• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.351-360
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• 2022

Autonomous vehicles require precise knowledge of their position, velocity and orientation in all weather and traffic conditions in any time. And, these information is effectively used for path planning, perception, and control that are key factors for safety of vehicle driving. For this purpose, a high precision GNSS technology is widely adopted in autonomous vehicles as a core localization and navigation method. However, due to the lack of infrastructure as well as cost issue regarding GNSS correction data communication, only a few high precision GNSS technology will be available for future commercial autonomous vehicles. Recently, a high precision GNSS sensor that is based on a Broadcast-RTK system to dramatically reduce network maintenance cost by utilizing the existing broadcasting network is released. In this paper, we present the performance test result of the broadcast-RTK-based commercial high precision GNSS receiver to test the feasibility of the system for autonomous driving in Korea. Massive measurement campaigns covering of Korea region were performed, and the obtained measurements were analyzed in terms of ambiguity fixing rate, integer ambiguity loss recovery, time to retry ambiguity fixing, average correction information update rate as well as accuracy in comparison to other high precision systems.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제89권6호
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• pp.589-599
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• 2024

This study presents the usability of the high-rate single-frequency Precise Point Positioning (SF-PPP) technique based on 20 Hz Global Positioning Systems (GPS)-only observations in detecting dynamic motions. SF-PPP solutions were obtained from post-mission and real-time GNSS corrections. These include the International GNSS Service (IGS)-Final, IGS real-time (RT), real-time MADOCA (Multi-GNSS Advanced Demonstration tool for Orbit and Clock Analysis), and real-time products from the Australian/New Zealand satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS, known as SouthPAN). SF-PPP results were compared with LVDT (Linear Variable Differential Transformer) sensor and single-frequency relative positioning (SF-RP) solutions. The findings show that the SF-PPP technique successfully detects the harmonic motions, and the real-time products-based PPP solutions were as accurate as the final post-mission products. In the frequency domain, all GNSS-based methods evaluated in this contribution correctly detect the dominant frequency of short-term harmonic oscillations, while the differences in the amplitude values corresponding to the peak frequency do not exceed 1.1 mm. However, evaluations in the time domain show that SF-PPP needs high-pass filtering to detect accurate displacement since SF-PPP solutions include trends and low-frequency fluctuations, mainly due to atmospheric effects. Findings obtained in the time domain indicate that final, real-time, and MADOCA-based PPP results capture short-term dynamic behaviors with an accuracy ranging from 3.4 mm to 8.5 mm, and SBAS-based PPP solutions have several times higher RMSE values compared to other methods. However, after high-pass filtering, the accuracies obtained from PPP methods decreased to a few mm. The outcomes demonstrate the potential of the high-rate SF-PPP method to reliably monitor structural and earthquake-induced ground motions and vibration frequencies of structures.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.237-244
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• 2023

A signal generation simulator is an economical and useful solution in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver design and testing. A software-defined radio approach is widely used both in receivers and simulators, and its flexible structure to adopt to new signals is ideally suited to the testing of a receiver and signal processing algorithm in the signal design phase of a new satellite-based navigation system before the deployment of satellites in space. The generation of highly accurate delayed sampled codes is essential for generating signals in the simulator, where its sampling rate should be chosen to satisfy constraints such as Nyquist criteria and integer and non-commensurate properties in order not to cause any distortion of original signals. A high sampling rate increases the accuracy of code delay, but decreases the computational efficiency as well, and vice versa. Therefore, the selected sampling rate should be as low as possible while maintaining a certain level of code delay accuracy. This paper presents the lower limits of the sampling rate for GNSS signal generation simulators. In the simulation, two distinct code generation methods depending on the sampling position are evaluated in terms of accuracy versus computational efficiency to show the lower limit of the sampling rate for several GNSS signals.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제73권4호
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• pp.427-436
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• 2020

