PSEUDOLITE-BASED PRECISE POSITIONING SYSTEM WITH SYNCHRONISED PSEUDOLITES

• US 20090002230A1
• Filed: 09/08/2008
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chang-Don Kee, Doo-Hee Yun
• Original Assignee: Chang-Don Kee, Doo-Hee Yun
• Inventors: YUN, Doo-Hee, KEE, Chang-Don
• Application Number:
  US12/206,046
• Publication Number:
  US 20090002230A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/357.310
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 1/20 using a comparison of transit time of synchronised signals transmitted from non-directional antennas or antenna systems spaced apart, i.e. path-difference systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/11 wherein the cooperating elements are pseudolites or satellite radio beacon positioning system signal repeaters
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/46 the supplementary measurement being of a radio-wave signal type

Abstract

Pseudolite-based precise positioning system with synchronised pseudolites that can compute the position of a mobile station with slave pseudolites synchronised to master pseudolite is provided. Therefore pseudolite-based precise positioning system according to present invention does not need correction information of a reference station. A pseudolite-based precise positioning system for computing the position of a mobile station without correction information of a reference station, the pseudolite-based precise positioning system includes: master pseudolite with reference clock of the positioning system; at least one slave pseudolite having digitally controlled numerical controlled oscillator means; mobile station computing the position of itself based on the clock-synchronised signal from the master pseudolite and the slave pseudolite without correction information of a reference station; and clock synchronisation loop filter means having the digitally controlled numerical controlled oscillator means synchronise the clock of the slave pseudolite to the clock of the master pseudolite by transmitting synchronisation information U_k of the slave pseudolite to the digitally controlled numerical controlled oscillator means, clock synchronisation loop filter means generating the synchronisation information U_k based on the pseudorange information and carrier phase information received from the master pseudolite and the slave pseudolite.

Claims

1. A method for synchronizing a clock of a slave pseudolite with a reference clock of a master pseudolite in a precise navigation system, comprising the steps of:

synchronizing the clock of the slave pseudolite with the reference clock of the master pseudolite based on pseudorange of the master and the slave pseudolites;

performing a frequency synchronization process based on Doppler of the master and the slave pseudolites; and

performing a phase synchronization process based on the carrier-phase of the master and the slave pseudolites.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

generating a single differenced pseudorange and a single differenced carrier-phase based on pseudorange and carrier-phase of the master and the slave pseudolites; and

smoothing the single differenced pseudorange and the single differenced carrier-phase.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the step of synchronizing the clock of the slave pseudolite includes the step of performing a synchronization process of the master and slave pseudolites with respect to the single differenced pseudorange by changing the frequency change amount based on the switching boundary.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein the synchronization process of the master and slave pseudolites is terminated if a pseudo-synchronization error is less than 0.5 meter.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the frequency synchronization process is performed by using a single differenced Doppler, and the phase synchronization process is performed by using a carrier-phase synchronization error.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the clock of the slave pseudolite is controlled for a predetermined time so that the single differenced pseudorange is matched with a geometrical distance between the master pseudolite and the slave pseudolites.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, where the step of generating a single differenced pseudorange and a single differenced carrier-phase includes the steps of:

computing a single differenced range measurement _mΔ

_sφ

between the master pseudolite and the slave pseudolite(s) based on Equation 1 below; and

generating a clock synchronization error information _mΔ

_sb between the master pseudolite and the slave pseudolite(s) by using Equation 3 based on the single differenced range measurement _mΔ

_ssφ

between the master pseudolite and the slave pseudolite(s) and geometrical distance difference information _mΔ

_sd between the reference station and the master and slave pseudolites, which is predetermined by using Equation 2,

_mΔ

_sφ

≡

φ

_m−

φ

_s 

 

Eq. 1

_mΔ

_sd≡

d_r^m−

d_r^s 

 

Eq. 2

_mΔ

_sb≡

b_m−

b_s=_mΔ

_sφ

−

_mΔ

_sd 

 

Eq. 3

wherein _mΔ

_sφ

represents a single differenced range;

φ

_m denotes a carrier-phase of the master pseudolite;

φ

_m denotes a carrier-phase of the slave pseudolite;

_mΔ

_sd denotes a single differenced geometrical distance between the master pseudolite and the slave pseudolite;

d_r^m denotes a geometrical distance between the master pseudolite and the reference station;

d_r^s denotes a geometrical distance between the slave pseudolite and the reference station;

_mΔ

_sb denotes a clock synchronization error between the master pseudolite and the slave pseudolite;

b_m denotes a clock of the master pseudolite; and

b_s denotes a clock of the slave pseudolite.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the frequency synchronization process is performed by changing a bandwidth gradually according to amplitude of a single Doppler synchronization error.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the frequency synchronization process is terminated if a single Doppler synchronization error becomes less than 1.0 m/s.

10. A method for synchronizing a reference clock of a master slave with a clock of a slave pseudolite in a precise navigation system, comprising the steps of:

performing the clock synchronization process which synchronizes the clock of the slave pseudolite with the clock of the master pseudolite based on the single differenced pseudorange and carrier-phase of the master and slave pseudolites by controlling the clock of the slave pseudolite for a predetermined time so that the single differenced pseudorange is matched with a geometrical distance between the master pseudolite and the slave pseudolites;

performing a frequency synchronization process based on Doppler of the master and slave pseudolites by performing discreteness of a single differenced Doppler; and

performing a phase synchronization process based on the carrier-phase by performing discreteness of the carrier-phase synchronization error,

wherein the clock synchronization process, the frequency synchronization process and the phase synchronization process are sequentially performed.