Ambiguity resolution in precise point positioning with hourly data for global single receiver

Integer ambiguity resolution (IAR) can improve precise point positioning (PPP) performance significantly. IAR for PPP became a highlight topic in global positioning system (GPS) community in recent years. More and more researchers focus on this issue. Progress has been made in the latest years. In this paper, we aim at investigating and demonstrating the performance of a global zero-differenced (ZD) PPP IAR service for GPS users by providing routine ZD uncalibrated fractional offsets (UFOs) for wide-lane and narrow-lane. Data sets from all IGS stations collected on DOY 1, 100, 200 and 300 of 2010 are used to validate and demonstrate this global service. Static experiment results show that an accuracy better than 1 cm in horizontal and 1–2 cm in vertical could be achieved in ambiguity-fixed PPP solution with only hourly data. Compared with PPP float solution, an average improvement reaches 58.2% in east, 28.3% in north and 23.8% in vertical for all tested stations. Results of kinematic experiments show that the RMS of kinematic PPP solutions can be improved from 21.6, 16.6 and 37.7 mm to 12.2, 13.3 and 34.3 mm for the fixed solutions in the east, north and vertical components, respectively. Both static and kinematic experiments show that wide-lane and narrow-lane UFO products of all satellites can be generated and provided in a routine way accompanying satellite orbit and clock products for the PPP user anywhere around the world, to obtain accurate and reliable ambiguity-fixed PPP solutions.     

GPS/DRS/DMAP汽车定位导航系统

阐述了一种基于单片机的由速率陀螺、磁罗盘和里程仪组成的新型航迹推算系统及其工作原理,在此基础上设计了多级滤波组合方式GPS(Global Positioning System)/DRS(Dead Reckoning System)汽车定位导航系统,并通过地图匹配进一步提高定位精度,同时利用GSM(Global System for Mobile communications)进行定位数据的无线传输.跑车实验表明该系统具有较高的定位精度和可靠性.     

基于北斗三号导航系统的卫星定位技术

对北斗三号体制下的传输链路、接收门限进行理论分析,得出捕获算法采用4次非相干累加,可以使捕获灵敏度达到-130 dBm,同时实现定位时间小于5 min的综合较优结果.接着以低轨太阳同步轨道卫星为例,利用STK建模进行全轨道周期仿真,结果显示全程收星数超过4颗,定位精度达到2.59 m,速度误差为0.00378 m/s....     

自动钻铆技术在直升机机身总装中的应用研究

针对直升机装配行业的高质量、高效率的自动化装配需求,提出一种直升机机身总装自动钻铆系统。对直升机机身总装自动钻铆系统的功能、结构及关键技术进行了详细说明,此项研究系统可有效缩短直升机的研制周期、降低成本和提高竞争能力。     

两种升降回转定位装置的设计

介绍了功能完全相同、结构不同的两种升降回转定位装置的设计实例,讨论了两种设计结构各自的特点。两种结构分别命名为框架式结构和中空柱式结构,框架式结构以标准直线光轴为结构件主体和导向部件,优点是加工装配方便,适用于行程短,负载小,结构轻巧,预算成本小的场合;中空柱式结构以结构用无缝钢管为结构件主体,优点是结构刚性和导向稳定性好,适用于行程长、负载大、结构紧凑、预算成本大的场合。     

Multivariate bootstrapped relative positioning of spacecraft using GPS L1/Galileo E1 signals

GNSS-based precise relative positioning between spacecraft normally requires dual frequency observations, whereas attitude determination of the spacecraft, mainly due to the stronger model given by the a priori knowledge of the length and geometry of the baselines, can be performed precisely using only single frequency observations. When the Galileo signals will come available, the number of observations at the L1 frequency will increase as we will have a GPS and Galileo multi-constellation. Moreover the L1 observations of the Galileo system and modernized GPS are more precise than legacy GPS and this, combined with the increased number of observations, will result in a stronger model for single frequency relative positioning. In this contribution we will develop an even stronger model by combining the attitude determination problem with relative positioning. The attitude determination problem will be solved by the recently developed Multivariate Constrained (MC-) LAMBDA method. We will do this for each spacecraft and use the outcome for an ambiguity constrained solution on the baseline between the spacecraft. In this way the solution for the unconstrained baseline is bootstrapped from the MC-LAMBDA solutions of each spacecraft in what is called: multivariate bootstrapped relative positioning. The developed approach will be compared in simulations with relative positioning using a single antenna at each spacecraft (standard LAMBDA) and a vectorial bootstrapping approach. In the simulations we will analyze single epoch, single frequency success rates as the most challenging application. The difference in performance for the approaches for single epoch solutions, is a good indication of the strength of the underlying models. As the multivariate bootstrapping approach has a stronger model by applying information on the geometry of the constrained baselines, for applications with large observation noise and limited number of observations this will result in a better performance compared to the vectorial bootstrapping approach. Compared with standard LAMBDA, it can reach a 59% higher success rate for ambiguity resolution. The higher success rate on the unconstrained baseline between the platforms comes without extra computational load as the constrained baseline(s) problem has to be solved for attitude determination and this information can be applied for relative positioning.     

