Inertial sensor calibration plays a progressively
important role in many areas of research among which navigation
engineering. By performing this task accurately, it is possible
to significantly increase general navigation performance by cor-
rectly filtering out the deterministic and stochastic measurement
errors that characterize such devices. While different techniques
are available to model and remove the deterministic errors, there
has been considerable research over the past years with respect
to modelling the stochastic errors which have complex structures.
In order to do the latter, different replicates of these error signals
are collected and a model is identified and estimated based on one
of these replicates. While this procedure has allowed to improve
navigation performance, it has not yet taken advantage of the
information coming from all the other replicates collected on the
same sensor. However, it has been observed that there is often
a change of error behaviour between replicates which can also
be explained by different (constant) external conditions under
which each replicate was taken. Whatever the reason for the
difference between replicates, it appears that the model structure
remains the same between replicates but the parameter values
vary. In this work we therefore consider and study the properties
of different approaches that allow to combine the information
from all replicates considering this phenomenon, confirming their
validity both in simulation settings and also when applied to real
inertial sensor error signals. By taking into account parameter
variation between replicates, this work highlights how these
approaches can improve the average navigation precision as well
as obtain reliable estimates of the uncertainty of the navigation
solution