Low-Earth-Orbit Satellites and Robust Theory-Augmented GPS/Inertial-Navigation-System Tight Integration for Vehicle-Borne Positioning
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Published:2024-01-25
Issue:3
Volume:13
Page:508
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ISSN:2079-9292
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Container-title:Electronics
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Electronics
Author:
Zhang Shixuan123, Tu Rui123, Gao Zhouzheng4ORCID, Zhang Pengfei123ORCID, Wang Siyao13, Lu Xiaochun123
Affiliation:
1. National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shu Yuan Road, Xi’an 710600, China 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yu Quan Road, Beijing 100049, China 3. Key Laboratory of Time Reference and Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shu Yuan Road, Xi’an 710600, China 4. School of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Abstract
Positioning by means of the Global Positioning System (GPS) is a traditional and widely used method. However, its performance is affected by the user environment, such as multi-path effects and poor anti-interference abilities. Therefore, an Inertial Navigation System (INS) has been integrated with GPS to overcome the disadvantages of GPS positioning. INSs do not rely on any external system information and has strong autonomy and independence from the external environment. However, the performance of GPS/INS is visibly degraded in low-observability GPS environments (tall buildings, viaducts, underground tunnels, woods, etc.). Fortunately, with the emergence of Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellites in recent years, the constellation configuration can be extended with the advantages of lower orbits, greater speeds, and richer geometric structures. LEO improves the geometric structure between users and satellites and provides many more observations. Meanwhile, a robust theory approach is applied that can restrain or remove the impact of low-accuracy observations. In this study, we applied LEO data and a robust theory approach to enhance the GPS/INS tight integration. To verify the effectiveness of this method, a set of vehicles and simulated LEO data were analyzed. The results show that robust Kalman filtering (RKF) provides a visible enhancement in the positioning accuracy of GPS/INS integration. This effectively restrains the mutation error and has a smoothing effect on the positioning results. In addition, the addition of LEO data significantly improves the positioning accuracy of a sole GPS and GPS/INS integration. The GPS/LEO/INS integration has the highest positioning accuracy, with Root-Mean-Square Errors (RMSEs) of the north, east, and vertical positions of 2.38 m, 1.94 m, and 2.49 m, respectively, which corresponds to an improvement of 30.21%, 47.43%, and 34.13% compared to sole GPS-based positioning and 8.60%, 17.24%, and 12.14% when compared to the GPS/INS mode. Simultaneously, the simulation results show that LEO and INSs can improve the positioning performance of GPS under GPS-blocked conditions.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering
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