{"title":"A comparison between resistant GNSS positioning techniques in harsh environment","authors":"A. Angrisano, S. Gaglione, A. Maratea","doi":"10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433232","url":null,"abstract":"Environments as urban areas are critical for GNSS, because several obstacles block, attenuate and distort the signals; consequently, frequent blunders are present among the measurements and their effect on the position could be harmful. Two approaches are usually adopted to tackle the blunder issue, RAIM and robust estimation, and both are effective in case of high redundancy and single blunders. An alternative method, based on bootstrapping, i.e. random sampling with replacement, the available measurements, has recently emerged. The performance of the considered methods could be augmented by exploiting suitable measurement error models, which are used to differently weighting the measurements in RAIM and robust estimators, and to defining not uniform sampling probabilities in bootstrap; several models, based on the most common measurement quality indicators, carrier-to-noise ratio and satellite elevation, are herein analyzed. In this work, the three techniques, coupled with several error models, are compared in terms of mean, RMS and maximum position errors, processing data from urban scenario. The results demonstrate the best performance of bootstrap method, which works effectively in case of multiple blunders and/or the lack of redundancy, when RAIM and robust techniques are often unsuccessful. Moreover, the results highlight the importance of a careful choice of a measurement error model.","PeriodicalId":434266,"journal":{"name":"2018 European Navigation Conference (ENC)","volume":"9 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123778495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guoyong Wang, Y. Meng, Lang Bian, Yuanbo Yao, T. Yan, Wenying Lei
{"title":"Study on Method of Laser Time and Frequency Transfer Between Satellite and Ground Station","authors":"Guoyong Wang, Y. Meng, Lang Bian, Yuanbo Yao, T. Yan, Wenying Lei","doi":"10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433234","url":null,"abstract":"Time and frequency transfer is of great value in satellite navigation, communication and others fields. The existing link of time and frequency transfer based on laser pulse is mainly used for time transfer, it is unable to achieve the optical frequency transfer. In this paper, a method of satellite-ground time and frequency transfer based on ultra narrow linewidth laser and optical frequency comb is proposed. This method not only can implement the time transfer but also can implement the frequency transfer, which has the very high application value.","PeriodicalId":434266,"journal":{"name":"2018 European Navigation Conference (ENC)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131774385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motion Conflict Detection in the Smart Tachograph","authors":"D. Borio, E. Cano, G. Baldini","doi":"10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433238","url":null,"abstract":"The Smart Tachograph (ST), the new revision of the Digital Tachograph (DT), has to verify periodically the consistency of data from different sensors in order to mitigate the risks of frauds. In this respect, a test procedure is specified for the detection of motion conflicts originating from inconsistencies between Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and odometry data. This paper provides an experimental evaluation of the motion conflict detection procedure specified by the ST regulation. Several hours of data were collected using two vehicles equipped with a multi-constellation GNSS receiver and an On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) data reader. The data collected were then used to implement the tests prescribed by the ST regulation and evaluate their effectiveness. The analysis shows that the new regulation significantly strengthens the DT against possible attacks, such as GNSS meaconing. In particular, an attacker is forced to falsify data simultaneously and coherently from both the vehicle sensor and the GNSS receiver. Moreover, it is shown that the metrics selected for the tests are resilient to data gaps and relative delays between GNSS and odometer data.","PeriodicalId":434266,"journal":{"name":"2018 European Navigation Conference (ENC)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132374288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaakko Pihlajasalo, H. Leppäkoski, S. Ali-Löytty, R. Piché
