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An improved wide-lane ambiguity resolution method for kinematic smartphone positioning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2024

Yan Zhang
Affiliation:
Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Yang Jiang*
Affiliation:
Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Yuting Gao
Affiliation:
College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
Shuai Guo
Affiliation:
Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Yang Gao
Affiliation:
Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
*
*Corresponding author: Yang Jiang; Email: yang.jiang1@ucalgary.ca
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Abstract

The release of GNSS raw data on Android smartphones provides the potential for high-precision smartphone positioning using multi-constellation and multi-frequency signals. However, severe multipath and low observation quality in kinematic environments make double-differenced uncombined ambiguities difficult to resolve reliably. To address this, the paper proposes an improved wide-lane (WL) integer ambiguity resolution (IAR) method that combines integer rounding and the Least-Square AMBiguity Decorrelation Adjustment (LAMBDA) methods. The proposed method achieved fix rates of 57% to 70% in challenging environments, with an average improvement of 7 · 7% in horizontal positioning accuracy compared to the float solution. The traditional partial integer rounding method only improved accuracy by 1 · 1%.

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Navigation
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Figure 1. Flowchart of the proposed WL IAR method

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Figure 2. Environments for each trajectory from GSDC 2022 used in our experiment

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Figure 3. Number of satellites and PDOP for each trajectory from GSDC 2022 used in our experiment

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Table 1. Process configurations for float solutions

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Table 2. Base station data information in our experiment

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Figure 4. Numbers of WL ambiguities versus the observabilities of WL ambiguities on six trajectories with six smartphones

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Figure 5. Variances of estimated WL ambiguities in the float solutions with respect to their observabilities on six trajectories with six smartphones

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Figure 6. WL ambiguity integerness on six trajectories with six smartphones with respect to different observability levels

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Figure 7. WL ambiguity fix-rates on six trajectories

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Figure 8. Typical positioning performances on the map of the truth, float, traditional and proposed method solutions of straight and bend conditions

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Table 3. Positioning RMS accuracy comparing float, traditional and proposed methods in east (E), north (N) and upward (U) directions

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Figure 9. WL IAR accuracy improvements from float to traditional and proposed methods. The order of number of experiments are aligned with Table 3

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Table 4. Comparison of six smartphone models in terms of WL ambiguity resolution performance