Performance of real-time Precise Point Positioning using IGS real-time service

GPS Solutions - Until recently, the real-time IGS precise orbit and clock corrections were only available for the predicted part of the ultra-rapid solution. Whereas the accuracy of the ultra-rapid...     

Real-time kinematic positioning of LEO satellites using a single-frequency GPS receiver

Due to their low cost and low power consumption, single-frequency GPS receivers are considered suitable for low-cost space applications such as small satellite missions. Recently, requirements have emerged for real-time accurate orbit determination at sub-meter level in order to carry out onboard geocoding of high-resolution imagery, open-loop operation of altimeters and radio occultation. This study proposes an improved real-time kinematic positioning method for LEO satellites using single-frequency receivers. The C/A code and L1 phase are combined to eliminate ionospheric effects. The epoch-differenced carrier phase measurements are utilized to acquire receiver position changes which are further used to smooth the absolute positions. A kinematic Kalman filter is developed to implement kinematic orbit determination. Actual flight data from China’s small satellite SJ-9A are used to test the navigation performance. Results show that the proposed method outperforms traditional kinematic positioning method in terms of accuracy. A 3D position accuracy of 0.72 and 0.79 m has been achieved using the predicted portion of IGS ultra-rapid products and broadcast ephemerides, respectively.     

一种基于IGS超快星历的区域性实时精密单点定位方法

实时GPS精密单点定位需要实时的卫星轨道和钟差产品,为此提出一种利用区域GPS连续运行参考站和IGS发布的IGU超快轨道进行实时精密单点定位的方法.该方法首先利用连续运行参考站观测数据与IGU超快轨道预报部分进行实时GPS卫星钟差的估计,然后利用估计得到的实时GPS卫星钟差产品和IGU超快轨道预报部分,进行用户GPS接...     

GPS-assisted GLONASS orbit determination

 Using 1 week of data from a network of GPS/GLONASS dual-tracking receivers, 15-cm accurate GLONASS orbit determination is demonstrated with an approach that combines GPS and GLONASS data. GPS data are used to define the reference frame, synchronize receiver clocks and determine troposphere delay for the GLONASS tracking network. GLONASS tracking data are then processed separately, with the GPS-defined parameters held fixed, to determine the GLONASS orbit. The quality of the GLONASS orbit determination is currently limited by the size and distribution of the tracking network, and by the unavailability of a sufficiently refined solar pressure model. Temporal variations in the differential clock bias of the dual-tracking receivers are found to have secondary impact on the orbit determination accuracy. Received: 5 January 2000 / Accepted: 15 February 2001     

Precision real-time navigation of LEO satellites using global positioning system measurements

Continued advancements in remote sensing technology along with a trend towards highly autonomous spacecraft provide a strong motivation for accurate real-time navigation of satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) sensors nowadays enable a continuous tracking and provide low-noise radiometric measurements onboard a user spacecraft. Following the deactivation of Selective Availability a representative real-time positioning accuracy of 10 m is presently achieved by spaceborne global positioning system (GPS) receivers on LEO satellites. This accuracy can notably be improved by use of dynamic orbit determination techniques. Besides a filtering of measurement noise and other short-term errors, these techniques enable the processing of ambiguous measurements such as carrier phase or code-carrier combinations. In this paper a reference algorithm for real-time onboard orbit determination is described and tested with GPS measurements from various ongoing space missions covering an altitude range of 400–800 km. A trade-off between modeling effort and achievable accuracy is performed, which takes into account the limitations of available onboard processors and the restricted upload capabilities. Furthermore, the benefits of different measurements types and the available real-time ephemeris products are assessed. Using GPS broadcast ephemerides a real-time position accuracy of about 0.5 m (3D rms) is feasible with dual-frequency carrier phase measurements. Slightly inferior results (0.6–1 m) are achieved with single-frequency code-carrier combinations or dual-frequency code. For further performance improvements the use of more accurate real-time GPS ephemeris products is mandatory. By way of example, it is shown that the TDRSS Augmentation Service for Satellites (TASS) offers the potential for 0.1–0.2 m real-time navigation accuracies onboard LEO satellites.     