{"title":"Improvement of GPS and BeiDou extended orbit predictions with CNNs","authors":"Jaakko Pihlajasalo, H. Leppäkoski, S. Ali-Löytty, R. Piché","doi":"10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433244","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method for improving the accuracy of extended GNSS satellite orbit predictions with convolutional neural networks (CNN). Satellite orbit predictions are used in self-assisted GNSS to reduce the Time to First Fix of a satellite positioning device. We describe the models we use to predict the satellite orbit and present the improvement method that uses CNN. The CNN estimates future prediction errors of our model and these estimates are used to correct our orbit predictions. We also describe how the neural network can be implemented into our prediction algorithm. In tests with GPS and BeiDou data, the method significantly improves orbit prediction accuracy. For example, the 68% error quantile of 7 day orbit prediction errors of GPS satellites was reduced by 45% on average.","PeriodicalId":434266,"journal":{"name":"2018 European Navigation Conference (ENC)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133414487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workload and navigational control : The control levels of COCOM as framework for ship bridge HMI design","authors":"T. Porathe","doi":"10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433239","url":null,"abstract":"A future sustainable world will also rely of safe, efficient and environmentally friendly maritime transportation. This paper suggests a new way of looking at ship bridge design based on some theoretical constructs of information processing and cognitive engineering. It briefly references two maritime accidents where a mismatch between the availability of information and human performance can be detected. It then shortly discuss the impact of stress on human performance and present how Hollnagel’s Contextual Control Model (COCOM) theory can be used to structure design work and bridge layout based on operator workload. The intention is to advance HMI design and integration of bridge equipment based on the different theoretical control levels. The Scrambled control level is presently not supported by modern bridge equipment and new research into this type of user interfaces is proposed.","PeriodicalId":434266,"journal":{"name":"2018 European Navigation Conference (ENC)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134401039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Marathe, A. Broumandan, A. Pirsiavash, G. Lachapelle
{"title":"Characterization of Range and Time Performance of Indoor GNSS Signals","authors":"T. Marathe, A. Broumandan, A. Pirsiavash, G. Lachapelle","doi":"10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433236","url":null,"abstract":"Small cells are now widely used to provide indoor wireless services and are gaining further importance as technology enablers for emerging applications. These techniques rely on accurate synchronization of signals broadcast from neighboring base stations. Therefore, the latters must have access to reliable and accurate time reference. GNSS signals can be used to provide a reliable global time reference in open sky conditions. However, owing to low levels of signals indoors, the detection and processing of these signals and obtaining an accurate time indoors are still a challenge. It is assumed that accurate position estimates are known for indoor static applications which are obtained either using GNSS or other indoor positioning technologies. Under this assumption, fine timing solution can be provided with reliable single satellite information. As such this paper characterizes GPS based measurement and timing accuracies for indoor signals. This study specifically focuses on assessing range and timing accuracies for static indoor locations. Actual GPS data was collected at two indoor sites having different indoor characteristics for duration of more than ten minutes at each site. Assuming a known user position, measurement accuracies are analyzed over time while simultaneously observing received signal power. Ranging (timing) accuracy in the order of 10 m (30 ns) was achievable for the indoor scenarios considered. Finally, to assess the capability of indoor measurements to sustain good time synchronization accuracy over a longer duration, two-minute data segments were collected at intervals of 30 minutes for three hours. The time variations of the pseudorange (time) and position errors are studied.","PeriodicalId":434266,"journal":{"name":"2018 European Navigation Conference (ENC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134263409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimum Detectable Velocity Based on GNSS Doppler Phase Observables","authors":"Roland Hohensinn, A. Geiger, M. Meindl","doi":"10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433228","url":null,"abstract":"A focus of the Institute for Geodesy and Photogrammetry (IGP) lies on the GNSS data processing for the monitoring of slope movements in high Alpine regions in the Swiss Alps. Thawning of permafrost areas (e.g. rock glaciers) can cause threats for humans and infrastructure. In order to bridge the gap from monitoring in post-processing to early warning in realtime, the IGP is developing and testing algorithms for the instant detection of hazardous slope movements by means of estimates of the instantaneous station velocity based on GNSS Doppler phase observations. This paper focuses on the derivation of a Minimum Detectable Velocity (MDV) for this method. Experimental tests reveal that depending on the sampling interval velocities down to the mm/s-level can be detected. Simulations