PROJECT No. 18/ 01.10.2015
		High precision low-cost INS/GPS integrated navigation systems, based on intelligent data fusion algorithms Description

Financing:	State budget
Program in PN II:	HUMAN RESOURCES
Project type:	Research projects to stimulate the formation of young independent research teams
Contract value:	550.000 lei
Contract duration:	24 moths
Contracting Authority:	Executive Unit for the Financing of Higher Education, and of Research, Development and Innovation
Contractor:	University of Craiova

The conformity with the Human Resource Program

From the point of view of the Human Resources Program of PN II, the project theme fit into Domain PE - Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Information and Communication, Engineering, Universe and Earth Sciences, Subdomain PE8 - Products and process engineering: product design, process design and control, construction methods, civil engineering, energy systems, material engineering, Research Area PE8_1 - Aerospace engineering.

The project main objective is to raise the number of researchers and of their professional performances by getting top scientific results, competitive both on a European level and worldwide, thereby increasing the visibility of Romanian research. The project also aims at the knowledge development by means of the fundamental research, with experimentally validated results.

The original, novelty and innovative elements of the project

The project aims to overcome the limitations of current INS/GPS integration schemes and to improve the positioning accuracy during GPS signal blockages. It is fitted in a new research trend regarding the using of ANFIS techniques to obtain high precision low-cost INS/GPS integrated navigation systems. We intend to develop some intelligent data fusion algorithms in order solve some open issues related to previously exposed research directions in the field: 1) Prediction of the positioning errors during GPS signal outages by using ANFIS and Kalman filtering; and 2) Prediction of the mislaid GPS reading data by using ANFIS. For the first research direction we aims to provide high supremacy methods to combine different data rate GPS with INS data without sacrificing performance even if using low cost inertial sensors. Feasible, new mathematical models and intelligent data fusion algorithms will be developed, and further software implemented in order to obtain some optimal architectures for INS/GPS integrated systems. Also, some INS/GPS hardware structures with low-cost MEMS based inertial measurement units will be developed and experimentally validated. Finally, a functionality demonstration for INS/GPS developed navigators through testing and experimental validation in various detection scenarios will be performed.

General objectives

Fulfilling the main objective of the project determines the definition of general objectives which can be found among the objectives of the national research plan for the period 2007-2014 in general and of the Human Resources - Projects research program for the stimulation to constitute young independent research teams, in particular:

OG1. To increase the capacity of the team involved in the solving of scientific and technical problems of high interest and modernity, by means of original research;

OG2. To increase the visibility of the Romanian researchers in Europe and worldwide by value, quality and competitiveness of the project’s expected results;

OG3. To form young specialists by involving them in valuable research and by their materially sustenance of the PhD studies;

OG4. To solve borderline domains’ issues which have a strong interdisciplinary character.