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- Patent Title: System for determining high-integrity navigation solutions via optimal partial fixing of floating-point integer ambiguities
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Application No.: US17564906Application Date: 2021-12-29
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Publication No.: US11644578B2Publication Date: 2023-05-09
- Inventor: Huan T. Phan , Gary A. McGraw , Michael J. Armatys
- Applicant: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US IA Cedar Rapids
- Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IA Cedar Rapids
- Agency: Suiter Swantz pc llo
- The original application number of the division: US16369567 2019.03.29
- Main IPC: G01S19/41
- IPC: G01S19/41 ; G01S19/44 ; G01S19/55 ; G01S19/15 ; G01S19/07 ; G01S19/20 ; G01S19/40

Abstract:
A system and for determining precision navigation solutions decorrelates GPS carrier-phase ambiguities derived from multiple-source GPS information via Least-squares AMBiguity Decorrelation Adjustment (LAMBDA) algorithms. The set of decorrelated floating-point ambiguities is used to compute protection levels and the probability of almost fix (PAF), or the probability that the partial almost-fix solution corresponding to the decorrelated ambiguities is within the region of correctly-fixed or low-error almost-fixed ambiguities. While the PAF remains below threshold and the protection levels remain below alert levels, the optimal navigation solution (floating-point, partial almost-fix, or fully fixed) is generated by fixing the decorrelated ambiguities are one at a time in the LAMBDA domain and replacing the appropriate carrier-phase ambiguities with the corresponding fixed ambiguities, reverting to the last solution if PAF reaches the threshold or if protection levels reach the alert levels.
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