Enhancing the Time-To-Fix for the unaided single-frequency integer ambiguity resolution in GNSS attitude determination applications

Author(s):  
Gabriele Giorgi ◽  
Peter J.G. Teunissen ◽  
Dennis Odijk ◽  
Peter J. Buist
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Teunissen ◽  
Amir Khodabandeh ◽  
Safoora Zaminpardaz

<p><strong>G1 – Geodetic Theory and Algorithms</strong></p><p><strong>G1.3 High-precision GNSS: methods, open problems and Geoscience applications</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Instantaneous Ambiguity Resolved GLONASS FDMA Attitude Determination</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>PJG Teunissen<sup>1,2</sup>, A. Khodabandeh<sup>3</sup>, S. Zaminpardaz<sup>4</sup></p><p><sup>1</sup>GNSS Research Centre, Curtin University, Perth, Australia</p><p><sup>2</sup>Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</p><p><sup>3</sup>University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia</p><p><sup>4</sup>RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia</p><p> </p><p>In [1] a new formulation of the double-differenced (DD) GLONASS FDMA model was introduced. It closely resembles that of CDMA-based systems and it guarantees the estimability of the newly defined GLONASS ambiguities. The close resemblance between the new GLONASS FDMA model and the standard CDMA-models implies that available CDMA-based GNSS software is easily modified [2] and that existing methods of integer ambiguity resolution can be directly applied. Due to its general applicability, we believe that the new model opens up a whole variety of carrier-phase based GNSS applications that have hitherto been a challenge for GLONASS ambiguity resolution [3]</p><p>We provide insight into the ambiguity resolution capabilities of the new GLONASS FDMA model, combine it with next-generation GLONASS CDMA signals [4] and demonstrate it for remote sensing platforms that require single-epoch, high-precision direction finding. This demonstration will be done with four different, instantaneous baseline estimators: (a) unconstrained, ambiguity-float baseline, (b) length-constrained, ambiguity-float baseline, (c) unconstrained, ambiguity-fixed baseline, and (d) length-constrained, ambiguity-fixed baseline. The unconstrained solutions are computed with the LAMBDA method, while the constrained ambiguity solutions with the C-LAMBDA method, thereby using the numerically efficient bounding-function formulation of [5]. The results will demonstrate that with the new model, GLONASS-only direction finding is instantaneously possible and that the model and associated method therefore holds great potential for array-based attitude determination and array-based precise point positioning.</p><p> </p><p>[1] P.J.G. Teunissen (2019): A New GLONASS FDMA Model, GPS Solutions, 2019, Art 100.</p><p>[2] A. Khodabandeh and P.J.G. Teunissen (2019): GLONASS-L. MATLAB code archived in GPSTOOLBOX:</p><p>https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/gps-toolbox/GLONASS-L.htm</p><p>[3] R. Langley (2017): GLONASS: Past, present and future. GPS World November 2017, 44-48.</p><p>[4] S. Zaminpardaz, P.J.G. Teunissen and N. Nadarajah (2017): GLONASS CDMA L3 ambiguity resolution</p><p>and positioning, GPS Solutions, 2017, 21(2), 535-549.</p><p>[5] P.J.G. Teunissen PJG (2010): Integer least-squares theory for the GNSS compass. Journal of Geodesy, 84:433–447</p><p> </p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>GNSS, GLONASS, FDMA, CDMA model, Instantaneous Attitude Determination, Integer Ambiguity Resolution</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 2710
Author(s):  
Ming Gao ◽  
Genyou Liu ◽  
Shengliang Wang ◽  
Gongwei Xiao ◽  
Wenhao Zhao ◽  
...  

GNSS-only attitude determination is difficult to perform well in poor-satellite-tracking environments such as urban areas with high and dense buildings or trees. In addition, it is harder to resolve integer ambiguity in the case of single-frequency single-epoch process mode. In this contribution, a low-cost MEMS gyroscope is integrated with multi-antenna GNSS to improve the performance of the attitude determination. A new tightly coupled (TC) model is proposed, which uses a single filter to achieve the optimal estimation of attitude drift, gyro biases and ambiguities. In addition, a MEMS-Attitude-aided Quality-Control method (MAQC) for GNSS observations is designed to eliminate both the carrier multipath errors and half-cycle slips disturbing ambiguity resolution. Vehicle experiments show that in GNSS-friendly scenarios, the Ambiguity Resolution (AR) success rate of the proposed model with MAQC can reach 100%, and the accuracy of attitudes are (0.12, 0.2, 0.2) degrees for heading, pitch and roll angles, respectively. Even in harsh scenarios, the AR success rate increases from about 67% for the GNSS only case to above 90% after coupling GNSS tightly with MEMS, and it is further improved to about 98% with MAQC. Meanwhile, the accuracy and continuity of attitude determination are effectively guaranteed.


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