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Originalsprache | Englisch |
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Aufsatznummer | 148 |
Seitenumfang | 17 |
Fachzeitschrift | GPS solutions |
Jahrgang | 28 |
Ausgabenummer | 3 |
Frühes Online-Datum | 25 Juni 2024 |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - Juli 2024 |
Abstract
In recent years, there has been increasing attention to positioning, navigation, and timing applications with smartphones. Because of frequently disrupted carrier phase observations, code observations remain critical for smartphone-based positioning. Considering a realistic stochastic model is mandatory to obtain the utmost positioning performance, this study proposes a sound stochastic approach for code observations from Android smartphones. The proposed approach includes a modified version of the SIGMA-ɛ variance model with different coefficients for each GNSS constellation and a robust Kalman filter method. First the noise characteristics of observations from the Xiaomi Mi 8 smartphone are analyzed utilizing code-minus-phase combinations to estimate the coefficients for each GNSS constellation. This includes the determination of a variance model as well as a check of the probability distribution. Finally, the proposed approach is validated in the positioning domain using single-frequency code observation-based real-time standalone positioning. The results show that more than 95% of observations follow the normal distribution when the proposed approach is applied. Compared with the conventional stochastic approach, including a C/N0-dependent model and standard Kalman filter, it improves the positioning accuracy by 45.8% in a static experiment, while its improvement is equal to 26.6% in a kinematic experiment. For the static and kinematic experiments, in 50% of the epochs, the 3D positioning errors are smaller than 3.0 m and 3.4 m for the proposed stochastic approach. The results exhibit that the stochastic properties of code observations from smartphones can be successfully represented by the proposed approach.
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in: GPS solutions, Jahrgang 28, Nr. 3, 148, 07.2024.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving the stochastic model for code pseudorange observations from Android smartphones
AU - Bahadur, Berkay
AU - Schön, Steffen
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/7
Y1 - 2024/7
N2 - In recent years, there has been increasing attention to positioning, navigation, and timing applications with smartphones. Because of frequently disrupted carrier phase observations, code observations remain critical for smartphone-based positioning. Considering a realistic stochastic model is mandatory to obtain the utmost positioning performance, this study proposes a sound stochastic approach for code observations from Android smartphones. The proposed approach includes a modified version of the SIGMA-ɛ variance model with different coefficients for each GNSS constellation and a robust Kalman filter method. First the noise characteristics of observations from the Xiaomi Mi 8 smartphone are analyzed utilizing code-minus-phase combinations to estimate the coefficients for each GNSS constellation. This includes the determination of a variance model as well as a check of the probability distribution. Finally, the proposed approach is validated in the positioning domain using single-frequency code observation-based real-time standalone positioning. The results show that more than 95% of observations follow the normal distribution when the proposed approach is applied. Compared with the conventional stochastic approach, including a C/N0-dependent model and standard Kalman filter, it improves the positioning accuracy by 45.8% in a static experiment, while its improvement is equal to 26.6% in a kinematic experiment. For the static and kinematic experiments, in 50% of the epochs, the 3D positioning errors are smaller than 3.0 m and 3.4 m for the proposed stochastic approach. The results exhibit that the stochastic properties of code observations from smartphones can be successfully represented by the proposed approach.
AB - In recent years, there has been increasing attention to positioning, navigation, and timing applications with smartphones. Because of frequently disrupted carrier phase observations, code observations remain critical for smartphone-based positioning. Considering a realistic stochastic model is mandatory to obtain the utmost positioning performance, this study proposes a sound stochastic approach for code observations from Android smartphones. The proposed approach includes a modified version of the SIGMA-ɛ variance model with different coefficients for each GNSS constellation and a robust Kalman filter method. First the noise characteristics of observations from the Xiaomi Mi 8 smartphone are analyzed utilizing code-minus-phase combinations to estimate the coefficients for each GNSS constellation. This includes the determination of a variance model as well as a check of the probability distribution. Finally, the proposed approach is validated in the positioning domain using single-frequency code observation-based real-time standalone positioning. The results show that more than 95% of observations follow the normal distribution when the proposed approach is applied. Compared with the conventional stochastic approach, including a C/N0-dependent model and standard Kalman filter, it improves the positioning accuracy by 45.8% in a static experiment, while its improvement is equal to 26.6% in a kinematic experiment. For the static and kinematic experiments, in 50% of the epochs, the 3D positioning errors are smaller than 3.0 m and 3.4 m for the proposed stochastic approach. The results exhibit that the stochastic properties of code observations from smartphones can be successfully represented by the proposed approach.
KW - GNSS
KW - Positioning
KW - Robust Kalman filter
KW - Smartphone
KW - Stochastic model
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JO - GPS solutions
JF - GPS solutions
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