Blind GPS receiver with a modified despreader for interference suppression

The global positioning system (GPS) was designed to provide location estimates for various civilian and military applications using at least four satellites. Since GPS signals have a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), they also have a low signal-to-jammer ratio so that the accuracy of location estimates is influenced by cochannel interference and intentional jammers. We propose a low-complexity blind adaptive receiver that is based on a novel modified despreader and the constant modulus (CM) array. This system is capable of ing directional interference and capturing the GPS signal of interest without requiring explicit angle-of-arrival (AOA) information. We also consider the multiple satellite problem and extend the proposed receiver to capture several GPS signals of interest. Representative computer simulation examples are presented to illustrate the performance of the multicomponent system for the suppression of different jammer types.     

Next generation GPS-aided space navigation systems

The next generation of low cost Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers for space navigation and attitude determination are positioned to take full advantage of the improvements made in the commercial GPS receivers used for terrestrial applications. There have been recent improvements made to the GPS receivers that include the addition of extra GPS satellite channels that can be tracked simultaneously. The older style GPS receivers were only able to handle five channels at a time. In order for proper determination of three-dimensional position, a minimum of four channels was required and the fifth channel of the receiver was reserved to perform search functions for finding the next satellite. This included searching for satellites that could be used to replace exiting satellites moving out of the Field of View (FOV). The search function also enables the GPS receiver to search for the best constellation for maximum performance accuracy. The fifth roaming channel also provided a best next-satellite selection capability in case the field of view to one of the satellites was blocked or shaded.     

一种基于相对位置约束的双星定位方法

全球卫星定位系统(GNSS)需要至少4颗卫星才能提供持续、准确的定位结果。在有障碍物遮挡的城市街道、山谷或者存在压制式干扰的战场环境中,往往会出现可见星数量降低至4颗以下的情况。针对只有2颗可见星的定位问题,提出了通过相对位置变化对绝对位置进行解算的定位模型,证明了该模型的可行性,并研究了该模型的数值计算方法和几何搜索方法。仿真实验和实际跑车试验表明,在只有2颗可见星条件下,该方法的定位精度明显优于传统的INS/GNSS紧组合算法,并且对初始位置的精度不具有依赖性。     

Solution and performance analysis of geolocation by TDOA

One method of geolocation is based on measuring the time difference of arrivals (TDOAs) of a signal received by three or four geostationary satellites. The received signals are cross-correlated to determine the TDOAs and a set of nonlinear equations are solved to produce the location estimate. An exact solution for the transmitter position is derived for the three or four receiver cases. Extension of the solution method to more receivers is straightforward. An analysis of the performance of the system is given, together with expressions for predicting the localization mean-square errors (MSEs) and bias, and the Cramer-Rao bound. Both precision in TDOA measurements and the relative geometry between receivers and transmitter affect the localization accuracy. The geometric factors act as multipliers to the TDOA variance in the bias and MSE formulae. A study of the dependency of the geometric factors on transmitter position and satellite spacings are provided, as well as simulation results     

Spaceborne GPS receiver antenna phase center offset and variation estimation for the Shiyan 3 satellite

In determining the orbits of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites using spaceborne GPS, the errors caused by receiver antenna phase center offset (PCO) and phase center variations (PCVs) are gradually becoming a major limiting factor for continued improvements to accuracy. Shiyan 3, a small satellite mission for space technology experimentation and climate exploration, was developed by China and launched on November 5, 2008. The dual-frequency GPS receiver payload delivers 1 Hz data and provides the basis for precise orbit determination within the range of a few centime-ters. The antenna PCO and PCV error characteristics and the principles influencing orbit determi-nation are analyzed. The feasibility of PCO and PCV estimation and compensation in different directions is demonstrated through simulation and in-flight tests. The values of receiver antenna PCO and PCVs for Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and Shiyan 3 satellites are estimated from one month of data. A large and stable antenna PCO error, reaching up to 10.34 cm in the z-direction, is found with the Shiyan 3 satellite. The PCVs on the Shiyan 3 satellite are estimated and reach up to 3.0 cm, which is slightly larger than that of GRACE satellites. Orbit validation clearly improved with independent k-band ranging (KBR) and satellite laser ranging (SLR) measurements. For GRACE satellites, the average root mean square (RMS) of KBR resid-uals improved from 1.01 cm to 0.88 cm. For the Shiyan 3 satellite, the average RMS of SLR resid-uals improved from 4.95 cm to 4.06 cm.     

