Accurate Position and Attitude Determination in a Severe Multipath Environment Using an Uncalibrated Multi-Antenna-System

Soeren Zorn, Christian Siebert, Michael Niestroj, Marius Brachvogel, Michael Meurer

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Abstract:	A novel proposal is made for the accurate determination of position and antenna attitude of a multi-antenna GNSS receiver in a multipath environment. In contrast to previous work no calibration of the gain and phase mismatches and crosstalk effects, that occur in the RF-Frontend, are necessary. This allows for the usage of heavily miniaturized RF-Frontends with highly integrated systems with non-negligible crosstalks and tolerances. The novel algorithm treats the estimation of antenna attitude, the multipath detection and mitigation as well as the calibration as a coupled problem and estimates the relevant unknowns in a joint procedure. Due to this approach a reliable position estimate can be determined even in challenging conditions without the need for very accurately calibrated - or nearly “ideal” hardware components.
Published in:	2020 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) April 20 - 23, 2020 Hilton Portland Downtown Portland, Oregon
Pages:	1247 - 1255
Cite this article:	Zorn, Soeren, Siebert, Christian, Niestroj, Michael, Brachvogel, Marius, Meurer, Michael, "Accurate Position and Attitude Determination in a Severe Multipath Environment Using an Uncalibrated Multi-Antenna-System," 2020 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), Portland, Oregon, April 2020, pp. 1247-1255. https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS46316.2020.9110151
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