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Granted Patent B2
US 10,185,038 · App. 14/854,758 · Granted Jan 22, 2019

Integer ambiguity-fixed precise point positioning method and system

Inventor: Liu Xianglin (Leidschendam, NL)
Assignee: Fugro N.V.
G01S19/44G01S19/07G01S19/24
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Patent No.
US 10,185,038
App. No.
14/854,758
Granted
Jan 22, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for providing and applying Precise Point Positioning-Integer Ambiguity Resolution (PPP-IAR) corrections for a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). In a GNS signal correction system, PPP-IAR corrections (ambiguities plus receiver and satellite hardware delays) are calculated based on observation data (P i,a , Φ i,a ) of n satellites for individual reference stations using a functional model, and these individual PPP-IAR corrections are merged into one single and larger set of PPP-IAR corrections. In a broadcast system, the (merged) PPP-IAR corrections are encoded at a System Control Centre (SCC) and transmitted to mobiles. In a mobile system a similar functional model is used to calculate a correction Δx to an a priori position.

Claims (2993)

1. A method for providing Precise Point Positioning-Integer Ambiguity Resolution (PPP-IAR) corrections for a global navigation satellite system (GNSS), the method comprising:

calculating, by a processor, PPP-IAR corrections based on observation data P i,a , Φ i,a for n satellites received at one or more reference stations with known locations, using a functional model, the functional model being defined as:

[

P

1

,

a

P

2

,

a

Φ

1

,

a

Φ

2

,

a

]

=

[

M

a

e

n

γ

1

⁢

I

n

M

a

e

n

γ

2

⁢

I

n

M

a

e

n

-

γ

1

⁢

I

n

λ

1

⁢

I

n

M

a

e

n

-

γ

2

⁢

I

n

λ

2

⁢

I

n

]

⁡

[

T

a

t

a

I

a

A

1

,

a

,

zd

A

2

,

a

,

zd

]

,

wherein,

P i,a , Φ i,a is observation data at reference station a of the one or more reference stations,

a state vector including a zenith tropospheric delay term T a ,

t a is a clock bias term,

I a is an ionospheric delay term,

A is a set of hardware delay terms,

M a is a vector comprising tropospheric mapping function values between the reference station a and each of the n satellites,

γ i =f 1 2 /f i 2 , f i being the carrier frequency,

λ i is the carrier wavelength (λ i =c/f i , c being the speed of light),

e n is an n-unity vector with all ones as its elements,

I n is an identity matrix with 1 being the diagonal elements,

the hardware delay terms are A i,a,zd :=(a i,a 1 a i,a 2 . . . a i,a n ) T and

a

1

,

a

s

:=

N

1

,

a

s

+

1

λ

1

⁢

(

d

ϕ

1

,

a

-

d

ϕ

1

s

+

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

1

,

a

-

d

p

1

s

)

-

2

⁢

γ

1

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

2

,

a

-

d

p

2

s

)

)

a

2

,

a

s

:=

N

2

,

a

s

+

1

λ

2

⁢

(

d

ϕ

2

,

a

-

d

ϕ

2

s

+

2

⁢

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

1

,

a

-

d

p

1

s

)

-

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

2

,

a

-

d

p

2

s

)

)

,

N i,a s are integer ambiguities at reference station a to satellite s,

d p i ,a are code hardware delays for reference station a,

d ϕ i ,a are phase hardware delays for reference station a,

d p i s are code hardware delays for satellite s, and

d ϕ i s are phase hardware delays for satellite s, and

transmitting the PPP-IAR corrections including the hardware delay terms A to a mobile station.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising

deriving satellite-satellite single-differenced PPP-IAR corrections from individual reference stations;

deriving geometry-based wide-lane (WL) hardware delays and ionosphere-free combination of satellite-satellite single-differenced PPP-IAR corrections;

merging of WL hardware delays;

deriving and merging of L 1 , or L 2 or narrow-lane (NL) hardware delays;

transforming WL hardware delays and L 1 , L 2 or NL hardware delays to L 1 and L 2 hardware delays.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the geometry-based WL is calculated by a wl,a s,n =a 1,a s,n −a 2,a s,n ,

the WL hardware delays are separated from the nearest integers by b wl,a s,n :=a wl,a s,n−└a w1,a s,n ┘and the WL hardware delays of all reference stations are used to compute site-independent WL hardware delays using b wl s,n := b wl,j s,n .

