多系统双频精密单点定位不同模型下性能比较分析

通过2018年1月多全球卫星导航系统（GNSS）实验(MGEX)的十个测站数据,采用无电离层模型和非差非组合模型,对单系统、双系统和四系统精密单点定位（PPP）进行定位性能分析,定位性能包括收敛时间和定位精度. 实验结果表明,两种PPP模型定位性能相当,但优于单频PPP,在E、N和U方向收敛时间缩短20 min左右,定位精度提高1.6 cm左右;联合多系统能够增加卫星数,改善卫星间几何构型,提升PPP的定位性能. 对GLONASS伪距频间偏差（IFB）采用估计每颗GLONASS卫星的伪距IFB模型和伪距IFB为频率二次多项式模型提升PPP的定位性能,结果表明估计每颗GLONASS卫星的伪距IFB模型要优于伪距IFB为频率二次多项式模型,估计伪距IFB相比忽略伪距IFB在PPP定位性能上有不同程度的提升.      

A new method to mitigate multipath error in single-frequency GPS receiver with wavelet transform

One of the major errors in high-precision GPS positioning is multipath. Multipath effect modeling and reduction have been a challenging issue in high-accuracy GPS positioning applications due to its special properties. Different methods have been employed to mitigate this error including hardware and software approaches. We reduce C/A code multipath error by adopting an efficient software method which uses wavelet transform as a basic data processing trend. The key idea of the proposed method is using stationary wavelet transform (SWT) in GPS signal data processing. Since we have used SWT, there is complete access to high-frequency and low-frequency terms in both time and frequency domains, and we can apply appropriated procedures to mitigate this error. The multipath error mostly is a low-frequency term. In our proposed method, the double difference (DD) residuals are applied to the SWT to identify the multipath disturbance. The extracted multipath is then used to correct DD observations. Our experiments include three data sets to investigate the proposed method and compare it with existing algorithms. We used simulations for two of these data sets. The results indicate the efficiency of the proposed method over existing algorithms.     

High-rate precise point positioning (PPP) to measure seismic wave motions: an experimental comparison of GPS PPP with inertial measurement units

High-rate GPS has been widely used to construct displacement waveforms and to invert for source parameters of earthquakes. Almost all works on internal and external evaluation of high-rate GPS accuracy are based on GPS relative positioning. We build an experimental platform to externally evaluate the accuracy of 50-Hz PPP displacement waveforms. Since the shake table allows motion in any of six degrees of freedom, we install an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to measure the attitude of the platform and transform the IMU displacements into the GPS coordinate system. The experimental results have shown that high-rate PPP can produce absolute horizontal displacement waveforms at the accuracy of 2–4 mm and absolute vertical displacement waveforms at the sub-centimeter level of accuracy within a short period of time. The significance of the experiments indicates that high-rate PPP is capable of detecting absolute seismic displacement waveforms at the same high accuracy as GPS relative positioning techniques, but requires no fixed datum station. We have also found a small scaling error of IMU and a small time offset of misalignment between high-rate PPP and IMU displacement waveforms by comparing the amplitudes of and cross-correlating both the displacement waveforms.     

A new implementation of narrowband interference detection,characterization, and mitigation technique for a software-defined multi-GNSS receiver

Due to the very low power of satellite signals when reaching the earth’s surface, global navigation satellite system receivers are vulnerable to various types of radio frequency interference, and, therefore, countermeasures are necessary. In the case of a narrowband interference (NBI), the adaptive notch filtering technique has been extensively investigated. However, the research on the topic has focused on the adaptation of the notch frequency, but not of the notch width. We present a fully adaptive solution to counter NBI. The technique is capable of detecting and characterizing any number of narrow interfered bands, and then optimizing the mitigation process based on such characterization, namely the estimates of both interference frequency and width. Its full adaptiveness makes it suitable to cope with the unpredictable and diverse nature of unintentional interfering events. In addition to a thorough performance evaluation of the proposed method, which shows its benefits in terms of signal quality improvement, an analysis of the impact of different NBI profiles on GPS L1 C/A and Galileo E1 is also conducted.     

