Integrity monitoring of NavIC by parsing broadcast ephemeris

Abstract Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are used to provide position estimation to the users. These navigation systems must meet the required navigation parameters (RNP) parameters. Among them integrity being the important parameter, defined as a navigation system’s honesty of the information provided to the user by satellites. The extremity of error due to clocks, ephemeris etc., broadcasted in navigation message of NavIC will result in inaccurate information provided by the satellites that tamper the Navigation with Indian constellation (NavIC) system integrity. The information provided by the satellites may be faulty due to various error sources and cannot be used for applications which require very high accuracy. Integrity of the information provided by satellites plays a vital role and the system needs to be notified accordingly. The traditional methods receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) algorithms require both navigation and observation data for implementation and involves several computations, hence in this paper an efficient approach considering only navigation message is proposed to monitor the integrity of NavIC. The NavIC Navigation data of 28 days data corresponding to 4 months is collected from IGS website. The integrity check is performed considering the satellite‘s User Range Accuracy Upper Bound (URA UB), fit interval and health parameters from navigation message. It is observed from the results that there are specific instances of integrity failure of NavIC system. However, it is also noticed that 99.5 % of times the integrity provided by NavIC is within specified limits that guarantee the NavIC utility for critical applications.