Multipath adaptive filtering in GNSS/RTK-based machine automation applications

Abstract

Machine control and automation has always been perceived as an intermediate process to increase industrial productivity (and thus profitability), operability, comfort, and safety net gain for human lives and goods. However one of the biggest limitation factors to achieve and implement successful automation systems for the markets of surveying, precision agriculture, aircraft precision approach, maritime ship guidance, and construction automation (just to name a few) has been the difficulty to prove that the underlying positioning infra-structure can provide reliably and continuously position and navigation information throughout all conditions, and scenarios.