Affiliation:
1. Future Robotics Technology Center, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba 2750016, Japan
Abstract
This paper presents a high-precision positioning method using raw global navigation satellite system (GNSS) observations from smartphones in the Google smartphone decimeter challenge (GSDC). Compared to commercial GNSS receivers, smartphone GNSS observations are noisy owing to antenna limitations, making it difficult to apply conventional high-precision positioning methods. In addition, it is important to exclude outliers in GSDC because GSDC includes data in environments where GNSS is shielded, such as tunnels and elevated structures. Therefore, this study proposes a smartphone positioning method based on a two-step optimization method, using factor graph optimization (FGO). Here, the velocity and position optimization process are separated and the velocity is first estimated from Doppler observations. Then, the outliers of the velocity estimated by FGO are excluded, while the missing velocity is interpolated. In the next position-optimization step, the velocity estimated in the previous step is adopted as a loose state-to-state constraint and the position is estimated using the time-differenced carrier phase (TDCP), which is more accurate than Doppler, but less available. The final horizontal positioning accuracy was 1.229 m, which was the first place, thus demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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