Detection of variance changes and mean value jumps in measurement noise for multipath mitigation in urban navigation

Mariana Spangenberg (1) , Jean-Yves Tourneret (2) , Vincent Calmettes (3) , Grégoire Duchâteau (1)

1 TAS - Thales Alenia Space [Toulouse]
2 ENSEEIHT - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electrotechnique, d'Electronique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et de Télécommunications
3 ISAE-SUPAERO - Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace

This paper studies an urban navigation filter for land vehicles. Typical urban-canyon phenomena as multipath and GPS outages seriously degrade positioning performance. To deal with these scenarios a hybrid navigation system using GPS and dead-reckoning sensors is presented. This navigation system is complemented by a two-step detection procedure that classifies outliers according to their associated source of error. Two different situations will be considered in the presence of multipath. These situations correspond to the presence or absence of line of sight for the different GPS satellites. Therefore, two kinds of errors are potentially ?corrupting? the pseudo-ranges, modeled as variance changes or mean value jumps in noise measurements. An original multiple model approach is proposed to detect, identify and correct these errors and provide a final consistent solution.

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Mariana Spangenberg, Jean-Yves Tourneret, Vincent Calmettes, Grégoire Duchâteau. Detection of variance changes and mean value jumps in measurement noise for multipath mitigation in urban navigation. Asilomar 2008, 42nd Conference on Signals Systems and Computers, Oct 2008, Pacific Grove, United States. pp 1193-1197, ⟨10.1109/ACSSC.2008.5074604⟩. ⟨hal-01022442⟩