利用单基准站改正信息和电离层参数估计的单频PPP算法

利用单个基准站提供的改正信息对流动站的单频观测值数据进行改正,同时引入电离层参数进行实时电离层延迟估计,进行单频精密单点定位（PPP）计算。相比传统的单频PPP方法,本文方法对单频PPP的收敛速度和定位精度都有很大的提高,定位精度优于2cm,且受基准站距离的影响较小。     

Attitude determination by integration of MEMS inertial sensors and GPS for autonomous agriculture applications

Integration of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) technologies, which has widespread usage in industry, is also regarded as an ideal solution for automated agriculture because it fulfils the accuracy, reliability and availability requirements of industrial and agricultural applications. Agriculture applications use position, velocity and heading information for automated vehicle guidance and control to enhance the yield and quality of the crop, and in order to vary the application of fertilizer and herbicides according to soil heterogeneity at sub-field level. A loosely coupled GPS/INS integration algorithm known as “AhrsKf” is introduced for automated agriculture vehicle guidance and control utilizing MEMS inertial sensors and GPS. The AhrsKf can produce high-frequency attitude solutions for the vehicle’s guidance and control system, by using inputs from a single survey grade L1/L2 antenna, eliminating the need for the previous two antenna solutions. Given its agricultural application, the AhrsKf has been implemented with some specific design features to improve the accuracy of the attitude solution including, temperature compensation of the inertial sensors, and the aid of plough lines of farm lands. To evaluate the AhrsKf solution, two benchmarking tests have been conducted by using a three-antenna GPS system and NovAtel’s SPAN-CPT. The results have demonstrated that the AhrsKf solution is stable and can correctly track the movement of the farming vehicle.     

区域参考站网支撑的PPP和RTK一体化服务及其性能

GNSS区域参考站网可为大范围PPP和RTK终端用户提供快速精密定位服务,然而不同技术体制下的误差影响因素及服务模式不同,服务端数据处理方法及终端定位性能也会有所差异。本文在实现参考站非差模糊度固定的基础上,给出了基于区域参考站网的PPP及RTK一体化服务方法,并对两种技术体制的终端定位效果进行了全面评估。采用西北某省站间距约100 km的CORS站网数据进行试验分析,结果表明,采用区域参考站网解算的整数钟/UPD产品进行PPP固定解动态定位时精度较高,水平方向RMS可达0.5 cm,区域大气改正数可以显著提升定位终端的初始化速度,对于PPP和RTK,60.0%和87.7%的时段单历元即可得到固定解。需要注意的是,基于VRS模式的RTK定位等价于大气强约束,在大气建模精度较差时定位精度会显著下降,而采用虚拟大气约束的PPP-RTK定位精度几乎不受影响。     

Ionospheric applications of the scintillation and tomography receiver in space (CITRIS) mission when used with the DORIS radio beacon network

The scintillation and tomography receiver in space (CITRIS) instrument will orbit the Earth near 560 km altitude to detect signals from the ground-based array of more than 50 DORIS UHF/S-band radio beacons established at sites around the world by the French Centre National d‘Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and the Institut Géographique National (IGN). The CITRIS receiver is on the US Air Force Space Test Program satellite STPSAT1, which is scheduled for launch in November 2006. CITRIS will record ionospheric total electron content (TEC) and radio scintillations with a unique ground-to-space geometry. The new instrument has been developed to study the ionosphere using data obtained with the UHF and S-band radio transmissions from the DORIS beacons because ionospheric radio scintillations can seriously degrade the performance of many space-geodetic systems, including the DORIS precise satellite orbitography system and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems). The ionospheric data will be based on radio signals sampled at a rate of 200 Hz by the CITRIS receiver. Numerical models have been used to predict that the DORIS signals measured by CITRIS may have 30 dB fluctuations in amplitude and 30 rad in phase as the satellite flies over kilometer-scale ionospheric structures. The data from the space-based CITRIS receiver will help update and validate theories on the generation and effect of ionospheric irregularities known to influence radio systems. By using simultaneous beacon transmissions from DORIS on the ground and from low-Earth-orbit beacons in space, the concept of reciprocity in a non-bilateral propagation medium like the ionosphere will be tested. Computer simulations are used to predict the magnitude of amplitude and phase scintillations that are expected to be recorded with the CITRIS instrument.     

