Abstract: A multipath mitigation method consists of locating a multipath-invariant (MPI) point of an ideal autocorrelation function and measuring the distance between the MPI point and DLL. The same MPI point is located in a received correlation function, and the distance between the point and the DLL, now affected by multipath, is measured. The difference between the ideal distance and the actual distance is the code tracking error resulting from multipath. The error is subtracted from the computed pseudorange or used to control the DLL. The method can be used to reduce the effects of all types of tracking error sources, such as signal transmission failure or code noise.

Abstract: In wireless communications and navigation systems such as GPS, pseudorange measurements are made between a signal transmitter and a signal receiver based on pseudorandom noise codes modulating the transmitted signals. In the receiver, a code is tracked by forming a correlation function between the received code and a local code replica and locating the peak of the function using a delay-lock loop (DLL). Multipath signals, which reflect from objects before arriving at the receiver, degrade the code tracking performance. Multipath-invariant points are locations of the correlation function whose properties are independent of multipath parameters, and they can therefore be located reproducibly in the presence of multipath. A multipath mitigation method consists of locating a multipath-invariant (MPI) point of an ideal autocorrelation function and measuring the distance between the MPI point and the DLL.