Single-Epoch Ambiguity Resolution for Urban Ultra-Short Baseline Attitude Determination Using Low-Cost GNSS Receivers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenyi Li ◽  
Xiaowei Cui ◽  
Sihao Zhao ◽  
Mingquan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Ambiguity Resolution ◽  
Attitude Determination ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Gnss Receivers ◽  
Single Epoch

scholarly journals Single-epoch RTK performance assessment of tightly combined BDS-2 and newly complete BDS-3

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanke Liu ◽  
Mingkui Wu ◽  
Xiaohong Zhang ◽  
Wang Wang ◽  
Wei Ke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Ambiguity Resolution ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Single Frequency ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Positioning Accuracy ◽  
Single Epoch

AbstractThe BeiDou global navigation satellite system (BDS-3) constellation deployment has been completed on June 23, 2020, with a full constellation comprising 30 satellites. In this study, we present the performance assessment of single-epoch Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) positioning with tightly combined BeiDou regional navigation satellite system (BDS-2) and BDS-3. We first investigate whether code and phase Differential Inter-System Biases (DISBs) exist between the legacy B1I/B3I signals of BDS-3/BDS-2. It is discovered that the DISBs are in fact about zero for the baselines with the same or different receiver types at their endpoints. These results imply that BDS-3 and BDS-2 are fully interoperable and can be regarded as one constellation without additional DISBs when the legacy B1I/B3I signals are used for precise relative positioning. Then we preliminarily evaluate the single-epoch short baseline RTK performance of tightly combined BDS-2 and the newly completed BDS-3. The performance is evaluated through ambiguity resolution success rate, ambiguity dilution of precision, as well as positioning accuracy in kinematic and static modes using the datasets collected in Wuhan. Experimental results demonstrate that the current BDS-3 only solutions can deliver comparable ambiguity resolution performance and much better positioning accuracy with respect to BDS-2 only solutions. Moreover, the RTK performance is much improved with tightly combined BDS-3/BDS-2, particularly in challenging or harsh conditions. The single-frequency single-epoch tightly combined BDS-3/BDS-2 solution could deliver an ambiguity resolution success rate of 96.9% even with an elevation cut-off angle of 40°, indicating that the tightly combined BDS-3/BDS-2 could achieve superior RTK positioning performance in the Asia–Pacific region. Meanwhile, the three-dimensional (East/North/Up) positioning accuracy of BDS-3 only solution (0.52 cm/0.39 cm/2.14 cm) in the kinematic test is significantly better than that of the BDS-2 only solution (0.85 cm/1.02 cm/3.01 cm) due to the better geometry of the current BDS-3 constellation. The tightly combined BDS-3/BDS-2 solution can provide the positioning accuracy of 0.52 cm, 0.22 cm, and 1.80 cm, respectively.

scholarly journals A Low-Cost INS-Integratable GNSS Ultra-Short Baseline Attitude Determination System

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 2114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenyi Li ◽  
Peirong Fan ◽  
Xiaowei Cui ◽  
Sihao Zhao ◽  
Tianyi Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Determination ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Determination System

scholarly journals An Improved Single-Epoch Attitude Determination Method for Low-Cost Single-Frequency GNSS Receivers

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 2746
Author(s):  
Xinzhe Wang ◽  
Yinbin Yao ◽  
Chaoqian Xu ◽  
Yinzhi Zhao ◽  
Huan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Attitude Determination ◽  
Search Algorithm ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Single Frequency ◽  
Baseline Length ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Cycle Slips ◽  
Ambiguity Fixing

GNSS attitude determination has been widely used in various navigation and positioning applications, due to its advantages of low cost and high efficiency. The navigation positioning and attitude determination modules in the consumer market mostly use low-cost receivers and face many problems such as large multipath effects, frequent cycle slips and even loss of locks. Ambiguity fixing is the key to GNSS attitude determination and will face more challenges in the complex urban environment. Based on the CLAMBDA algorithm, this paper proposes a CLAMBDA-search algorithm based on the multi-baseline GNSS model. This algorithm improves the existing CLAMBDA method through a fixed geometry constraint among baselines in the vehicle coordinate system. A fixed single-baseline solution reduces two degrees of freedom of vehicle rigid body, and a global minimization search for the ambiguity objective function in the other degree of freedom is conducted to calculate the baseline vector and its Euler angles. In addition, in order to make up for the shortcomings of short baseline ambiguity in complex environments, this paper proposes different validation strategies. Using three low-cost receivers (ublox M8T) and patch antennas, static and dynamic on-board experiments with different baseline length set-ups were carried out in different environments. Both the experiments prove that the method proposed in this paper has greatly improved the ambiguity fixing performance and also the Euler angle calculation accuracy, with an acceptable calculation burden. It is a practical vehicle-mounted attitude determination algorithm.

