A new approach for improving reliability of personal navigation devices under harsh GNSS signal conditions

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 15221-15241

  Dhital, Anup ^a   Bancroft, Jared B ^a   Lachapelle, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Adaptive filter; Doppler measurement; IMU; Multipath; Personal navigation devices; Reliability; Student's t distribution; Variational Bayes

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER MEASUREMENT; IMU; MULTIPATH; PERSONAL NAVIGATION; STUDENT'S T DISTRIBUTION; VARIATIONAL BAYES;

ACCELEROMETERS; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DATA HANDLING; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; NAVIGATION; RELIABILITY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84887400250     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s131115221     Document Type: Article

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