Towards PPP-RTK: Ambiguity resolution in real-time precise point positioning

Integer ambiguity resolution at a single station can be achieved by introducing predetermined uncalibrated phase delays (UPDs) into the float ambiguity estimates of precise point positioning (PPP). This integer resolution technique has the potential of leading to a PPP-RTK (real-time kinematic) model where PPP provides rapid convergence to a reliable centimeter-level positioning accuracy based on an RTK reference network. Nonetheless, implementing this model is technically subject to how rapidly we can fix wide-lane ambiguities, stabilize narrow-lane UPD estimates, and achieve the first ambiguity-fixed solution. To investigate these issues, we used 7 days of 1-Hz sampling GPS data at 91 stations across Europe. We find that at least 10 min of observations are required for most receiver types to reliably fix about 90% of wide-lane ambiguities corresponding to high elevations, and over 20 min to fix about 90% of those corresponding to low elevations. Moreover, several tens of minutes are usually required for a regional network before a narrow-lane UPD estimate stabilizes to an accuracy of far better than 0.1 cycles. Finally, for hourly data, ambiguity resolution can significantly improve the accuracy of epoch-wise position estimates from 13.7, 7.1 and 11.4 cm to 0.8, 0.9 and 2.5 cm for the East, North and Up components, respectively, but a few tens of minutes is required to achieve the first ambiguity-fixed solution. Therefore, from the timeliness aspect, our PPP-RTK model currently cannot satisfy the critical requirement of instantaneous precise positioning where ambiguity-fixed solutions have to be achieved within at most a few seconds. However, this model can still be potentially applied to some near-real-time remote sensing applications, such as the GPS meteorology.     

一种高精度航空结构多主体协作冲击定位方法

为了提高结构冲击载荷定位的精度和实时性,针对声发射和逆问题分析两类方法的优点和不足,结合多主体技术提出了一种高精度航空结构多主体协作冲击定位方法.两类冲击定位方法自主并行工作,通过黑板协作融合,彼此通信交互消息,参考优化定位结果,保证位置精度的同时提高了实时性.在大型航空铝板上的实验表明,该冲击载荷定位方法快速有效,具有很好的鲁棒性.     

The GLONASS-M satellite yaw-attitude model

The proper modeling of the satellites’ yaw-attitude is a prerequisite for high-precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning and poses a particular challenge during periods when the satellite orbital planes are partially eclipsed. Whereas a lot of effort has been put in to examine the yaw-attitude control of GPS satellites that are in eclipsing orbits, hardly anything is known about the yaw-attitude behavior of eclipsing GLONASS-M satellites. However, systematic variations of the carrier phase observation residuals in the vicinity of the orbit’s noon and midnight points of up to ±27 cm indicate significant attitude-related modeling issues. In order to explore the GLONASS-M attitude laws during eclipse seasons, we have studied the evolution of the horizontal satellite antenna offset estimates during orbit noon and orbit midnight using a technique that we refer to as “reverse kinematic precise point positioning”. In this approach, we keep all relevant global geodetic parameters fixed and estimate the satellite clock and antenna phase center positions epoch-by-epoch using 30-second observation and clock data from a global multi-GNSS ground station network. The estimated horizontal antenna phase center offsets implicitly provide the spacecraft’s yaw-attitude. The insights gained from studying the yaw angle behavior have led to the development of the very first yaw-attitude model for eclipsing GLONASS-M satellites. The derived yaw-attitude model proves to be much better than the nominal yaw-attitude model commonly being used by today’s GLONASS-capable GNSS software packages as it reduces the observation residuals of eclipsing satellites down to the normal level of non-eclipsing satellites and thereby prevents a multitude of measurements from being incorrectly identified as outliers. It facilitates continuous satellite clock estimation during eclipse and improves in particular the results of kinematic precise point positioning of ground-based receivers.     

超宽带螺旋天线的小型化设计

介绍一种新型的螺旋结构天线,将平面等角螺旋天线与锥面螺旋天线结合起来,采用渐变式的巴伦平衡馈电。相比传统的平面螺旋天线,针对同样频带宽度的天线设计,这种混合型螺旋天线体积更小。利用Ansoft HFSS电磁场仿真软件对天线进行建模和仿真计算,并结合仿真结果实际制作了该螺旋天线,给出了实测结果,表明天线可以在工程实际中应用。