The Use of Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Performance Improvement of Low-Cost Integrated Navigation Systems.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

In this paper, the authors investigate the possibility of applying artificial intelligence algorithms to the outputs of a low-cost Kalman filter-based navigation solution in order to achieve performance similar to that of high-end MEMS inertial sensors. To further improve the results of the prototype and simultaneously lighten filter requirements, different AI models are compared in this paper to determine their performance in terms of complexity and accuracy. By overcoming some known limitations (e.g., sensitivity on the dimension of input data from inertial sensors) and starting from Kalman filter applications (whose raw noise parameter estimates were obtained from a simple analysis of sensor specifications), such a solution presents an intermediate behavior compared to the current state of the art. It allows the exploitation of the power of AI models. Different Neural Network models have been taken into account and compared in terms of measurement accuracy and a number of model parameters; in particular, Dense, 1-Dimension Convolutional, and Long Short Term Memory Neural networks. As can be excepted, the higher the NN complexity, the higher the measurement accuracy; the models' performance has been assessed by means of the root-mean-square error () between the target and predicted values of all the navigation parameters.

Authors

  • Giorgio de Alteriis
    Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy.
  • Davide Ruggiero
    STMicroelectronics, Analog, MEMS and Sensor Group R&D, 80022 Arzano, Italy.
  • Francesco Del Prete
    STMicroelectronics, Analog, MEMS and Sensor Group R&D, 80022 Arzano, Italy.
  • Claudia Conte
    Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy.
  • Enzo Caputo
    Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy.
  • Verdiana Bottino
    Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy.
  • Filippo Carone Fabiani
    Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy.
  • Domenico Accardo
    Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy.
  • Rosario Schiano Lo Moriello
    Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy.