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GPS Receiver Performance Enhancement via Inertial Velocity Aiding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2001

Dah-Jing Jwo
Affiliation:
Institute of Maritime Technology, National Taiwan Ocean University

Abstract

An integrated GPS/INS navigation system can employ inertial velocity information to produce a more robust system. For a stand-alone GPS receiver, decreasing the receiver tracking loop bandwidth reduces the probability of losing lock in a jamming or interference environment if vehicle dynamics are low. However, reduced bandwidth increases tracking errors when dynamics are present. Beyond a certain limit, it causes a serious degradation in the dynamic tracking loop performance. Providing inertial velocity aiding to the receiver tracking loops is an effective and popular treatment to help resolve this problem. In this paper, performance of the GPS receiver tracking loops using inertial velocity aiding will be investigated. Different types of tracking loops, from 1st to 3rd order, are covered. Following the discussion of the system architecture and derivation of the related transfer functions for the tracking loops, both with and without aiding, the system performance, including transient response, steady-state error, and noise bandwidth is evaluated.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 The Royal Institute of Navigation

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