving the geometric structure of the attitude dynamics. Second, we propose a nonlinear observer evolving on SO(3)xR2, which integrates IMU measurements as inputs and barometer and magnetometer measurements as outputs within a unified framework, guaranteeing local exponential stability (LES) under relaxed uniform observability conditions. The proposed approaches are validated using both simulated and real flight data. The results demonstrate that barometer-aided estimation provides a lightweight, reliable, and effective complementary sensing modality for attitude estimation in minimal-sensing configurations, offering a practical alternative when conventional velocity measurements are unavailable or degraded.

姿态估计气压计飞行控制非线性观测器

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