A weighted GPS positioning algorithm for urban canyons using dual-polarised antennae
- 19 September 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Location Based Services
- Vol. 17 (3), 185-206
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17489725.2022.2122612
Abstract
The positioning performance of the Global Positioning System (GPS) is severely degraded in urban canyons due to buildings blocking or attenuating signals. This paper proposes a weighted GPS positioning method using a dual-polarisation antenna in order to deal with this issue. The GPS signals are first classified and labelled into NLOS signals and LOS/MP signals by considering the right-hand circular polarised (RHCP) and the left-hand circular polarised (LHCP) signal strengths. Then, a Bayesian optimisation-based Gaussian process is used to fit the pseudorange error related to the input of the carrier-to-noise ratio of the RHCP QUOTE ( ) and the elevation angle of the LOS/MP signals. The pseudorange errors of the LOS/MP signals are therefore predicted based on the rules extracted from the fitting results. The positioning solutions are then obtained from the weighted least-squares algorithm, with the weighting strategies being based on the predicted pseudorange errors. Static positioning results in deep urban areas showed that the horizontal root-mean-square error (RMSE) positioning has been improved by 64.6% and 57.3%, respectively, while 3D RMSEwas improved by 74.3% and 48.1%, respectively, compared with traditional single-point positioning results.
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Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (41974033)
- The Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20211569)
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (XCXJH20210706)
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