Integrity monitoring for kinematic precise point positioning in open-sky environments with improved computational performance

Positioning integrity monitoring (IM) is essential for liability- and safety-critical land applications such as road transport. IM methods such as solution separation apply multiple filters, which necessitates the use of computationally efficient algorithms in real-time applications. In this contrib...

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Main Authors: El-Mowafy, Ahmed, Wang, Kan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing Ltd 2022
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Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102444
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89284
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description Positioning integrity monitoring (IM) is essential for liability- and safety-critical land applications such as road transport. IM methods such as solution separation apply multiple filters, which necessitates the use of computationally efficient algorithms in real-time applications. In this contribution, a new approach that significantly improves the computation time of the measurement update of the Kalman filter is presented, where only one matrix inversion is applied for all filters with measurement subsets. The fault detection and identification method and computation of the protection levels (PLs) are discussed. The computational improvement comes at the expense of a small increase in the PL. Test results for precise point positioning (PPP) with float ambiguities in an open-sky and suburban environment demonstrate the reduced computation time using the proposed approach compared to the traditional method, with 23%-42% improvement. The availability of IM for PPP, i.e. when the PL is less than a selected alert limit of 1.625 m, ranged between 92% and 99%, depending on the allowable integrity risk, tested at 10-5 and 10-6, and the observation environment.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-892842022-09-23T05:19:29Z Integrity monitoring for kinematic precise point positioning in open-sky environments with improved computational performance El-Mowafy, Ahmed Wang, Kan Science & Technology Technology Engineering, Multidisciplinary Instruments & Instrumentation Engineering GNSS precise point positioning integrity monitoring RAIM USER ALGORITHM SOLUTION SEPARATION PPP Positioning integrity monitoring (IM) is essential for liability- and safety-critical land applications such as road transport. IM methods such as solution separation apply multiple filters, which necessitates the use of computationally efficient algorithms in real-time applications. In this contribution, a new approach that significantly improves the computation time of the measurement update of the Kalman filter is presented, where only one matrix inversion is applied for all filters with measurement subsets. The fault detection and identification method and computation of the protection levels (PLs) are discussed. The computational improvement comes at the expense of a small increase in the PL. Test results for precise point positioning (PPP) with float ambiguities in an open-sky and suburban environment demonstrate the reduced computation time using the proposed approach compared to the traditional method, with 23%-42% improvement. The availability of IM for PPP, i.e. when the PL is less than a selected alert limit of 1.625 m, ranged between 92% and 99%, depending on the allowable integrity risk, tested at 10-5 and 10-6, and the observation environment. 2022 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89284 10.1088/1361-6501/ac5d75 English http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102444 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ IOP Publishing Ltd fulltext
spellingShingle Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Instruments & Instrumentation
Engineering
GNSS
precise point positioning
integrity monitoring
RAIM USER ALGORITHM
SOLUTION SEPARATION
PPP
El-Mowafy, Ahmed
Wang, Kan
Integrity monitoring for kinematic precise point positioning in open-sky environments with improved computational performance
title Integrity monitoring for kinematic precise point positioning in open-sky environments with improved computational performance
title_full Integrity monitoring for kinematic precise point positioning in open-sky environments with improved computational performance
title_fullStr Integrity monitoring for kinematic precise point positioning in open-sky environments with improved computational performance
title_full_unstemmed Integrity monitoring for kinematic precise point positioning in open-sky environments with improved computational performance
title_short Integrity monitoring for kinematic precise point positioning in open-sky environments with improved computational performance
title_sort integrity monitoring for kinematic precise point positioning in open-sky environments with improved computational performance
topic Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Instruments & Instrumentation
Engineering
GNSS
precise point positioning
integrity monitoring
RAIM USER ALGORITHM
SOLUTION SEPARATION
PPP
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102444
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89284