Abstract: The navigation system described here utilizes GPS and Galileo satellite signals combined with Inertial Navigation Systems (INS), where a Coupled Antenna (CAN) provides both GNSS and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data to a Highly Integrated GNSS-Inertial (Hi-Gi) receiver. Such receiver makes use of a high fidelity relation between GNSS unprocessed Correlator Output (COUT) I and Q data and the user trajectory, and inertial sensor data, which in turn are combined within a Kalman Filter (KF). The KF determines the navigation solution that is also used to provide feedback to the receiver demodulation signal processing stage, thus eliminating the need of dedicated structures such as Delayed Locked Loops (DLL) and Phase Locked Loops (PLL), allowing a significant improvement in navigation performance.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 29, 2007
Date of Patent:
January 29, 2013
Assignees:
Deimos Engenharia S.A., Instituto de Geomatica
Inventors:
Pedro Dias Freire Da Silva, João Simões Silva, Augusto Caramagno, Antonio Fernandez Ortiz-Repiso, Jose Diez Secadas, Ismael Colomina