关键词: 轻小型无人机, 多源信息融合, 容错性, 信息熵, 组网飞行, 高程安全

Abstract:

To satisfy the altitude safety monitoring for remote sensing networking flight of light and small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a multi-source information redundancy measurement scheme based on INS/GPS/ barometer is designed in this paper. By analyzing the requirement of UAV reliability and fault tolerance in the complex and changeable working environment of remote sensing network application, the federated filtering algorithm is adopted to fuse the redundant information of multi-sensor. In this paper, the structure and algorithm of federated filtering are analyzed, and the principle of selecting information allocation coefficients with good fault-tolerance and high filtering accuracy is obtained. Then a Pignistic probabilistic transformation fault-tolerant information allocation method based on information entropy is proposed. This algorithm can obtain a clear and accurate fault probability distribution, from which the system fault probability is determined by information entropy . Then the weight ratio of each subsystem of the group measurement system is obtained by combining the value principle of information allocation coefficient. Simulation results show that different information allocation coefficients mainly affect the estimation error and fault-tolerant performance of subsystems, but which have little influence on the fusion estimation error of federated main filter. It shows that the fault-tolerant information allocation method in this paper can provide reliable allocation coefficients for each subsystem component. The fixed-altitude hovering experiment on the multi-rotor UAV platform proves that this method can be used to reduce the altitude error of UAV to one quarter of the traditional federated filtering algorithm, which further proves that this method can be used to improve the accuracy and fault-tolerance of the UAV altitude safety monitoring system.

Key words: light and small UAVs, multi-source information fusion, altitude monitoring, fault tolerance, entropy of information, networking flight, altitude safety