Enhanced Navigation, Robustness, and Safety Assurance for Autonomous Vehicles as Part of the Globalstar Connected Car Program

Sam Pullen, Jim Kilfeather, Jim Goddard, Tom Nowitzky, Brinda Shah, Wen Doong, Andy Welton, David Kagan, and Kerry Greer

Abstract:	This paper describes the means for providing enhanced navigation performance and integrity to automobiles within the “Connected Car” program being developed by Globalstar and its partners. The Connected Car program will use the Globalstar satellite constellation and terrestrial wireless networks to transmit and receive various types of data from automobiles. Among this data will be both wide-area (from satellites) and local-area (from terrestrial transmitters) GNSS satellite corrections and integrity information to help meet the demanding requirements for autonomous vehicle operation. In addition, ranging signals from Globalstar satellites will be used to speed up user navigation filter convergence and thus provide lower protection levels sooner than would otherwise be available.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 31st International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2018) September 24 - 28, 2018 Hyatt Regency Miami Miami, Florida
Pages:	1538 - 1565
Cite this article:	Pullen, Sam, Kilfeather, Jim, Goddard, Jim, Nowitzky, Tom, Shah, Brinda, Doong, Wen, Welton, Andy, Kagan, David, Greer, Kerry, "Enhanced Navigation, Robustness, and Safety Assurance for Autonomous Vehicles as Part of the Globalstar Connected Car Program," Proceedings of the 31st International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2018), Miami, Florida, September 2018, pp. 1538-1565. https://doi.org/10.33012/2018.16106
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