基于嵌入式GPU的三天线GNSS基带信号处理加速技术

GNSS软件接收机因其可移植性及灵活性等优点,持续受到业内关注。但传统的软件接收机存在计算量大、耗时长的捕获和跟踪基带信号处理过程,使得软件接收机往往跟踪通道较少,且难以在嵌入式系统上运行。利用嵌入式图形处理器(GPU)的高浮点性能和并行运算能力,对GNSS软件接收机中耗时长且并行性明显的模块进行加速,实现采用CUDA流的数据读取,以及多采样点并行的捕获和多采样点、多卫星并行的跟踪。采用嵌入式GPU进行加速后,可将数据读取速度提高3.43倍,卫星搜捕速度提高16.83倍,卫星跟踪速度提高11.28倍。实验结果表明,在嵌入式Jetson TX2平台上可以支持超过90个62MHz采样的GNSS卫星信号处理。研制了三天线GNSS信号的定位和测姿接收机,为未来小型嵌入式PNT系统的研制提供新思路。     

Preliminary Evaluation of GPS Performance for Low-Cost General Aviation

Preliminary results of a simulation effort to evaluate the requirements and feasibility of the global positioning system (GPS) as a civil air navigation system are presented. Evaluation is made of GPS requirements, from operational considerations, such as application to nonprecision approaches. The conceptual low-cost GPS receiver simulated here does not correct for the ionospheric or trophospheric delay, is sequential in nature, tracks only four satellites, and is not mechanized to make independent range rate measurements based on the Doppler shift of the GPS carrier frequency. The proposed GPS system has significantly different performance characteristics from the presently used VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) solidus distance-measuring equipment (DME) system. The GPS is a low signal level system and many have a relatively slow data rate due to the low-cost sequential receiver design. The results indicate that although the conceptual low-cost GPS receiver/ navigator is potentially more accurate than a VOR, the accuracy may degrade during aircraft turns and satellite shielding periods.     

基于气压高度辅助的机载自主完好性监测算法

卫星接收机自主完好性监测是指根据用户接收机的多余观测值监测用户定位结果的完好性,其目的是在导航过程中检测出发生故障的卫星,并保障导航定位精度。针对卫星接收机自主完好性监测算法可用性不足的问题,结合机载实际导航系统配置,提出了一种基于气压高度表辅助的机载自主完好性监测算法。综合利用卫星导航系统及气压高度表观测信息,建立联合系统的观测模型,推导了基于多解分离的完好性监测及保护级别计算方法。仿真结果表明,相比于传统的接收机自主完好性监测算法,该算法在可见星为5颗时仍能识别故障卫星。该算法具有更好的故障检测能力及可用性,能有效提高卫星导航系统的完好性监测性能,从而保证卫星导航系统的精度和可靠性。     

Aircraft Interrogation Scheduling with ASTRO-DABS

In the ASTRO-DABS concept for surveillance and data link, aircraft are interrogated by one of three geostationary transmitter satellites, each covering 1/3 of the contiguous United States. Interrogation scheduling involves a roll call such that aircraft responses to receiving satellites do not overlap (garble). A simple approach is developed which utilizes range ordering of aircraft with respect to transmitter satellites, but is independent of receiver satellite locations and aircraft distribution. Bounds on roll-call duration are established, showing that interrogation of 80 000 aircraft requires between 4.0 and 6.4 seconds with the ASTRO-DABS transmission format. If aircraft distribution is regionally concentrated (i.e., clustered), the roll-call duration nears the lower bound, since fewer gaps between interrogations are needed to preclude garbling.     

