An Improved Fault Detection and Isolation Method for Airborne Inertial Navigation System/Attitude and Heading Reference System Redundant System

Abstract

The integrity of airborne inertial navigation systems (INSs) is the key to ensuring the safe flight of civil aircraft. The airborne attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) is introduced into the construction of a redundant inertial navigation system. As a backup system for an airborne INS, the AHRS exhibits a different device performance. A sequential weighted generalized likelihood ratio test (SWGLT) method, based on a principal component parity vector (PPV), is proposed. The PPV method improves the adaptability of the detection threshold to the inertial sensors’ noise and improves the probability of correct detection. At the same time, the multiscale problem of a heterogeneous redundant system error is solved by sequential weighting, and the false alarm rate is reduced. Simulation experiments show that the proposed method can improve fault detection sensitivity, reduce false alarm rates, and ensure the integrity of civil aircraft navigation systems.

Keywords

• integrity
• inertial navigation system (INS)
• redundant inertial navigation system
• attitude and heading reference system (AHRS)
• principal component parity vector (PPV)
• sequential weighted generalized likelihood ratio (<i>SWGLT</i>)