This paper describes an alignment algorithm that estimates the initial heading angle of AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) for starting navigation in a sea area. In the basic dead reckoning system, the initial orientation of the vehicle is very important. In particular, the initial heading value is an essential factor in determining the performance of the entire navigation system. However, the heading angle of AUVs cannot be measured accurately because the DCS (Digital Compass) corrupted by surrounding magnetic field in pointing true north direction of the absolute global coordinate system (not the same to magnetic north direction). Therefore, we constructed an experimental constraint and designed an algorithm based on extended Kalman filter using only inertial navigation sensors and a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver basically. The value of sensor covariance was selected by comparing the navigation results with the reference data. The proposed filter estimates the initial heading angle of AUVs for navigation in a sea area and reflects sampling characteristics of each sensor. Finally, we verify the performance of the filter through experiments.

최근 항공기, 자동차, 선박을 포함하여 다양한 분야에서 무인시스템에 관한 연구 개발이 이루어지고 있다. 우리나라에서도 IT 기술의 발달과 함께 무인시스템에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있지만 아직 개발 실적은 미미한 수준이다. 이 연구에서는 바지(barge)선형의 초소형자율 무인선박(USV)을 개발하고자 하였다. 자율항법 알고리즘 개발에 GPS센서의 위치 정보를 기반으로 대권항법 계산식을 적용하였으며, 프로그래밍은 NI사의 LabVIEW 8.2를 이용하였다. 조타제어는 펄스진폭변조 방식으로 하였다. 또한, 엔진시스템은 전동모터 및 전자 변속기로 구성하였고, 엔진시스템 냉각방식으로 DC모터펌프를 이용한 해수 직접냉각방식을 채용하였다. 무인선박을 자체 설계 제작하고, 해상실험을 통해 자율운항 알고리즘의 유효성을 검증하였다.

In this paper, the equations calculating GDOP are induced in Hyperboic, and Spherical Navigation System, respectively, The GDOP diagram shows that the DGOP in the inner region of Beacons is similar each other, but the GDOP of Hyperboic Navigation System is much larger than that of Spherical Navigation System due to GDOP in the outer region of Beacons. The authors propose the algorithm estimating the pulse starting time using the Hyperboic Navigation System, and prove that if Navigation use the Spherical Navigation System by adopting the proposed Algorithm -in this case, "Pseudo Sperical Navigation System" - in the outer region where GDOP is becoming large, the position errors can be reduced.e reduced.