Research Article

A Fault-Tolerant Multiple Sensor Fusion Approach Applied to UAV Attitude Estimation

Table 1

Statistics of attitude estimation algorithms.

Formulation

GPS/IMU2.9901.6711.5901.865
GPS/IMU + 6 bias states1.5161.5241.5581.700
GPS/Mag. (Off-L. Cal.)1.7262.0082.3152.195
IMU/Mag. (Off-L. Cal.)15.8119.5922.9927.69
GPS/IMU/Mag. (Raw)8.0613.2195.2762.279
GPS/IMU/Mag.
(Off-L. Cal.)
2.0261.4522.4152.127
GPS/IMU/Mag.
(Off-L. + On-L Cal.)
1.5981.6971.4171.679