The Global Positioning System(GPS)offers the interferometer for attitude determination by processing the carrier phase observables.By using carrier phase observables,the relative positioning is obtained in centimeter ...The Global Positioning System(GPS)offers the interferometer for attitude determination by processing the carrier phase observables.By using carrier phase observables,the relative positioning is obtained in centimeter level.GPS interferometry has been firstly used in precise static relative positioning,and thereafter in kinematic positioning.The carrier phase differential GPS based on interferometer principles can solve for the antenna baseline vector,defined as the vector between the antenna designated master and one of the slave antennas,connected to a rigid body.Determining the unknown baseline vectors between the antennas sits at the heart of GPS-based attitude determination.The conventional solution of the baseline vectors based on least-squares approach is inherently noisy,which results in the noisy attitude solutions.In this article,the complementary Kalman filter(CKF)is employed for solving the baseline vector in the attitude determination mechanism to improve the performance,where the receiver-satellite double differenced observable was utilized as the measurement.By using the carrier phase observables,the relative positioning is obtained in centimeter level.Employing the CKF provides several advantages,such as accuracy improvement,reliability enhancement,and real-time assurance.Simulation results based on the conventional method where the least-squares approach is involved,and the proposed method where the CKF is involved are compared and discussed.展开更多
This paper studies the estimation of variance and covariance compo-nents for GPS baseline network by MINQUE method.The fundamental rule forselecting variance-covariance model has been presented,and the alternative alg...This paper studies the estimation of variance and covariance compo-nents for GPS baseline network by MINQUE method.The fundamental rule forselecting variance-covariance model has been presented,and the alternative algo-rithm which simultaneouly estimates fixed variance components and scalled vari-ance components of the distance,azimuth and geodetic height difference for a GPSbaseline vector has been developed.展开更多
基金This work has been partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China[Grant Number:MOST 108-2221-E-019-013].
文摘The Global Positioning System(GPS)offers the interferometer for attitude determination by processing the carrier phase observables.By using carrier phase observables,the relative positioning is obtained in centimeter level.GPS interferometry has been firstly used in precise static relative positioning,and thereafter in kinematic positioning.The carrier phase differential GPS based on interferometer principles can solve for the antenna baseline vector,defined as the vector between the antenna designated master and one of the slave antennas,connected to a rigid body.Determining the unknown baseline vectors between the antennas sits at the heart of GPS-based attitude determination.The conventional solution of the baseline vectors based on least-squares approach is inherently noisy,which results in the noisy attitude solutions.In this article,the complementary Kalman filter(CKF)is employed for solving the baseline vector in the attitude determination mechanism to improve the performance,where the receiver-satellite double differenced observable was utilized as the measurement.By using the carrier phase observables,the relative positioning is obtained in centimeter level.Employing the CKF provides several advantages,such as accuracy improvement,reliability enhancement,and real-time assurance.Simulation results based on the conventional method where the least-squares approach is involved,and the proposed method where the CKF is involved are compared and discussed.
文摘This paper studies the estimation of variance and covariance compo-nents for GPS baseline network by MINQUE method.The fundamental rule forselecting variance-covariance model has been presented,and the alternative algo-rithm which simultaneouly estimates fixed variance components and scalled vari-ance components of the distance,azimuth and geodetic height difference for a GPSbaseline vector has been developed.
