Conventional GNSS positioning in dense urban areas can exhibit errors of tens of meters due to blockage and reflection of signals by the surrounding buildings. Here, we present a full implementation of the intelligent urban positioning (IUP) 3D-mapping-aided (3DMA) GNSS concept. This combines conventional ranging-based GNSS positioning enhanced by 3D mapping with the GNSS shadow-matching technique. Shadow matching determines position by comparing the measured signal availability with that predicted over a grid of candidate positions using 3D mapping. Thus, IUP uses both pseudo-range and signal-to-noise measurements to determine position. All algorithms incorporate terrain-height aiding and use measurements from a single epoch in time. Two different 3DMA ranging algorithms are presented, one based on least-squares estimation and the other based on computing the likelihoods of a grid of candidate position hypotheses. The likelihood-based ranging algorithm uses the same candidate position hypotheses as shadow matching and makes different assumptions about which signals are direct line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) at each candidate position. Two different methods for integrating likelihood-based 3DMA ranging with shadow matching are also compared. In the position-domain approach, separate ranging and shadow-matching position solutions are computed, then averaged using direction-dependent weighting. In the hypothesis-domain approach, the candidate position scores from the ranging and shadow matching algorithms are combined prior to extracting a joint position solution. Test data was recorded using a u-blox EVK M8T consumer-grade GNSS receiver and a HTC Nexus 9 tablet at 28 locations across two districts of London. The City of London is a traditional dense urban environment, while Canary Wharf is a modern environment. The Nexus 9 tablet data was recorded using the Android Nougat GNSS receiver interface and is representative of future smartphones. Best results were obtained using the likelihood-based ...


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    Title :

    Intelligent GNSS Positioning using 3D Mapping and Context Detection for Better Accuracy in Dense Urban Environments


    Contributors:
    Groves, PD (author) / Adjrad, M (author) / Gao, H (author) / Ellul, CD (author)

    Publication date :

    2016-11-08


    Remarks:

    In: (Proceedings) INC 16: International Navigation Conference, 8-10 November 2016, Glasgow, UK. Royal Institute of Navigation (2016)


    Type of media :

    Paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    DDC:    629




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