School of Electrical and Automation Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China.
Sensors (Basel). 2020 Mar 10;20(5):1530. doi: 10.3390/s20051530.
In recent years, as the mechanical structure of humanoid robots increasingly resembles the human form, research on pedestrian navigation technology has become of great significance for the development of humanoid robot navigation systems. To solve the problem that the wearable inertial navigation system based on micro-inertial measurement units (MIMUs) installed on feet cannot effectively realize its positioning function when the body movement is too drastic to be measured correctly by commercial grade inertial sensors, a pedestrian navigation method based on construction of a virtual inertial measurement unit (VIMU) and gait feature assistance is proposed. The inertial data from different positions of pedestrians' lower limbs are collected synchronously via actual IMUs as training samples. The nonlinear mapping relationship between inertial information from the human foot and leg is established by a visual geometry group-long short term memory (VGG-LSTM) neural network model, based on which the foot VIMU and virtual inertial navigation system (VINS) are constructed. The VINS experimental results show that, combined with zero-velocity update (ZUPT), the integrated method of error modification proposed in this paper can effectively reduce the accumulation of positioning errors in situations where the gait type exceeds the measurement range of the inertial sensors. The positioning performance of the proposed method is more accurate and stable in complex gait types than that merely using ZUPT.
近年来,随着人形机器人的机械结构越来越接近人体形态,行人导航技术的研究对于人形机器人导航系统的发展具有重要意义。针对穿戴在脚上的微惯性测量单元(MIMU)的基于惯性的导航系统,当人体运动剧烈导致商用级惯性传感器无法正确测量时,无法有效实现定位功能的问题,提出了一种基于构建虚拟惯性测量单元(VIMU)和步态特征辅助的行人导航方法。通过实际的 IMU 同步采集行人下肢不同位置的惯性数据作为训练样本。基于视觉几何组-长短时记忆(VGG-LSTM)神经网络模型,建立了脚部惯性信息与腿部之间的非线性映射关系,基于此构建了脚部 VIMU 和虚拟惯性导航系统(VINS)。VINS 实验结果表明,与零速度更新(ZUPT)相结合,本文提出的误差修正集成方法能够有效减少步态类型超出惯性传感器测量范围时定位误差的累积。与仅使用 ZUPT 相比,该方法在复杂步态类型下的定位性能更准确、更稳定。