GNSS Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring with a Dynamic Model

Abstract

Traditionally, GNSS receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) has been based upon single epoch solutions. RAIM can be improved considerably when available dynamic information is fused together with the GNSS range measurements in a Kalman filter. However, while the Kalman filtering technique is widely accepted to provide optimal estimates for the navigation parameters of a dynamic platform, assuming the state and observation models are correct, it is still susceptible to unmodelled errors. Furthermore, significant deviations from the assumed models for dynamic systems may also occur. It is therefore necessary that the state estimation procedure is complemented with effective and reliable integrity measures capable of identifying both measurement and modelling errors. Within this paper, fundamental equations required for the effective detection and identification of outliers in a kinematic GNSS positioning and navigation system are described together with the reliability and separability measures. These quality measures are implemented using a Kalman filtering procedure formulated with Gauss-Markov models where the state estimates are derived from least squares principles. Detailed simulations and analyses have been performed to assess the impact of the dynamic information on GNSS RAIM with respect to outlier detection and identification, reliability and separability. The ability of the RAIM algorithms to detect and identify dynamic modelling errors is also investigated. K E Y

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