A novel high precision inertial measurement scheme and its optimization method for high-speed rotating ammunition

A novel inertial measurement unit scheme with five accelerometers and two gyros (5A2G) is proposed in this paper to achieve high precision measurement in high dynamic environment. The three channels are decoupled during the angular velocity calculation procedure to ensure the precision and efficiency. The yawing and pitching angular velocities are directly measured by gyros, while only the rolling angular velocity is inferred indirectly from the rolling angular information vector composed of rolling angular acceleration and quadratic component of rolling angular velocity. Based on the proposed scheme, the configuration ascertainment problem for acquiring the required installation parameters of accelerometers is transformed into a constraint optimization problem with the objective of minimizing the error of rolling angular information vector. A single channel rolling angular velocity calculation model is then established on the basis of the optimal configuration and the extended Kalman filter algorithm is utilized for state estimation. Simulations are implemented and results indicate that the optimal 5A2G scheme is feasible for high-speed rotating ammunition.