Estimation and Mitigation of Unmodeled Errors for a Pseudolite Based Reference System

<p>Current flight reference systems rely heavily on the Global Positioning System (GPS) causing susceptibility to GPS jamming. Additionally an increasing number of tests involve jamming the GPS signal. A need exists to develop a system capable of GPS-level accuracy during these outages. One promising solution is a ground-based pseudolite system capable of delivering sub-centimeter level accuracy yet operating at non-GPS frequencies. This thesis attempts to determine the unknown errors in the Locata system one such pseudolite-based system to achieve the accuracy required. The development of a measurement simulation tool along with a Kalman filter algorithm provides confimmation of filter performance as well as the ability to process real data measurements and evaluate simulated versus real data comparatively. The simulation tool creates various types of measurements with induced noise tropospheric delays pseudolite position errors and tropospheric scale-factor errors. In turn the Kalman filter resolves these errors along with position velocity and acceleration for both simulated and real data measurements enabling error analysis to pinpoint both expected and unexpected error sources. Simulated results con rmed the ability to render centimeter level solutions in a noisy environment proper pseudolite position error estimation and suitable tropospheric scale-factor estimation. Additionally the simulation demonstrated the inability to conduct simultaneous estimation of both the pseudolite position errors and the tropospheric scale-factor. Real data results indicate the algorithm renders a highly accurate (6cm) position solution after applying the low elevation tropospheric delay model substantiated in this thesis. Furthermore the ability to resolve the pseudolite position errors and tropospheric scale-factor provide mitigation of previously unmodeled errors and highlight the fact additional errors exist which remain undetermined.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>