The theoretical aspects of the precise velocity determination of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites'on board Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers are derived. It shows that the receiver's Phase L...The theoretical aspects of the precise velocity determination of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites'on board Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers are derived. It shows that the receiver's Phase Lock Loop (PLL) is required to feature extremely small group delay within its low frequency band, which is in contrast to existing work that proposed wide band linear phase filters. Following this theory, a Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter is proposed. To corroborate, the proposed FIR filter and an Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filter lately proposed in literals are implemented in a LEO satellite onboard GNSS receiver. Tests are conducted using a third party commercial GPS signal generator. The results show that the GNSS receiver with the proposed FIR achieves 11 mm/s R.M.S precision, while the GNSS receiver with the IIR filter has a filter-caused velocity error that can not be ignored for space borne GNSS receivers.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61132002,61231011)
文摘The theoretical aspects of the precise velocity determination of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites'on board Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers are derived. It shows that the receiver's Phase Lock Loop (PLL) is required to feature extremely small group delay within its low frequency band, which is in contrast to existing work that proposed wide band linear phase filters. Following this theory, a Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter is proposed. To corroborate, the proposed FIR filter and an Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filter lately proposed in literals are implemented in a LEO satellite onboard GNSS receiver. Tests are conducted using a third party commercial GPS signal generator. The results show that the GNSS receiver with the proposed FIR achieves 11 mm/s R.M.S precision, while the GNSS receiver with the IIR filter has a filter-caused velocity error that can not be ignored for space borne GNSS receivers.