of the MDV based on static GNSS measurements reveal that it can even be possible to detect movements at the sub-mm/s level. Advantages of this method are the ‘standalone’ solution and the real-time provision of movement information. It thus will strongly contribute to a landslide early warning system.","PeriodicalId":434266,"journal":{"name":"2018 European Navigation Conference (ENC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122027614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modulation and Signal-Processing Tradeoffs for Reverse-GPS Wildlife Localization Systems","authors":"A. Leshchenko, Sivan Toledo","doi":"10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433240","url":null,"abstract":"Reverse-GPS wildlife localization systems are emerging as a key technology for regional high-throughput wildlife tracking. Two such systems have been designed, implemented, and deployed (in six sites on three continents). Both of the existing systems suffer from limitations due to the modulation that is used by transmitters, which are attached to wild animals, and due to the detection and estimation algorithms that they use to detect transmissions and estimate their arrival times. This paper investigates key tradeoffs associated with three different modulation schemes that wildlife tags can plausibly use. The factors that we investigate include the ability to detect weak signals from distant tags, the ability to accurately estimate the time-of-arrival at a given SNR, and the computational cost of these detection and estimation algorithms. Our key contributions are (1) evidence that BPSK modulation is superior in essentially all relevant metrics, except perhaps chip availability, to FSK and OOK; (2) evidence that OOK is a second-best choice and its main drawback is poor performance under interference from other tags; (3) algorithms to inexpensively search the frequency-delay space at moderate and high SNRs. We also report on implementation efforts designed to integrate robust processing of BPSK tags into a wildlife tracking system.","PeriodicalId":434266,"journal":{"name":"2018 European Navigation Conference (ENC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126776375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design Analysis of a Hyperbolic Landing Navigation System for Aircraft","authors":"Thanh Bang Le, P. Makula, J. Bajer, M. Richterová","doi":"10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433225","url":null,"abstract":"Radio navigation is widely used nowadays, especially to precisely estimate aircraft position during the approach and landing phase of flight. However, it is challenging to ensure the accuracy of aircraft navigation using a transmission channel that changes rapidly due to noise and interference. To increase the safety and reliability of aircraft in the approach and landing phase, a hyperbolic landing system is proposed as a non-autonomous system. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the mechanism of radio signal propagation between the transmitters and receiver of a novel hyperbolic navigation system that uses the TDOA method. The paper evaluates the effects of the radio channel environment on the proposed system in the landing phase of flight. The theoretical analysis is verified by MATLAB simulations.","PeriodicalId":434266,"journal":{"name":"2018 European Navigation Conference (ENC)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127148223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robust radio localization with FLIP","authors":"Reinhard Müllner, Thomas Burgess","doi":"10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURONAV.2018.8433241","url":null,"abstract":"Radio fingerprinting based localization relies on comparing observations to a database of reference radio fingerprint point data. For complex buildings these databases can be very large. As mobile devices have limitations in storage capacity, working memory, processing speed, and power usage, making an on-terminal system that works well even in large installations is challenging. Moreover, the reported Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) scale often differ between devices, so that naive approaches for fingerprint similarity easily can fail to produce reliable results. In this paper, FLexible Indoor Position (FLIP) is presented to address these issues. It provides efficient device independent positioning even in complex buildings, while also taking inhomogeneous transmitter power levels and radio map irregularities into consideration. Despite plain accuracy not being the main goal of FLIP, when it was evaluated on the raw UJIIndoorLoc WiFi database it yielded a median positioning error of 4.7 m (and above 93 % floor level/building identification success rate), which is competitive to other significantly more computation intense approaches. In commercial applications with dedicated iBeacon infrastructures, FLIP routinely reaches median errors below 2 m.","PeriodicalId":434266,"journal":{"name":"2018 European Navigation Conference (ENC)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126464077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}