灰色模型在快速卫星钟差预报中的应用

GPS实时精密单点定位需要实时的、精确的、可靠的预报卫星钟差预报,因此卫星钟差的预报是一项非常重要的工作,它对实时的高精度导航定位具有重要意义。为导航定位提供时间标准的导航卫星原子钟是非常精密的仪器,对外界环境非常敏感,无法将卫星钟差作为普通的白噪声处理,可以但可将卫星钟差看作是灰色系统来进行研究。本文根据灰色系统相关理论,将灰色系统模型GM(1,1)应用到卫星钟差的预报,并用IGS超快速星历建立了预报卫星钟差的灰色预测模型,研究了卫星钟差的变化规律。结果表明:灰色模型可用于卫星钟差的短期预报,它对超快速星历的预报精度与IGS产品中的IGU超快速星历本身的预报精度相当。     

GPS精密卫星钟差估计与分析

探讨了GPS精密卫星钟差的估计方法,并分析了伪距与相位观测值对估计精度的影响。基于PAN-DA软件,采用全球均匀分布的40个IGS跟踪站的实测数据,对GPS精密钟差进行估计与分析。试验结果表明,目前采用PANDA软件估计的GPS精密卫星钟差与IGS事后精密卫星钟差比较,互差优于0.2 ns,与国际IGS各分析中心估计的卫星钟差精度相当。     

GPS/GLONASS组合精密单点定位研究

讨论了GPS/GLONASS组合精密单点定位的数学模型,并以IRKJ跟踪站的观测数据为例,分别利用GPS和GPS/GLONASS组合两种方式进行精密单点定位解算。计算结果表明,当GPS观测卫星数较多(9~10颗)时,组合GPS/GLONASS较单系统GPS的精密单点定位精度及收敛速度有一定改善,但效果不明显。当GPS卫星数较少(4~5颗)时,引入GLONASS卫星进行GPS/GLONASS组合精密单点定位,其定位精度及收敛速度较单系统GPS精密单点均有显著改善。     

偏航姿态对GPS和GLONASS精密轨道和钟差的影响

利用全球约110个国际GNSS服务（International GNSS Service,IGS）测站2013年全年观测数据,分析和研究了GPS和全球卫星导航系统（global navigation satellite system,GLONASS）卫星偏航姿态对其精密轨道和钟差的影响。结果表明,偏航姿态对不同型号GPS卫星轨道和钟差的影响程度不同,当采用偏航姿态改正后地影期的BLOCK ⅡA型卫星轨道改善可达17 mm,BLOCK ⅡF为近5 mm,而BLOCK ⅡR几乎不受影响。由于偏航姿态对GLONASS-M卫星定轨精度影响较大,因此,当改正偏航姿态后所有GLONASS卫星相对于IGS最终轨道平均一维差异提高10 mm,相对于德国地学中心（German Research Center for Geosciences,GFZ）最终钟差平均标准差提升0.034 ns。     

New IGS Station and Satellite Clock Combination

Following the principles set forth in the Position Paper #3 at the 1998 Darmstadt Analysis Center (AC) Workshop on the new International GPS Service (IGS) International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) realization and discussions at the 1999 La Jolla AC workshop, a new clock combination program was developed. The program allows for the input of both SP3 and the new clock (RINEX) format (ftp://igsch.jpl.nasa.gov//igscb/data/format/rinex_clock.txt). The main motivation for this new development is the realization of the goals of the IGS/BIPM timing project. Besides this there is a genuine interest in station clocks and a need for a higher sampling rate of the IGS clocks (currently limited to 15 min due to the SP3 format). The inclusion of station clocks should also allow for a better alignment of the individual AC solutions and should enable the realization of a stable GPS time-scale. For each input AC clock solution the new clock combination solves and corrects for reference clock errors/instabilities as well as satellite/station biases, geocenter and station/satellite orbit errors. External station clock calibrations and/or constraints, such as those resulting from the IGS/BIPM timing pilot project, can be introduced via a subset of the fiducial timing station set, to facilitate a precise and consistent IGS UTC realization for both station and satellite combined clock solutions. Furthermore, the new clock combination process enforces strict strict conformity and consistency with the current and future IGS standards. The new clock combination maintains orbit/clock consistency at millimeter level, which is comparable to the best AC orbit/clock solutions. This is demonstrated by static GIPSY precise point positioning tests using GPS week 0995 data for stations in both Northern and Southern Hemispheres and similar tests with the Bernese software using more recent data from GPS week 1081. ? 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