Precise orbit determination for TH02-02 satellites based on BDS3 and GPS observations

The Tianhui-2 02 (TH02-02) satellite formation, as a supplement to the microwave mapping satellite system Tianhui-2 01 (TH02-01), is the first Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) satellite formation-flying system that supports the tracking of BeiDou global navigation Satellite system (BDS3) new B1C and B2a signals. Meanwhile, the twin TH02-02 satellites also support the tracking of Global Positioning System (GPS) L1&L2 and BDS B1I&B3I signals. As the spaceborne receiver employs two independent boards to track the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellites, we design an orbit determination strategy by estimating independent receiver clock offsets epoch by epoch for each GNSS to realize the multi-GNSS data fusion from different boards. The performance of the spaceborne receiver is evaluated and the contribution of BDS3 to the kinematic and reduced-dynamic Precise Orbit Determination (POD) of TH02-02 satellites is investigated. The tracking data onboard shows that the average number of available BDS3 and GPS satellites are 8.7 and 9.1, respectively. The carrier-to-noise ratio and carrier phase noise of BDS3 B1C and B2a signals are comparable to those of GPS. However, strong azimuth-related systematic biases are recognized in the pseudorange multipath errors of B1C and B3I. The pseudorange noise of BDS3 signals is better than that of GPS after eliminating the multipath errors from specific signals. Taking the GPS-based reduced-dynamic orbit with single-receiver ambiguity fixing technique as a reference, the results of BDS3-only and BDS3 + GPS combined POD are assessed. The Root Mean Square (RMS) of orbit comparison of BDS3-based kinematic and reduced-dynamic POD with reference orbit are better than 7 cm and 3 cm in three-Dimensional direction (3D). The POD performance based on B1C&B2a data is comparable to that based on B1I&B3I. The precision of BDS3 + GPS combined kinematic orbit can reach up to 3 cm (3D RMS), which has a more than 25% improvement relative to the GPS-only solution. In addition, the consistency between the BDS3 + GPS combined reduced-dynamic orbit and the GPS-based ambiguity-fixed orbit is better than 1.5 cm (3D RMS).     

三星定位原理研究

双星定位系统只需要两颗同步卫星便可以为用户提供定位服务,但却存在着用户位置易暴露和用户数量易饱和这两大缺陷。建议采用三颗同步导航卫星像GPS卫星那样向用户播发导航电文,用户接收机根据这些导航电文信息以及气压高度表信息,像GPS接收机那样解算用户位置,从而克服了双星定位的两大缺陷。仿真表明本定位原理行之有效。     

Satellite Navigation Systems for Land Vehicles

Today's motorists often must confirm their route by referring to a roadmap. Looking at a map while driving creates a poor traffic situation, one even more acute for drivers of emergency service vehicles. To address this problem, development engineers at the General Motors Technical Cener and Delco Electronics integrated an experimental GPS receiver into a GM Buick Park Avenue. The receiver is designed to acquire and sequentially track signals from four satellites. The vehicle's precise latitude, longitude, and altitude are determined and presented on a color cathode ray tube (CRT) map display in the car's instrument panel.     

Multipath-adaptive GPS/INS receiver

Multipath interference is one of the contributing sources of errors in precise global positioning system (GPS) position determination. This paper identifies key parameters of a multipath signal, focusing on estimating them accurately in order to mitigate multipath effects. Multiple model adaptive estimation (MMAE) techniques are applied to an inertial navigation system (INS)-coupled GPS receiver, based on a federated (distributed) Kalman filter design, to estimate the desired multipath parameters. The system configuration is one in which a GPS receiver and an INS are integrated together at the level of the in-phase and quadrature phase (I and Q) signals, rather than at the level of pseudo-range signals or navigation solutions. The system model of the MMAE is presented and the elemental Kalman filter design is examined. Different parameter search spaces are examined for accurate multipath parameter identification. The resulting GPS/INS receiver designs are validated through computer simulation of a user receiving signals from GPS satellites with multipath signal interference present The designed adaptive receiver provides pseudo-range estimates that are corrected for the effects of multipath interference, resulting in an integrated system that performs well with or without multipath interference present.     

三星时差无源跟踪算法研究

基于卫星平台的无源定位系统可以通过卫星的绕地运动和轨道覆盖,实现对全球地面辐射源的被动侦察,具有侦察隐蔽性强、侦测范嗣广和不受地理位置限制的优点。把一种新的修正协方差扩展卡尔曼滤波（MVEKF）方法引入三星对运动目标的时差无源定位跟踪中,克服了EKF受初始状态和测量误差影响大的缺点,也不用像MGEKF一样需要观测方程的修正函数,仿真表明该滤波方法相对来说收敛速度更快,跟踪性能更好。     