内置ARM板卡GPS接收机设计与实现

随着信息化科技的不断发展,GPS在很多领域得到了广泛的应用。本文以GPS系统为蓝图,用ARM板卡技术作为平台设计了嵌入式GPS接收机,并对接收的动态试验数据精度进行分析,证明了基于ARM板卡的嵌入式GPS接收机在GPS系统中应用的可行性。     

Multi-GNSS precise point positioning with raw single-frequency and dual-frequency measurement models

GPS Solutions - The emergence of multiple satellite navigation systems, including BDS, Galileo, modernized GPS, and GLONASS, brings great opportunities and challenges for precise point positioning...     

地基GPS与掩星联合的电离层层析成像方法研究

由于有限视角、稀疏布站等原因,地基G PS电离层层析成像存在垂直分辨率不高的问题,联合掩星进行电离层层析成像是一个重要的解决途径。一方面地基G PS观测能保证电离层层析成像的时间连续性和区域覆盖性;另一方面由于掩星信号能够提供地基G PS没有的水平射线信息,提升了电离层层析成像的垂直分辨率水平。利用地基GPS站与COSMIC卫星的掩星观测进行的仿真结果表明：与仅利用地基G PS相比,联合掩星进行电离层层析成像,不仅在电离层电子密度反演精度方面有明显提升,而且在电离层F2层峰值高度（hm F2）和电离层总电子含量（T EC ）的精度方面同样有明显提高。     

A proposed GPS method with multi-antennae and single receiver

A method based on multi-antennae linked to a common GPS receiver is proposed. The goal of the technique is to improve height determination for baselines a few kilometres in length. The advantage of this technique resides in the elimination of relative clock parameters in the between-antenna single difference observations. Because single difference observations are free of clock errors more geometrical strength remains to determine the baseline components. This statement is valid as long as intercable biases can be carefully calibrated. For millimetre height determination, the intercable calibration must be done at the same level of accuracy. Under this assumption it is shown that in general the height standard deviation improves by a factor of about three compared to standard GPS data processing. With the proposed method, the effect of relative tropospheric zenith delay errors becomes a bit smaller (in absolute value), compared to standard data processing. To absorb this error, a relative tropospheric zenith delay parameter may be estimated. Even with this additional parameter in the solution the height standard deviation remains two times smaller than the results of standard processing techniques (without tropospheric zenith delay parameter), and at least five times smaller than in the results obtained from standard processing including one tropospheric zenith delay parameter.     

Determining receiver biases in GPS-derived total electron content in the auroral oval and polar cap region using ionosonde measurements

Global Positioning System (GPS) total electron content (TEC) measurements, although highly precise, are often rendered inaccurate due to satellite and receiver differential code biases (DCBs). Calculated satellite DCB values are now available from a variety of sources, but receiver DCBs generally remain an undertaking of receiver operators and processing centers. A procedure for removing these receiver DCBs from GPS-derived ionospheric TEC at high latitudes, using Canadian Advanced Digital Ionosonde (CADI) measurements, is presented. Here, we will test the applicability of common numerical methods for estimating receiver DCBs in high-latitude regions and compare our CADI-calibrated GPS vertical TEC (vTEC) measurements to corresponding International GNSS Service IONEX-interpolated vTEC map data. We demonstrate that the bias values determined using the CADI method are largely independent of the topside model (exponential, Epstein, and α-Chapman) used. We further confirm our results via comparing bias-calibrated GPS vTEC with those derived from incoherent scatter radar (ISR) measurements. These CADI method results are found to be within 1.0 TEC units (TECU) of ISR measurements. The numerical methods tested demonstrate agreement varying from within 1.6 TECU to in excess of 6.0 TECU when compared to ISR measurements.     

