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Improvement of Differential-GNSS Positioning by Estimating Code Double-Difference-Error Using Machine Learning

Hirotaka KATO, Junichi MEGURO

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Recently, Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning has been widely used in various applications (e.g. car navigation system, smartphone map application, autonomous driving). In GNSS positioning, coordinates are calculated from observed satellite signals. The observed signals contain various errors, so the calculated coordinates also have some errors. Double-difference is one of the widely used ideas to reduce the errors of the observed signals. Although double-difference can remove many kinds of errors from the observed signals, some errors still remain (e.g. multipath error). In this paper, we define the remaining error as “double-difference-error (DDE)” and propose a method for estimating DDE using machine learning. In addition, we attempt to improve DGNSS positioning by feeding back the estimated DDE. Previous research applying machine learning to GNSS has focused on classifying whether the signal is LOS (Line Of Sight) or NLOS (Non Line Of Sight), and there is no study that attempts to estimate the amount of error itself as far as we know. Furthermore, previous studies had the limitation that their dataset was recorded at only a few locations in the same city. This is because these studies are mainly aimed at improving the positioning accuracy of vehicles, and collecting large amounts of data using vehicles is costly. To avoid this problem, in this research, we use a huge amount of openly available stationary point data for training. Through the experiments, we confirmed that the proposed method can reduce the DGNSS positioning error. Even though the DDE estimator was trained only on stationary point data, the proposed method improved the DGNSS positioning accuracy not only with stationary point but also with mobile rover. In addition, by comparing with the previous (detect and remove) approach, we confirmed the effectiveness of the DDE feedback approach.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E106-D No.12 pp.2069-2077
Publication Date
2023/12/01
Publicized
2023/09/12
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2023EDP7015
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Pattern Recognition

Authors

Hirotaka KATO
  Meijo University
Junichi MEGURO
  Meijo University

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