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- Title
C/N0 Estimator Based on the Adaptive Strong Tracking Kalman Filter for GNSS Vector Receivers.
- Authors
Liu, Shiming; Li, Sihai; Zheng, Jiangtao; Fu, Qiangwen; Yuan, Yanhua
- Abstract
The carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N0) is an important indicator of the signal quality of global navigation satellite system receivers. In a vector receiver, estimating C/N0 using a signal amplitude Kalman filter is a typical method. However, the classical Kalman filter (CKF) has a significant estimation delay if the signal power levels change suddenly. In a weak signal environment, it is difficult to estimate the measurement noise for CKF correctly. This article proposes the use of the adaptive strong tracking Kalman filter (ASTKF) to estimate C/N0. The estimator was evaluated via simulation experiments and a static field test. The results demonstrate that the ASTKF C/N0 estimator can track abrupt variations in C/N0 and the method can estimate the weak signal C/N0 correctly. When C/N0 jumps, the ASTKF estimation method shows a significant advantage over the adaptive Kalman filter (AKF) method in terms of the time delay. Compared with the popular C/N0 algorithms, the narrow-to-wideband power ratio (NWPR) method, and the variance summing method (VSM), the ASTKF C/N0 estimator can adopt a shorter averaging time, which reduces the hysteresis of the estimation results.
- Subjects
GLOBAL Positioning System; TIME delay estimation; KALMAN filtering; ADAPTIVE filters
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2020, Vol 20, Issue 3, p739
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s20030739