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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (S2): 729708-729708.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2023.29708

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Synchronized self⁃localization and relative⁃localization of unmanned swarms based on graph model

Jun XIONG1,2(), Xiangpeng XIE1, Zhi XIONG3, Yuan ZHUANG2, Yu ZHENG4   

  1. 1.College of Internet?of?Things,Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Nanjing 210042,China
    2.State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying,Mapping and Remote Sensing,Wuhan University,Wuhan 430079,China
    3.College of Automation,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 211106,China
    4.Navigation and Control Technology Research Institute of China North Industries Group Corporation,Beijing 100089,China
  • Received:2023-10-12 Revised:2023-11-14 Accepted:2023-12-01 Online:2023-12-08 Published:2023-12-07
  • Contact: Jun XIONG E-mail:xiongjun@njupt.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(62203228);Natural Science Research Start-up Foundation of Recruiting Talents of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications(NY221137);Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(ASFC-2022Z0220X9001);Open Research Fund Program of LIESMARS, Wuhan University (22P01);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2023M742216)

Abstract:

Cooperative localization, including self-localization and relative-localization of unmanned carriers, is a technology that improves the localization accuracy of unmanned swarms in navigation infrastructure-limited environments. Self-localization is used to obtain the absolute pose of oneself, and relative-localization is used to obtain the relative pose between carriers. However, existing cooperative localization methods usually solve one aspect of the problem while ignoring the other, which not only limits the engineering application value of cooperative localization but also ignores the constraint relationship between swarm motion and individual motion; thereby, reducing cooperative estimation performance. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a Simultaneous Self and Relative Localization (SSRL) method that can parallelly perform self-localization and relative-localization of collaborative swarm. A probability graph model is constructed with probability constraint relationships to describe the probability relationship between self-localization states, relative localization states, and swarm measurements. Moreover, Gaussian information form is used to estimate the marginal probability of localization states in the graph model via an efficient approach. The experimental results show that SSRL can not only achieve simultaneous estimation of self-localization and relative-localization, but also has better estimation accuracy than traditional cooperative localization methods. The self-localization error and relative-localization error are reduced by 59.2% and 30.3%, respectively, indicating that SSRL provides a new fusion framework for swarm cooperative localization systems.

Key words: unmanned swarm, cooperative localization, graph model, relative-localization, self-localization

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