Doppler Differential Positioning Technology Using the BDS/GPS Indoor Array Pseudolite System

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 19; no. 20; p. 4580
• Main Authors: Gan, Xingli, Yu, Baoguo, Huang, Lu, Jia, Ruicai, Zhang, Heng, Sheng, Chuanzhen, Fan, Guangwei, Wang, Boyuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 21.10.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Algorithms; Antennas; array pseudolite; beidou satellite navigation system (bds); cycle-slip; dilution of precision; doppler differential positioning; indoor positioning; Navigation systems; Receivers & amplifiers; Smartphones; Spread spectrum; Transmitters; Velocity
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s19204580

A Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS) cannot provide normal location services in an indoor environment because the signals are blocked by buildings. The Beidou satellite navigation system (BDS)/GPS indoor array pseudolite system is proposed to overcome the problems of indoor positioning with conventional pseudolite, such as time synchronization, ambiguity resolution and base stations. At the same time, an algorithm for Doppler differential positioning is proposed to improve the indoor positioning accuracy and the positioning coverage of the system, which uses the Doppler difference equation and Known Point Initialization (KPI) to determinate the velocity and position of the receiver. Experiments were conducted to verify the proposed system under different conditions; the average positioning error of the Doppler differential positioning algorithm was 7.86 mm in the kinematic test and 2.9 mm in the static test. The results show that BDS/GPS indoor array pseudolite system has the potential to make indoor positioning achieve sub-centimeter precision. Finally, the positioning error of the proposed algorithm is also analyzed, and the data tests show that the dilution of precision (DOP) and cycle- slips have a significant impact on the indoor positioning accuracy; a cycle-slip of a half-wavelength can cause positioning errors of tens of millimeters. Therefore, the Doppler-aided cycle-slip detection method (DACS) is proposed to detect cycle-slips of one cycle or greater than one, and the carrier phase double difference cycle-slip detection method (CPDD) is used to detect cycle slips of a half-wavelength.