An Investigation of tightly-coupled UWB/low-cost GPS for vehicle-to-infrastructure relative positioning

Author

O´Keefe, Kyle ; Yuhang Jiang ; Petovello, Mark

Author_Institution

Dept. of Geomatics Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

fYear

2014

fDate

19-23 May 2014

Firstpage

1295

Lastpage

1300

Abstract

A method for tightly-coupling carrier-phase differential GPS with ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging for vehicle-to-infrastructure relative navigation is proposed. Relative position, velocity, clock errors, GPS phase ambiguities and UWB systematic errors are estimated using an extended Kalman filter. The method is tested with real data and evaluated in terms of position accuracy, GPS float ambiguity convergence, time to fix ambiguities, and correctness of the ambiguity solution. Performance with geodetic and consumer grade GPS receivers is compared. The effect of UWB operational range and the number of available UWB ranging sources is also evaluated.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; Kalman filters; nonlinear filters; ultra wideband communication; GPS float ambiguity convergence; GPS phase ambiguities; GPS receivers; UWB operational range; UWB ranging; UWB systematic errors; carrier-phase differential GPS; extended Kalman filter; low-cost GPS; position accuracy; ultra-wideband ranging; vehicle-to-infrastructure relative navigation; vehicle-to-infrastructure relative positioning; Accuracy; Clocks; Distance measurement; Global Positioning System; Receivers; Systematics; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Cincinnati, OH

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2034-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2014.6875799

Filename

6875799