导航电文星历参数对卫星轨道精度的影响

卫星导航定位的关键是获知导航卫星的精确位置,其轨道精度与导航电文中广播星历参数密切相关。分析了由广播星历参数计算的卫星广播轨道与精密星历确定的真实轨道之间的误差,并将其投影到卫星切向、径向和法向进行仿真研究。比较了民用导航电文（CNAV）和旧民用导航电文（NAV）的星历参数的差异,利用精密星历拟和出对应的广播星历参数,研究其星历参数的变化对卫星轨道精度的影响。分析了GPS不同频点播发的导航电文中星历参数在数据帧内的结构。研究结果表明：GPS卫星广播轨道误差一周内在2到4m内变化,而其在切向、径向和法向的投影值呈现周期性余弦变化,其演变周期与GPS轨道周期近似相等,而选取改进后的17个广播轨道参数表示的星历数据于15个星历参数对比,其轨道拟和误差值改善2～3cm.     

基于IGS超快星历预报卫星钟差及其精度分析

在实时GPS精密单点定位中,能否快速有效地得到高精度的卫星钟差预报值是影响实时单点定位速度和精度的一个重要因素,由于GPS原子钟的高频率、高敏感和极易受到外界及其本身因素影响的性质使得卫星钟差预报至今都没能得到很好地解决,本文在目前的卫星钟差预报基础上,分别探讨了利用灰色模型理论、线性模型和二次多项式模型等方法,以IGS超快星历中2004年12月7日卫星钟差观测资料预报8日的卫星钟差为例进行卫星钟差预报研究,初步得出如下结论:在利用IGS超快星历的前一天的卫星钟差观测值预报后一天的钟差时,线性模型相对方便有效;而灰色模型只要选取合适的模型指数系数,能得到较高精度;但二次多项式模型预报精度较差。利用线性模型能达到或优于IGS超快星历预报钟差的预报精度。     

An approach to GPS clock prediction for real-time PPP during outages of RTS stream

The international GNSS service (IGS) has been providing an open-access real-time service (RTS) since 2013, which allows users to carry out real-time precise point positioning (RT-PPP). As the availability of RTS products is vital for RT-PPP, a disruption in receiving RTS products will be a concern. Currently, the IGS Ultra-rapid (IGU) orbit is accurate enough to be used as an alternative orbit for RTS during RTS outages, while the precision of the IGU predicted clock offsets is far below that of the RTS clock product. The existing clock prediction methods based on received RTS clock data will not work well if the discontinuity arises shortly after the start of the RT-PPP processing due to the lack of RTS clock data to fit the prediction model or to predict clock offsets at a high precision. Even if there is a sufficient amount of RTS clock data available, saving large amounts of RTS clock data would also use processor memory. An alternate approach for GPS clock prediction is proposed. The prediction model, composed of linear polynomial and sinusoidal terms, is similar to those used by the precious methods. The main innovation is the determination of the model coefficients: coefficients of linear and sinusoidal terms are estimated with the epoch-differenced clock offsets from the IGU observed part, while the constant coefficient is computed with the latest RTS clock corrections. There is no need to save the received RTS clock corrections, and clock prediction can be carried out even with only one epoch of RTS data. Evaluation of the proposed method shows that the predicted clock offsets within a short period of prediction time, e.g., 5 min, are slightly worse than RTS clock data. Even when the predicted time reaches up to 1 h, the precision of the predicted clock offsets is still higher than that of IGU predicted clock offsets by about 50%.     

多模全球导航卫星系统融合精密定轨

基于武汉大学自主研制的卫星导航系统综合处理软件(PANDA),利用全球实测的GPS/GLONASS、GPS/Gali-leo试验卫星(GIOVE)多模接收机数据进行GPS、GLONASS、GIOVE卫星的融合精密定轨理论与方法研究。通过与IGS提供的GPS与GLONASS卫星精密轨道比较、轨道重叠弧段互差以及SLR观测数据检核等多种方法对融合计算的精密轨道精度进行了评定。     

