Method of improving the determination of the attitude of a vehicle with the aid of satellite radionavigation signals
First Claim
1. A method of improving the determination of the attitude of a vehicle with the aid of radionavigation signals, implemented with the aid of at least one pair of antennas, comprising the steps of:
- producing a carrier phase loop by summing the two signals arising from a pair of antennas half a wavelength apart, these signals being rendered coherent before summation,carrying out a measurement of phase offset with regard to the signals arising from a pair of antennas several wavelengths apart, going via the frequency domain;
performing a reduction of the initial ambiguity removal search domain for the determination of attitude of a vehicle by interferometric GPS measurement; and
implementing a statistical test for the selection of the ambiguity.
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Abstract
The method in accordance with the invention, implemented with the aid of at least one pair of antennas, consists in performing: a normalized spectral analysis before intercorrelation of the demodulated signals (I, Q), by the code and the carrier, a phase coherence resetting of the signals before recombination, a phase offset measurement carried out by a true intercorrelation of the homologous satellite pathways by interferometry of the two signals arising from one and the same satellite and received respectively by a pair of antennas, then in performing a reduction of the initial ambiguity removal search domain for the determination of attitude of a vehicle by interferometric GPS measurement and implementing a statistical test for the selection of the ambiguity.
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1. A method of improving the determination of the attitude of a vehicle with the aid of radionavigation signals, implemented with the aid of at least one pair of antennas, comprising the steps of:
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producing a carrier phase loop by summing the two signals arising from a pair of antennas half a wavelength apart, these signals being rendered coherent before summation, carrying out a measurement of phase offset with regard to the signals arising from a pair of antennas several wavelengths apart, going via the frequency domain; performing a reduction of the initial ambiguity removal search domain for the determination of attitude of a vehicle by interferometric GPS measurement; and implementing a statistical test for the selection of the ambiguity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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