scholarly journals Testing the Performance of Multi-Frequency Low-Cost GNSS Receivers and Antennas

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 2029
Author(s):  
Veton Hamza ◽  
Bojan Stopar ◽  
Oskar Sterle
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Geodetic Network ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
True Value ◽  
Gnss Receivers ◽  
Baseline Test ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) low-cost multi-frequency receivers are argued as an alternative to geodetic receivers for many applications. Calibrated low-cost antennas recently became available on the market making low-cost instruments more comparable with geodetic ones. The main goal of this research was to evaluate the noise of low-cost GNSS receivers, to compare the positioning quality from different types of low-cost antennas, and to analyze the positioning differences between low-cost and geodetic instruments. The results from a zero baseline test indicated that the u-blox multi-frequency receiver, namely, ZED-F9P, had low noise that was at the sub-millimeter level. To analyze the impact of the antennas in the obtained coordinates, a short baseline test was applied. Both tested uncalibrated antennas (Tallysman TW3882 and Survey) demonstrated satisfactory positioning performance. The Tallysman antenna was more accurate in the horizontal position determination, and the difference from the true value was only 0.1 mm; while, for the Survey antenna, the difference was 1.0 mm. For the ellipsoid height, the differences were 0.3 and 0.6 mm for the Survey and Tallysman antennas, respectively. The comparison of low-cost receivers with calibrated low-cost antennas (Survey Calibrated) and geodetic instruments proved better performance for the latter. The geodetic GNSS instruments were more accurate than the low-cost instruments, and the precision of the estimated coordinates from the geodetic network was also greater. Low-cost GNSS instruments were not at the same level as the geodetic ones; however, considering their cost, they demonstrated excellent performance that is sufficiently appropriate for various geodetic applications.

scholarly journals Research on Tightly Coupled Multi-Antenna GNSS/MEMS Single-Frequency Single-Epoch Attitude Determination in Urban Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 2710
Author(s):  
Ming Gao ◽  
Genyou Liu ◽  
Shengliang Wang ◽  
Gongwei Xiao ◽  
Wenhao Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Ambiguity Resolution ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Attitude Determination ◽  
Integer Ambiguity ◽  
Single Frequency ◽  
Half Cycle ◽  
Cycle Slips ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Single Epoch

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.

scholarly journals Analysis of the performance of closely spaced low-cost multi-GNSS receivers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenyu Xue ◽  
Panos Psimoulis ◽  
Qiuzhao Zhang ◽  
Xiaolin Meng
Keyword(s):  
Noise Level ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Deformation Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring Networks ◽  
Engineering Structures ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Common Error ◽  
Satellite Constellation ◽  
Gnss Receivers

AbstractThe recent advances of low-cost GNSS receivers have broadened their application field not only in positioning and navigation, but also in deformation monitoring of civil engineering structures and geohazards. Even though some consumer-grade low-cost GNSS receivers can achieve cm-level accuracy, their lower performance compared to the dual-frequency high-end GNSS receivers restricts its systematic application of GNSS technology in monitoring projects. In this study, the noise level and performance of the low-cost GNSS receivers are assessed against geodetic receivers in terms of precision and availability when subjected to different measurements conditions, such as antenna grade, satellite constellation, and base station (antenna-receiver), based on zero- and short-baseline measurements. Furthermore, a new method is developed where a dual low-cost GNSS rover-system is formed by deploying two closely spaced low-cost GNSS receivers (30 cm apart), aiming to model their common error (multipath, satellite constellation, etc.) and reduce their noise level. The analysis of the zero- and short-baseline measurements reveals the potential improvement of the precision of the low-cost receiver by using multi-GNSS measurements and the importance of using a GNSS base station with geodetic antenna. However, development of a methodology which is based on adopting the sidereal filtering and the common mode error technique for the two closely spaced low-cost GNSS receivers may lead to precision of mm-level. The proposed methodology may broaden the application of low-cost GNSS receivers in monitoring networks and mainly for slowly developed deformations.

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