The use of final IGS precise orbit and clock products for high-rate GNSS-PPP proved its effectiveness in capturing dynamic displacement of engineering structures caused by earthquakes. However, the main drawback of using the final products is that they are available after approximately two weeks of data collection, which is not suitable for timely measures after an event. In this study, the use of ultra-rapid products (observed part), which are available after a few hours of data collection, and rapid products, which are available in less than 24 hrs, are investigated and their results are compared to the more precise final products. The tests are designed such that harmonic oscillations with different frequencies and amplitudes and ground motion of a simulated real earthquake are generated using a single axis shake table and the PPP was used to capture these movements by monitoring time-change of the table positions. To evaluate the accuracy of PPP using ultra-rapid, rapid and final products, their results were compared with relative GNSS positioning and LVDT (Linear Variable Differential Transformer) data, treated as reference. The results show that the high-rate GNSS-PPP solutions based on the three products can capture frequencies of harmonic oscillations and dynamic displacement with good accuracy. There were slight differences between ultra-rapid, rapid and final products, where some of the tested events indicated that the latter two produced are more accurate and provide better results compared to the ultra-rapid product for monitoring short-term dynamic displacements.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.2
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• pp.243-246
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• 2006

This study investigates the improvement in the theoretical success rate of the integer ambiguity resolution in GPS/GNSS carrier-phase positioning by using many visible satellites. It estimates the dependence of the rate on the baseline length in relative positioning under the condition of the use of double/triple-frequency navigation signals. The calculation results show that the use of 14 navigation satellites (i.e., seven GPS and seven Galileo ones) remarkably improves the success rate under the condition of very short baseline length, compared with the use of seven GPS ones. The numerical reliability of the calculated success rates is strictly tested by examining the tightness of the union and minimum-distance bounds to the rate. These bounds are also shown to be effective to investigate the realization of the high success rates.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2021

Due to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) modernization, the recently launched GNSS satellites transmit signals at various frequency bands of L1, L2 and L5. Considering the Korea Positioning System (KPS) signal and other GNSS augmentation signals in the future, there is a high probability of applying more complex communication techniques to the new GNSS signals. For the reason, GNSS receivers based on flexible Software Defined Radio (SDR) concept needs to be developed to evaluate various experimental communication techniques by accessing each signal processing module in detail. In this paper, we introduce a multi-constellation (GPS/Galileo/BeiDou) multi-band (L1/L2/L5) SDR by utilizing Ettus USRP N210. The signal reception module of the developed SDR includes down-conversion, analog-to-digital conversion, signal acquisition, and tracking. The down-conversion module is designed based on the super-heterodyne method fitted for MHz sampling. The signal acquisition module performs PRN code generation and FFT operation and the signal tracking module implements delay/phase/frequency locked loops only by software. In general, it is difficult to sample entire main lobe components of L5 band signals due to their higher chipping rate compared with L1 and L2 band signals. Experiment result shows that it is possible to acquire and track the under-sampled signals by the developed SDR.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.237-248
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• 2020

GNSS has been evolving dramatically in recent years. There are currently 6 GNSS (4 GNSS, AND 2 RNSS) constellations, which are GPS (USA), GLONASS (Russia), BeiDou (China), Galileo (EU), QZSS (Japan), and IRNSS (India). The Number of navigation satellites is expected to be over 150 by 2020. As the number of both constellations and satellites used for the improvement of positioning performance, high accuracy, and robustness of precise positioning is more promising. However, a large amount of the correction messages is required to support the augmentation system for the available satellites of all the constellations. Since bandwidth for the correction messages is generally limited, sending or scheduling the correction messages might be a critical issue in the near future. In this study, we analyze the relationship between the size of the bandwidth and Real-Time Kinematics (RTK) performance. Multiple Signal Messages (MSM), the only Radio Technical Commission for Maritimes (RTCM) message that supports multi-constellation GNSS, has been used for this assessment. Instead of the conventional method that broadcasts all the messages at the same time, we assign the MSM broadcasting interval for each constellation in 5 seconds. An open sky static and dynamic test for this study was conducted on the roof of Sejong University. Our results show that the RTK fixed position accuracy is not affected by the 5-second interval corrections, but the ambiguity fixing rate is degraded for poor DOP cases when RTK correction are transmitted intermittently.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.697-705
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• 2020