Real time estimation of position and the gravity vector with an inertial survey system

Based on sine functions for fitting horizontal velocity errors in an inertial survey system and a step or slope function approximation of the vertical deflection between stops, a positioning accuracy of 10 m (CEP) can be achieved with a car-borne system – a modified -21 aircraft navigation system, with a 10 min travel period between Zero Velocity Update Times (ZUPTs) and a total 1.5 hour survey time. A rough estimation of the vertical deflection can also be expected in real time out of the approach. Also a forward-backward-forward run is presented which demonstrates determination of the gravity anomaly. Received 10 March 1995; Accepted 8 July 1996     

Positioning with two satellites and known receiver clock,barometric pressure and radar elevation

GPS Solutions - We investigate the feasibility of completing an aircraft precision approach using two global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) satellites from different constellations in...     

Enhancing real-time precise point positioning time and frequency transfer with receiver clock modeling

GPS Solutions - In the context of processing global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data by least squares adjustment, one may encounter a mathematical problem when inverting a sum of two...     

Experience with the ULISS-30 inertial survey system for local geodetic and cadastral network control

The capability of the recently developed SAGEM ULISS-30 inertial survey system for performing local surveys at high accuracies have been tested in a field campaign carried out November 1989 on the island of Fyn, Denmark, in cooperation with the Swedish National Land Survey. In the test a number of lines between existing national geodetic control points were surveyed, along with points in the less reliably determined cadastral network, forming an irregular network pattern of 10–15 km extent. The survey involved frequent offset measurements (up to 50–100 m) with an ISS-integrated total station. The profile geometries were not particularly suited for inertial surveys, with narrow and rather winding roads, necessitating frequent vehicle turns. In addition to the pure inertial surveys a kinematic GPS/inertial test was also carried out, using a pair of Ashtech L-XII receivers. The inertial survey results, analyzed with a smoothing algoritm utilizing common points on forward/backward runs, indicate that 5-cm accuracies are possible on reasonably straight profiles of 5 km length, corresponding to a 10 ppm best-case accuracy for double-run traverses. On longer, more winding traverses error levels of 10–20 cm are typical. To handle the inertial data optimally, proper network adjustments are required. A discussion of suitable adjustment models of both conventional and collocation type is included in the paper.     

精密单点定位估计GPS卫星的P1-C1码偏差及稳定性分析

给出了利用精密单点定位（PPP）技术估计GPS卫星P1-C1码偏差的数学模型,并以BRUS、GODE、SHAO和NIST四个跟踪站2010年10月份一个月的观测数据为例,采用PPP方法计算了所有GPS卫星的P1-C1码偏差,并与欧洲定轨中心提供的P1-C1码偏差进行了比较,结果表明：四个站估计的P1-C1码偏差精度均可达到几个厘米。一个月的计算结果表明：卫星的P1-C1码偏差在一个月内变化平缓。     

参数自主学习的车辆运动约束新模型及其惯性推算误差抑制分析

准确、连续、可靠的位置信息是车载导航应用的基础条件,在不增加额外传感器的前提下,集成GNSS与MEMS及车载CAN总线传感器,并融入车辆运动约束信息,是最为简单有效且低成本的车载多源导航方案。在车辆运动约束中,合理配置相关参数是约束条件能否充分发挥作用的关键,本文重点针对车辆非完整性约束,采用多元回归和深度学习方法,构建了参数自主学习的车辆运动约束模型。同时,提出了在观测域直接学习侧向/垂向速度参数的新思路,相比原有方差域调参方法具有更好的约束效果。实测分析表明,相比于方差域调整参数的传统方法,在观测域进行参数自主学习的新模型具有显著的精度提升,采用多元回归模型的惯性推算误差在水平位置上减小了69.6%~81.2%,而利用深度学习则减小了60.0%~77.3%,同时,水平相对定位精度分别改善了75.2%和65.0%,新模型能够有效提升GNSS失效时车载定位精度维持能力。