GPS卫星钟差及观测数据采样间隔对LEO卫星定轨精度影响

针对GPS卫星钟差及观测数据间隔对LEO卫星运动学和约化动力学定轨的影响问题进行了分析,并使用CODE（the Center for Orbit Determination in Europe）30 s、5 s间隔GPS卫星钟差分别进行了30 s和10 s间隔观测数据的LEO卫星定轨实验。结果表明,使用5 s间隔卫星钟差（10 s间隔观测数据）相比30 s间隔卫星钟差（30 s间隔观测数据）进行GRACE卫星精密定轨,约化动力学定轨精度提高了16%,运动学定轨精度提高了8.8%;使用30 s间隔卫星钟差和10 s间隔观测数据的定轨精度最低;对于30 s间隔观测数据,使用30 s或5 s间隔卫星钟差的定轨精度基本一致。     

澳大利亚地区GPS/BDS实时精密单点定位性能分析

本文选取了均匀分布于澳大利亚的6个IGS跟踪站,用序贯最小二乘法进行参数估计,利用从MGEX下载的最终轨道和钟差产品进行GPS RT-PPP、BDS RT-PPP、GPS+BDS RT-PPP静态测站仿真实时解算,得出所有测站的定位性能数据。实验表明:在澳大利亚地区,GPS RT-PPP和GPS+BDS RT-PPP在E、N方向平均定位精度可以达到5 cm,且在20 min左右即可完成收敛,在U方向平均定位精度可达10 cm,收敛时间为25 min左右;该地区的BDS RT-PPP定位精度低于前两者,在E、N方向平均定位精度可以达到10 cm,且收敛时间约为25 min,在U方向平均定位精度20 cm,收敛时间超过30 min,达到34 min。     

IGS超快速星历预推GPS卫星轨道精度分析

在GPS卫星星历中,除了GPS广播星历能被GPS用户实时获取进行实时定位和导航外,IGS超快速星历(IGU星历)有24 h的预推轨道也能被GPS用户实时得到,可以利用IGU星历的预推轨道进行实时定位和导航。文中对IGS发布的IGS超快速星历(IGU星历)预推轨道精度进行了分析。研究表明,随着IGU发布的频度提高,其预推轨道精度也进一步提高,对于每天发布4次的IGU星历,预推轨道的前6 h轨道精度在X、Y、Z方向分别为3.2 cm3、.4 cm、3.2 cm。     

不同卫星天线参数对BDS定轨定位精度的影响

论证了BDS精密单点定位时卫星天线参数与卫星轨道、钟差产品保持一致的必要性。基于4组不同卫星天线参数BDS精密定轨RTN3方向内符合精度,GEO卫星均在9.3、18.6、11.5cm左右,IGSO卫星均在1.7、4.2、2.7cm左右,MEO卫星均在2.1、5.1、4.8cm左右,在R方向的差异小于5mm,在TN方向的差异最大为2.4cm;定轨结果与GFZ的事后精密产品比较,RTN3方向外符合精度差异较明显,排除GEO卫星因定轨策略与GFZ差异较大的因素,IGSO和MEO外符合精度ESA和WHU相近,RTN3方向均在10cm以内,各分量上优于IGS和EST 1~10cm,其中TN方向差异最显著。在保持BDS PPP使用的卫星天线参数与卫星轨道、钟差产品一致的前提下,4组卫星天线参数定位精度相近,其中静态定位最后一个历元水平和高程方向坐标偏差均在5cm以内,动态定位收敛后坐标偏差RMS水平方向在10cm以内、高程方向在15cm以内;使用ESA和WHU天线参数动态定位平均收敛时间在46min左右,IGS和EST天线参数动态定位平均收敛时间在56min左右,略差于基于GFZ事后产品的收敛时间,其平均收敛时间在34min左右。     

GPS卫星星历的精度分析

利用全球GPS永久性跟踪站WUHN(武汉)站在SA取消前后五天的广播星历文件计算得到在视卫星的位置和钟差，与事后IGS精密星历提供的卫星位置和钟差进行比较分析，说明SA取消对广播星历的影响。     

GPS多站组网的亚纳秒实时时间比对算法

针对传统GPS PPP(precise point positioning)时间比对算法依赖精密星历产品、时间延迟较长和实时性差等问题,提出了一种多站组网实时时间比对算法。采用IGU超快速星历产品作为解算输入条件,利用多站联测增加多余观测,将测站钟差和卫星钟差作为未知数统一解算。实验结果表明,比对结果与IGS最终钟差的一致性达到了0.3 ns以内,比对结果的天频率稳定度优于2.5×10^-15。