惯性卫星紧组合导航系统仿真分析

针对SINS/Satellites进行松组合的不足,直接利用卫星信号接收机原始测量信息(伪距、伪距率),实现紧组合,来提高组合导航系统的精度和抗干扰性。文中详细推导了紧组合导航系统的伪距、伪距率误差模型,以伪距、伪距率差作为输入进行反馈,不仅当可见星数目小于4颗的时候,可以进行反馈,保证了一定的导航精度,而且可以用INS提供导航信息辅助接收机快速捕获卫星信号,这就提高了组合导航系统的容错能力。设计了SINS卫星紧组合导航系统的Kalman滤波器,并进行仿真验证,结果表明,SINS卫星紧组合较松组合有明显优势。     

用于卫星导航多星故障识别的新方法

 通过分析广义似然比方法,指出该方法不能用于多星故障识别。为能够快速识别多颗故障卫星,提高卫星导航定位系统的可靠性,提出了一种可以用于多颗故障卫星识别的接收机自主完整性监测（RAIM）的新方法——假设验证法。该方法对所有可能的故障卫星组合进行假设验证,对每种假设的故障卫星组合计算出卫星伪距偏差,然后利用此偏差构造一个新的奇偶残差矢量,最后利用特定的故障识别准则进行判断。以识别2颗故障卫星和识别3颗故障卫星为例进行了计算机仿真,结果显示：假设验证法故障正确识别率高于85%,高于现有的可用于多星故障识别的最优奇偶矢量法,可以有效提高卫星导航系统的可靠性。同时,与最优奇偶矢量法相比,假设验证法不需要求取矩阵广义特征向量,计算量将减少90%以上。     

卫星自主完好性相关峰监视

卫星自主完好性监测（SAIM）技术是地面完好性监测手段的重要技术补充,可以有效缩短告警时间,有助于从根本上提高完好性性能。从SAIM技术出发提出多通道相关峰监测算法,实现多点异步采样,恢复相关峰。通过MATLAB软件仿真验证算法并给出典型异常模型及监测结果,并用普通接收机验证工程可实现性。通过软件仿真和实测结果对比论证了方法的可行性,采用成熟的商业星载接收机进行软件修改有效地降低了卫星完好性接收装置的研发难度。     

分布式卫星干涉测高系统编队构形优化设计方法

 分布式卫星干涉合成孔径雷达（InSAR）编队构形设计是系统总体设计的关键问题。从系统测高性能优化角度出发,提出分布式InSAR编队优化设计一般方法,将其概括为求解一个优化问题,以主星带辅星群体制分布式InSAR为例建立目标函数,针对其星载双站、斜视、空间基线等特点建立测高精度与辅星轨道根数的关系,基于近似的相对运动数学模型对该优化问题进行简化,并采用遗传算法求解。在此基础上,对多颗卫星组成编队以提高系统测高性能提出了一种多星编队设计方法。仿真分析表明,经优化得到的编队测高性能要优于干涉车轮和钟摆编队,该结果验证了优化设计方法的有效性和正确性。     

双基地及其联网系统的定位方法及精度分析

讨论的双基地系统中,发射站只起照射目标的作用,而接收站测量距离和、方位角及俯仰角。分析了双基地系统的目标定位方法和定位误差。通过分析定位精度在受控区域内的分布,提示了双基地系统的定位性能。文中对组网双基地系统的定位处理方法进行了讨论,其中采用WLS(Weighted Least Square)算法进行数据融合处理,仿真结果表明,联网双基地系统的定位精度大有提高。     

基于I、Q信号的北斗接收机跟踪环路设计

传统的北斗接收机一般采用标量跟踪环,每个通道的卫星相互独立,在此 基础上,又发展起来了基于矢量跟踪的接收机,使每个通道的卫星跟踪不再相互独立。 提出的基于I、Q 信号观测的接收机跟踪环路,保留矢量跟踪的特点,并且采用EKF 作 为跟踪环路预处理滤波器,代替传统跟踪环路的鉴别器,可以在高动态的环境下对卫星 信号进行跟踪,提高环路的稳定性,从而可以有效地提高BDS/INS 深组合导航滤波器观 测量的估计精度。主要对高动态信号跟踪进行仿真,并与传统的标量跟踪方法和矢量跟 踪方法的跟踪能力进行比较。实验表明, 改进的矢量跟踪环能够在高动态的环境下运 行,比起传统环路有更小的跟踪误差。