scholarly journals A Low-Cost Global Navigation Satellite System Positioning Accuracy Assessment Method for Agricultural Machinery

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 693
Author(s):  
Dorijan Radočaj ◽  
Ivan Plaščak ◽  
Goran Heffer ◽  
Mladen Jurišić
Keyword(s):  
Global Navigation Satellite System ◽  
Accuracy Assessment ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Agricultural Machinery ◽  
Positioning Accuracy ◽  
Global Navigation ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

The high-precision positioning and navigation of agricultural machinery represent a backbone for precision agriculture, while its worldwide implementation is in rapid growth. Previous studies improved low-cost global navigation satellite system (GNSS) hardware solutions and fused GNSS data with complementary sources, but there is still no affordable and flexible framework for positioning accuracy assessment of agricultural machinery. Such a low-cost method was proposed in this study, simulating the actual movement of the agricultural machinery during agrotechnical operations. Four of the most commonly used GNSS corrections in Croatia were evaluated in two repetitions: Croatian Positioning System (CROPOS), individual base station, Satellite-based Augmentation Systems (SBASs), and an absolute positioning method using a smartphone. CROPOS and base station produced the highest mean GNSS positioning accuracy of 2.4 and 2.9 cm, respectively, but both of these corrections produced lower accuracy than declared. All evaluated corrections produced significantly different median values in two repetitions, representing inconsistency of the positioning accuracy regarding field conditions. While the proposed method allowed flexible and effective application in the field, future studies will be directed towards the reduction of the operator’s subjective impact, mainly by implementing autosteering solutions in agricultural machinery.

Low-cost, high accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System positioning for understanding floods

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hessel Winsemius ◽  
Andreas Krietemeyer ◽  
Kirsten Van Dongen ◽  
Ivan Gayton ◽  
Frank Annor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Navigation Satellite System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Low Resource Settings ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Global Navigation ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

<p>Detailed elevation is a prerequisite for many hydrological applications. To name a few, understanding of urban and rural flood hazard and risk; understanding floodplain geometries and conveyance; and monitoring morphological changes. The accuracy of traditional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) chipsets in smart phones is typically in the order of several meters, too low to be useful for such applications. Structure from Motion photogrammetry methods or Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), may be used to establish 3D point clouds from drone photos or lidar instrumentation, but even these require very accurate Ground Control Point (GCP) observations for a satisfactory result. These can be acquired through specialised GNSS rover equipment, combined with a multi-frequency GNSS base station or base station network, providing a Real-Time (RTK) or Post-Processing Kinematics (PPK) solution. These techniques are too expensive and too difficult to maintain for use within low resource settings and are usually deployed by experts or specialised firms.</p><p>Here we investigate if accurate positioning (horizontal and vertical) can be acquired using a very recently released low-cost multi-constellation dual-frequency receiver (ublox ZED-F9P), connected with a simple antenna and a smart phone. The setup is remarkably small and easy to carry into the field. Using a geodetic (high-grade) GNSS antenna and receiver as base station, initial results over baselines in the order of a few km with the low-cost receiver revealed a positioning performance in the centimeter domain. Currently, we are testing the solution using a smart phone setup as base station within Dar es Salaam, to improve elevation mapping within the community mapping project “Ramani Huria”. We will also test the equipment for use in GCP observations within the ZAMSECUR project in Zambia and TWIGA project in Ghana. This new technology opens doors to affordable and robust observations of positions and elevation in low resource settings.</p>

scholarly journals Design of a Multiband Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Frequency Interference Monitoring Front-End with Synchronized Secondary Sensors

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 2594
Author(s):  
Aiden Morrison ◽  
Nadezda Sokolova ◽  
James Curran
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Radio Frequency Interference ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Inertial Measurement ◽  
Front End ◽  
Global Navigation ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

This paper investigates the challenges of developing a multi-frequency radio frequency interference (RFI) monitoring and characterization system that is optimized for ease of deployment and operation as well as low per unit cost. To achieve this, we explore the design and development of a multiband global navigation satellite system (GNSS) front-end which is intrinsically capable of synchronizing side channel information from non-RF sensors, such as inertial measurement units and integrated power meters, to allow the simultaneous production of substantial amounts of sampled spectrum while also allowing low-cost, real-time monitoring and logging of detected RFI events. While the inertial measurement unit and barometer are not used in the RFI investigation discussed, the design features that provide for their precise synchronization with the RF sample stream are presented as design elements worth consideration. The designed system, referred to as Four Independent Tuners with Data-packing (FITWD), was utilized in a data collection campaign over multiple European and Scandinavian countries in support of the determination of the relative occurrence rates of L1/E1 and L5/E5a interference events and intensities where it proved itself a successful alternative to larger and more expensive commercial solutions. The dual conclusions reached were that it was possible to develop a compact low-cost, multi-channel radio frequency (RF) front-end that implicitly supported external data source synchronization, and that such monitoring systems or similar capabilities integrated within receivers are likely to be needed in the future due to the increasing occurrence rates of GNSS RFI events.

scholarly journals Effect of Nonlinear Baseline Length Constraint on Global Navigation Satellite System Compass: A Theoretical Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Yanlong Chen ◽  
Jincheng Fan ◽  
Guobin Chang ◽  
Siyu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Global Navigation Satellite System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Baseline Length ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Angle Estimation ◽  
Length Constraint ◽  
Simple Scaling ◽  
Global Navigation ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

