A solution to the ill-conditioned GPS positioning problem in an urban environment

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 135-145

  Chang, Tsai Hsin ^a   Wang, Li Sheng ^a   Chang, Fan Ren ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Altitude hold algorithm; Clock bias predictor; Constraint filtering method; GPS; Kinematic constraint; Pseudorange predictor

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOCKS; KINEMATICS; SATELLITES;

ALTITUDE-HOLD ALGORITHM; CLOCK BIAS PREDICTOR; CONSTRAINT-FILTERING METHOD; GPS; KINEMATIC CONSTRAINT; PSEUDORANGE PREDICTOR;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 61849179264     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2008.2011709     Document Type: Article

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