본 논문은 GNSS 자료를 이용하여 한반도 동남권 지역의 지각 변동 파라미터에 관한 내용이다. 한반도 동남권 지역에 5.0이상의 지진이 발생하였으며, 여러 가지 방법으로 지진의 위험성에 대하여 평가할 필요성이 있다. 포항과 경주의 장기적인 지각 운동 패턴을 밝히기 위해 탄성 이론을 이용하여 지각변동 파라미터를 도출하였다. CORS의 7년간의 GNSS 데이터를 Gamit/Globk S/W를 사용하여 정밀한 좌표를 취득하였다. 한반도 전체의 속도 벡터는 평균 31mm/yr로 나왔으며 방위각은 일반적으로 110°의 경향을 나타내었다. 연구의 주요 내용은 7년간 한반도 동남권 지역의 주응력의 방향은 몇가지 예외를 제외하면 전체적으로 ENE-WSW으로 나왔다. 최대 전단 변형률의 크기는 평균적으로 (0.11±0.07) μ/yr으로 일본 중부 지역의 약1/3이다. 이번 연구 결과를 고려하면 한반도 남부의 평균 최대전단응력은 타당한 것으로 간주된다. 주응력의 평균 방위각은 약 (85.4°±26.8°)이다. 양산단층을 기준으로 평균 방위각이 좌우 (73.2°±21.5°) 와 (105.2°± 17.0°)로 차이가 난다. 한반도 동남부 지역의 지진 발생 지역이 전단응력이 크게 나온 것은 주목할만 하다. 결론적으로 본 연구는 한반도 동남부 지각 변동 파라미터 특성을 반영하여 지진 재해 관리 연구에 기여할 수 있음을 알 수 있다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.9-21
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• 2008

이 논문은 위성항법시스템의 문제점들을 해결하기 위하여 GNSS 기반의 RF 수신단과 고정밀 측위 아키텍처 그리고 고감도 측위 아키텍처를 제안하였다. GNSS 기반의 RF 수신단 모델은 기존 GPS와 향후 사용되어질 갈릴레오의 항법정보데이터를 동시에 수신할 수 있는 구조를 가져야 한다. 따라서 GPS의 L1대역인 1575.42MHz와 갈릴레오의 El대역인 1575.42MHz, E5A대역인 1207.1MHz 그리고 E5B대역인 1176.45MHz를 동시에 수신할 수 있는 다중 밴드로 구성하였다. 고정밀 측위 아키텍처는 기존 상관기 구조가 가지고 있는 Early코드, Prompt코드, Late코드를 사용하는 1/2칩 이격 구조가 아닌 Early_early코드, Early_late코드, Prompt코드, Late_early코드, Late_late 코드 구조의 상관기를 제안하였다. 이렇듯 1/4칩 이격의 상관기 구조를 제안하여, 위성항법시스템으로부터 송신되는 신호의 부정확성으로 인해 생기는 C/A코드와의 동기 문제를 해결하였다. C/A코드와의 동기 문제는 차량용 항법시스템의 동기 획득 지연 시간 문제가 발생되어, 수신기의 성능 저하를 가져온다. 다음으로 고감도 측위 아키텍처는 20개의 코럴레이터(correlator)를 사용하여 비대칭 구조로 설계하여 수신 증폭률을 최대화하고, 잡음을 최소화하여 수신율을 향상시키도록 하였다. 위성항법시스템은 동일한 C/A코드를 20번 반복하여 전송한다. 따라서 동일한 C/A코드를 모두 사용할 수 있는 구조를 제안하였고, 적응형 구조를 가지고 있어, 주변 환경에 따라 코럴레이터의 수를 제한할 수 있어, 불필요한 시스템의 동작 지연 시간을 줄일 수 있다. 이러한 구조의 사용으로 동기 획득 지연 시간을 줄일 수 있고, 동기 추적의 연속성을 보장할 수 있다. 이는 위성항법시스템의 수신기 성능을 향상시키는 결과를 가져온다.