GNSS (global navigation satellite system) compass is a low-cost, high-precision, and temporally stable north-finding technique. While the nonlinear baseline length constraint is widely known to be important in ambiguity resolution of GNSS compass, its direct effect on yaw angle estimation is theoretically analyzed in this work. Four different methods are considered with different ways in which the length constraint is made use of as follows: one without considering the constraints, one with simple scaling, one with indirect statistical scaling, and one with direct statistical scaling. It is found that simple scaling does not have any effect on yaw estimation; indirect and direct statistical scalings are equivalent to each other with both being able to increase the precision. The analysis and the conclusion developed in this work can go in parallel for the case of the tilt angle estimation.

scholarly journals Performance Evaluation of Pedestrian Locations Based on Contemporary Smartphones

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jalal Ibrahim Al-Azizi ◽  
Helmi Zulhaidi Mohd Shafri
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Localization Accuracy ◽  
Environment Type ◽  
Global Navigation ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

Nowadays, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) unit is embedded in nearly every smartphone. This unit allows a smartphone to detect the user’s location and motion, and it makes functions, such as navigation, tracking, and compass applications, available to the user. Therefore, the GNSS unit has become one of the most important features in modern smartphones. However, because most smartphones incorporate relatively low-cost GNSS chips, their localization accuracy varies depending on the number of accessible GNSS satellites, and it is highly dependent on environmental factors that cause interference such as forests and buildings. This research evaluated the performance of the GNSS units inside two different models of smartphones in determining pedestrian locations in different environments. The results indicate that the overall performances of the two devices were related directly to the environment, type of smartphone/GNSS chipset, and the application used to collect the information.

scholarly journals The Effect of Different Global Navigation Satellite System Methods on Positioning Accuracy in Elite Alpine Skiing

Sensors ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 18433-18453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Gilgien ◽  
Jörg Spörri ◽  
Philippe Limpach ◽  
Alain Geiger ◽  
Erich Müller
Keyword(s):  
Global Navigation Satellite System ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Alpine Skiing ◽  
Positioning Accuracy ◽  
Global Navigation ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

scholarly journals A Quad-Constellation GNSS Navigation Algorithm with Colored Noise Mitigation

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (24) ◽  
pp. 5563
Author(s):  
Xianqiang Cui ◽  
Tianhang Gao ◽  
Changsheng Cai
Keyword(s):  
Global Navigation Satellite System ◽  
Colored Noise ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Noise Mitigation ◽  
Positioning Accuracy ◽  
Navigation Algorithm ◽  
Satellite Visibility ◽  
Global Navigation ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

The existence of colored noise in kinematic positioning will greatly degrade the accuracy of position solutions. This paper proposes a Kalman filter-based quad-constellation global navigation satellite system (GNSS) navigation algorithm with colored noise mitigation. In this algorithm, the observation colored noise and state colored noise models are established by utilizing their residuals in the past epochs, and then the colored noise is predicted using the models for mitigation in the current epoch in the integrated Global Positioning System (GPS)/GLObal NAvigation Satellite System (GLONASS)/BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS)/Galileo navigation. Kinematic single point positioning (SPP) experiments under different satellite visibility conditions and road patterns are conducted to evaluate the effect of colored noise on the positioning accuracy for the quad-constellation combined navigation. Experiment results show that the colored noise model can fit the colored noise more effectively in the case of good satellite visibility. As a result, the positioning accuracy improvement is more significant after handling the colored noise. The three-dimensional positioning accuracy can be improved by 25.1%. Different satellite elevation cut-off angles of 10º, 20º and 30º are set to simulate different satellite visibility situations. Results indicate that the colored noise is decreased with the increment of the elevation cut-off angle. Consequently, the improvement of the SPP accuracy after handling the colored noise is gradually reduced from 27.3% to 16.6%. In the cases of straight and curved roads, the quad-constellation GNSS-SPP accuracy can be improved by 22.1% and 25.7% after taking the colored noise into account. The colored noise can be well-modeled and mitigated in both the straight and curved road conditions.

scholarly journals Precise Point Positioning Algorithm for Pseudolite Combined with GNSS in a Constrained Observation Environment

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuanzhen Sheng ◽  
Xingli Gan ◽  
Baoguo Yu ◽  
Jingkui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Estimation Algorithm ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Global Navigation ◽  
Point Positioning ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite ◽  
Better Than

In urban canyon environments, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellites are heavily obstructed with frequent rise and fall and severe multi-path errors induced by signal reflection, making it difficult to acquire precise, continuous, and reliable positioning information. To meet imperative demands for high-precision positioning of public users in complex environments, like urban canyons, and to solve the problems for GNSS/pseudolite positioning under these circumstances, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Precision Point Positioning (PPP) algorithm combined with a pseudolite (PLS) was introduced. The former problems with the pseudolite PPP technique with distributed pseudo-satellites, which relies heavily on known points for initiation and prerequisite for previous high-precision time synchronization, were solved by means of a real-time equivalent clock error estimation algorithm, ambiguity fixing, and validation method. Experiments based on a low-cost receiver were performed, and the results show that in a weak obstructed environment with low-density building where the number of GNSS satellites was greater than seven, the accuracy of pseudolite/GNSS PPP with fixed ambiguity was better than 0.15 m; when there were less than four GNSS satellites in severely obstructed circumstances, it was impossible to obtain position by GNSS alone, but with the support of a pseudolite, the accuracy of PPP was able to be better than 0.3 m. Even without GNSS, the accuracy of PPP could be better than 0.5 m with only four pseudolites. The pseudolite/GNSS PPP algorithm presented in this paper can effectively improve availability with less GNSS or even without GNSS in constrained environments, like urban canyons in cities.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document