Performance evaluation of Category III precision landing using airport pseudolites

Author

Progri, Ilir F. ; Michalson, William R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

262

Lastpage

269

Abstract

Further improvements are needed to fulfill the growing demand requirements for a Category III precision landing system architecture, which is completely contained on the airport property. The integrity of an on-airport local area augmentation system can be seriously threatened by failures of the DGPS systems even for a very short time. A pair of airport pseudolites (APLs) will be unable to maintain phase lock and provide navigation solution, if a satellite failure occurs during the navigation solution process. An autonomous system of five airport pseudolites can be used to perform Category III precision landing. The differential carrier phase among them can provide four pairs of independent observable measurements, which are sufficient to solve for integer ambiguity and thus they are able to provide a navigation solution. To insure integrity with a probability of misdetection of 0.001 a system of six airport pseudolites is analyzed and simulated in this paper

Keywords

Global Positioning System; aircraft landing guidance; Category III precision landing; DGPS; airport pseudolites; differential carrier phase; failures; integer ambiguity; navigation solution; on-airport local area augmentation system; performance evaluation; phase lock; satellite failure; Aircraft navigation; Airports; Analytical models; Computer architecture; Global Positioning System; Kinematics; Neutron spin echo; Phase measurement; Satellite navigation systems; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Position Location and Navigation Symposium, IEEE 2000

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5872-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLANS.2000.838312

Filename

838312