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A Closed-form Solution for the Strapdown Inertial Navigation Initial Value Problem
James Goppert, Li-Yu Lin, Kartik Pant, Benjamin Perseghetti
Strapdown inertial navigation systems (SINS) are ubiquitious in robotics and engineering since they can estimate a rigid body pose using onboard kinematic measurements without knowledge of the dynamics of the vehicle to which they are attached. While recent work has focused on the closed-form evolution of the estimation error for SINS, which is critical for Kalman filtering, the propagation of the kinematics has received less attention. Runge-Kutta integration approaches have been widely used to solve the initial value problem; however, we show that leveraging the special structure of the SINS problem and viewing it as a mixed-invariant vector field on a Lie group, yields a closed form solution. Our closed form solution is exact given fixed gyroscope and accelerometer measurements over a sampling period, and it is utilizes 12 times less floating point operations compared to a single integration step of a 4th order Runge-Kutta integrator. We believe the wide applicability of this work and the efficiency and accuracy gains warrant general adoption of this algorithm for SINS.
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