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An Improved Relative GNSS Tracking Method Utilizing Single Frequency Receivers

The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) becomes the primary choice for device localization in outdoor situations. At the same time, many applications do not require precise absolute Earth coordinates, but instead, inferring the geometric configuration information of the constituent nodes in t...

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Autores principales: Yang, Wenhao, Liu, Yue, Liu, Fanming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7435955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32707822
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20154073
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Liu, Yue
Liu, Fanming
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description The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) becomes the primary choice for device localization in outdoor situations. At the same time, many applications do not require precise absolute Earth coordinates, but instead, inferring the geometric configuration information of the constituent nodes in the system by relative positioning. The Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) technique shows its efficiency and accuracy in calculating the relative position. However, when the cycle slips occur, the RTK method may take a long time to obtain a fixed ambiguity value, and the positioning result will be a “float” solution with a low meter accuracy. The novel method presented in this paper is based on the Relative GNSS Tracking Algorithm (Regtrack). It calculates the changes in the relative baseline between two receivers without an ambiguity estimation. The dead reckoning method is used to give out the relative baseline solution while a parallel running Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) method reinitiates the relative baseline when too many validation failures happen. We conducted both static and kinematic tests to assess the performance of the new methodology. The experimental results show that the proposed strategy can give accurate millimeter-scale solutions of relative motion vectors in adjacent two epochs. The relative baseline solution can be sub-decimeter level with or without the base station is holding static. In the meantime, when the initial tracking point and base station coordinates are precisely obtained, the tracking result error can be only 40 cm away from the ground truth after a 25 min drive test in an urban environment. The efficiency test shows that the proposed method can be a real-time method, the time that calculates one epoch of measurement data is no more than 80 ms and is less than 10 ms for best results. The novel method can be used as a more robust and accurate ambiguity free tracking approach for outdoor applications.
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spelling pubmed-74359552020-08-24 An Improved Relative GNSS Tracking Method Utilizing Single Frequency Receivers Yang, Wenhao Liu, Yue Liu, Fanming Sensors (Basel) Article The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) becomes the primary choice for device localization in outdoor situations. At the same time, many applications do not require precise absolute Earth coordinates, but instead, inferring the geometric configuration information of the constituent nodes in the system by relative positioning. The Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) technique shows its efficiency and accuracy in calculating the relative position. However, when the cycle slips occur, the RTK method may take a long time to obtain a fixed ambiguity value, and the positioning result will be a “float” solution with a low meter accuracy. The novel method presented in this paper is based on the Relative GNSS Tracking Algorithm (Regtrack). It calculates the changes in the relative baseline between two receivers without an ambiguity estimation. The dead reckoning method is used to give out the relative baseline solution while a parallel running Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) method reinitiates the relative baseline when too many validation failures happen. We conducted both static and kinematic tests to assess the performance of the new methodology. The experimental results show that the proposed strategy can give accurate millimeter-scale solutions of relative motion vectors in adjacent two epochs. The relative baseline solution can be sub-decimeter level with or without the base station is holding static. In the meantime, when the initial tracking point and base station coordinates are precisely obtained, the tracking result error can be only 40 cm away from the ground truth after a 25 min drive test in an urban environment. The efficiency test shows that the proposed method can be a real-time method, the time that calculates one epoch of measurement data is no more than 80 ms and is less than 10 ms for best results. The novel method can be used as a more robust and accurate ambiguity free tracking approach for outdoor applications. MDPI 2020-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7435955/ /pubmed/32707822 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20154073 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7435955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32707822
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20154073
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