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Automatic Calibration of Process Noise Matrix and Measurement Noise Covariance for Multi-GNSS Precise Point Positioning.
- Source :
- Mathematics (2227-7390); Apr2020, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p502-502, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The Expectation-Maximization algorithm is adapted to the extended Kalman filter to multiple GNSS Precise Point Positioning (PPP), named EM-PPP. EM-PPP considers better the compatibility of multiple GNSS data processing and characteristics of receiver motion, targeting to calibrate the process noise matrix Q<subscript>t</subscript> and observation matrix R<subscript>t</subscript>, having influence on PPP convergence time and precision, with other parameters. It is possibly a feasible way to estimate a large number of parameters to a certain extent for its simplicity and easy implementation. We also compare EM-algorithm with other methods like least-squares (co)variance component estimation (LS-VCE), maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), showing that EM-algorithm from restricted maximum likelihood (REML) will be identical to LS-VCE if certain weight matrix is chosen for LS-VCE. To assess the performance of the approach, daily observations from a network of 14 globally distributed International GNSS Service (IGS) multi-GNSS stations were processed using ionosphere-free combinations. The stations were assumed to be in kinematic motion with initial random walk noise of 1 mm every 30 s. The initial standard deviations for ionosphere-free code and carrier phase measurements are set to 3 m and 0.03 m, respectively, independent of the satellite elevation angle. It is shown that the calibrated R<subscript>t</subscript> agrees well with observation residuals, reflecting effects of the accuracy of different satellite precise product and receiver-satellite geometry variations, and effectively resisting outliers. The calibrated Q<subscript>t</subscript> converges to its true value after about 50 iterations in our case. A kinematic test was also performed to derive 1 Hz GPS displacements, showing the RMSs and STDs w.r.t. real-time kinematic (RTK) are improved and the proper Q<subscript>t</subscript> is found out at the same time. According to our analysis despite the criticism that EM-PPP is very time-consuming because a large number of parameters are calculated and the first-order convergence of EM-algorithm, it is a numerically stable and simple approach to consider the temporal nature of state-space model of PPP, in particular when Q<subscript>t</subscript> and R<subscript>t</subscript> are not known well, its performance without fixing ambiguities can even parallel to traditional PPP-RTK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22277390
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Mathematics (2227-7390)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 143099119
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/math8040502