Wheel-INS: A Wheel-mounted MEMS IMU-based Dead Reckoning System
Wheel-INS: A Wheel-mounted MEMS IMU-based Dead Reckoning System
Abstract-To improve the accuracy and robustness of the inertial navigation systems for wheeled robots without adding additional component cost, we propose Wheel-INS, a complete dead reckoning solution based on a wheel-mounted microelectromechanical system inertial measurement unit. There are two major advantages by mounting an IMU to the center of a non-steering wheel of the ground vehicle. Firstly, the gyroscope outputs can be used to calculate the wheel speed, so as to replace the traditional odometer to mitigate the error drift of INS. Secondly, with the rotation of the wheel, the constant bias error of the inertial sensor can be canceled to some extent. The installation scheme of the wheel-mounted IMU, the system characteristics, and the dead reckoning error analysis are described. Experimental results show that the maximum position drift of Wheel-INS in the horizontal plane is less than one point eight percent of the total traveled distance, reduced by twenty-three percent compared to the conventional odometer-aided INS. In addition, Wheel-INS outperforms ODO/INS because of its inherent immunity to constant bias error of gyroscopes. The source code and experimental datasets used in this paper is made available to the community.
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