METHOD FOR OBTAINING PRECISE INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY OF GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS)

• US 20100164794A1
• Filed: 03/18/2009
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Altek Corporation
• Original Assignee: Altek Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Hung-Sheng
• Granted Patent: US 7,924,222 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/357.620
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/29 carrier including Doppler, related G01S19/246 takes precedence

Abstract

A method for obtaining a precise intermediate frequency for a global positioning system (GPS) is applied in a GPS receiver having a radio frequency (RF) module. Using a satellite signal received by the RF module, ephemeris data of a satellite is completely obtained, and present coordinate of the GPS receiver is calculated. First coordinate of the satellite at first time point and second coordinate of the satellite at second time point are calculated using the ephemeris data. Then, traveling speed of the satellite and projection value of the traveling speed on position vector from the first coordinate to the present coordinate are calculated using the first time point, the first coordinate, the second time point, and the second coordinate. Finally, the precise intermediate frequency is calculated using the signal frequency, a carrier frequency of the satellite, the projection value, and velocity of light.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining a precise intermediate frequency of a global positioning system (GPS), applied in a GPS receiver having a radio frequency (RF) module, the method comprising:

searching a satellite by using a designated frequency of the RF module;

receiving at least one satellite signal from the satellite with a signal frequency;

obtaining an ephemeris data of the satellite by using the received satellite signal;

calculating a present coordinate of the GPS receiver by using the received satellite signal;

calculating a first coordinate of the satellite at a first time point by using the ephemeris data;

obtaining a second coordinate of the satellite at a second time point by using the ephemeris data;

calculating a traveling speed of the satellite by using the first time point, the first coordinate, the second time point, and the second coordinate;

calculating a projection value of the traveling speed on a position vector from the first coordinate to the present coordinate;

multiplying a carrier frequency of the satellite by a ratio between the projection value and a velocity of light to obtain an influence value of the Doppler Effect; and

subtracting the influence value of the Doppler Effect from the signal frequency to obtain an intermediate frequency.

2. The method for obtaining a precise intermediate frequency of a GPS according to claim 1, wherein the carrier frequency is 1575.42 MHz.

3. The method for obtaining a precise intermediate frequency of a GPS according to claim 1, wherein the step of calculating the projection value of the traveling speed on the position vector from the first coordinate to the present coordinate comprises:

calculating the projection value by using the following equation;

Vd=Vs×

({right arrow over (SA)}·

{right arrow over (SS)}/|{right arrow over (SA)}||{right arrow over (SS′

)}|);

wherein, Vd is the projection value, Vs is the traveling speed, A is the present coordinate, S is the first coordinate, and S′

is the second coordinate.

4. The method for obtaining a precise intermediate frequency of a GPS according to claim 1, wherein the step of calculating the traveling speed of the satellite by using the first time point, the first coordinate, the second time point and the second coordinate comprises:

calculating a straight line distance between the first coordinate and the second coordinate;

calculating a time difference between the first time point and the second time point; and

dividing the straight line distance by the time difference to obtain the traveling speed.

5. The method for obtaining a precise intermediate frequency of a GPS according to claim 1, further comprising:

recording the intermediate frequency.

6. The method for obtaining a precise intermediate frequency of a GPS according to claim 5, further comprising:

determining whether the GPS receiver searches the satellite again or not; and

searching a plurality of satellites again according to the recorded intermediate frequency when the GPS receiver searches the satellite again.

7. The method for obtaining a precise intermediate frequency of a GPS according to claim 6, further comprising:

searching the plurality of satellites again according to the recorded intermediate frequency when the GPS receiver is warm started.

8. The method for obtaining a precise intermediate frequency of a GPS according to claim 6, further comprising:

searching the plurality of satellites again according to the recorded intermediate frequency when the GPS receiver is hot started.

9. The method for obtaining a precise intermediate frequency of a GPS according to claim 6, further comprising:

searching the plurality of satellites again according to the recorded intermediate frequency when the GPS receiver is waken up from a sleep state.

10. The method for obtaining a precise intermediate frequency of a GPS according to claim 1, wherein the step of calculating a present position of the GPS receiver by using the received satellite signal comprises:

calculating the present position of the GPS receiver by using a code delay of the satellite signal.