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the L 1 and L 2 hardware delay is corrected using the difference between the float double-difference WL float ambiguity and its integer, according to

a

^

1

,

a

s

,

n

:=

a

1

,

a

s

,

n

+

f

1

f

1

-

f

2

⁢

c

wl

,

a

s

,

n

⁢

⁢

and

⁢

⁢

a

^

2

,

a

s

,

n

:=

a

2

,

a

s

,

n

+

f

1

f

1

-

f

2

⁢

c

wl

,

a

s

,

n

,

⁢

wherein

c

wl

,

a

s

,

n

:=

a

wl

,

a

s

,

n

-

(

b

wl

s

-

b

wl

n

)

-

N

wl

,

a

s

,

n

⁢

⁢

and

⁢

⁢

N

wl

,

a

s

,

n

:=

[

a

wl

,

a

s

,

n

-

(

b

wl

s

-

b

wl

n

)

]

.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the NL hardware delay is derived using the ionosphere-free combinations and the WL integer ambiguities:

a

nl

,

a

s

,

n

:=

a

if

,

a

s

,

n

-

f

2

f

1

-

f

2

⁢

N

wl

,

a

s

,

n

⁢

⁢

wherein

⁢

⁢

a

if

,

a

s

,

n

=

f

1

·

a

1

,

a

s

,

n

-

f

2

·

a

2

,

a

s

,

n

f

1

-

f

2

.

6. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the PPP-IAR corrections for broadcast to the mobile station comprise:

the L 1 and L 2 hardware delays; or

the WL and L 1 hardware delays; or

the WL and NL hardware delays.

7. A method for applying Precise Point Positioning - Integer Ambiguity Resolution (PPP-IAR) corrections and position determination of a mobile station r, the method comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, PPP-IAR corrections from a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal correction system, the PPP-IAR corrections including hardware delay terms A;

acquiring, at the one or more processors, GNSS data including pseudo range mobile observations and carrier phase mobile observations from a plurality of GNSS satellites;

applying, by the one or more processors, the PPP-IAR corrections to a functional model, the functional model being defined as:

[

P

1

,

r

P

2

,

r

Φ

1

,

r

Φ

2

,

r

]

=

[

μ

r

M

r

e

n

γ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

e

n

γ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

⁢

e

n

-

γ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

λ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

⁢

e

n

-

γ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

λ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

]

⁢

[

Δ

⁢

⁢

x

r

T

r

t

p

1

,

r

t

p

2

,

r

t

ϕ

1

,

r

t

ϕ

2

,

r

I

r

,

sd

A

1

,

r

,

sd

A

2

,

r

,

sd

]

wherein,

P i,r , Φ 1,r is observation data at the mobile station r,

a state vector comprising an a priori position correction Δx,

T r is a zenith tropospheric delay term,

t p1,r , t p2,r , t Φ1,r , t Φ2,r are clock bias terms,

I r is ionospheric delay terms,

M r is a vector comprising tropospheric mapping function values between the mobile station r and each of the n satellites,

γ i =f 1 2 /f i 2 , f i being the carrier frequency,

λ i is the carrier wavelength (λ i =c/f i , c being the speed of light),

e n is an n-unity vector with all ones as its elements,

μ

r

:=

(

μ

r

1

μ

r

2

…

μ

r

n

)

T

t

p

1

,

r

:=

t

r

+

γ

1

⁢

I

~

r

n

t

p

2

,

r

:=

t

r

+

γ

2

⁢

I

~

r

n

t

ϕ

1

,

r

:=

t

r

-

γ

1

⁢

I

~

r

n

+

a

1

,

r

n

t

ϕ

2

,

r

:=

t

r

-

γ

2

⁢

I

~

r

n

+

a

2

,

r

n

I

r

,

sd

:=

(

I

~

r

1

,

n

I

~

r

2

,

n

…

I

~

r

n

-

1

,

n

)

T

A

i

,

r

,

sd

:=

(

a

i

,

r

1

,

n

a

i

,

r

2

,

n

…

a

i

,

r

n

-

1

,

n

)

T

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

:=

(

I

n

-

1

0

n

-

1

T

)

=

(

1

⋱

1

0

…

0

)

,

μ r s is the unit vector of line-of-sight between the mobile station r and satellite s

a

1

,

r

s

:=

N

1

,

r

s

+

1

λ

1

⁢

(

d

ϕ

1

,

r

-

d

ϕ

1

s

+

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

1

,

r

-

d

p

1

s

)

-

2

⁢

γ

1

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

2

,

r

-

d

p

2

s

)

)

a

2

,

r

s

:=

N

2

,

r

s

+

1

λ

2

⁢

(

d

ϕ

2

,

r

-

d

ϕ

2

s

+

2

⁢

γ

1

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

1

,

r

-

d

p

1

s

)

-

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

2

,

r

-

d

p

2

s

)

)

⁢

I

~

r

s

,

n

:=

I

~

r

s

-

I

~

r

n

=

I

r

s

-

I

r

n

+

γ

1

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

-

d

p

1

s

+

d

p

1

n

+

d

p

2

s

-

d

p

2

n

)

⁢

a

1

,

r

s

,

n

:=

a

1

,

r

s

-

a

1

,

r

n

=

N

1

,

r

s

,

n

-

1

λ

1

⁢

(

d

ϕ

1

s

,

n

+

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

d

p

1

s

,

n

-

2

⁢

γ

1

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

d

p

2

s

,

n

)

⁢

a

2

,

r

s

,

n

:=

a

2

,

r

s

-

a

2

,

r

n

=

N

2

,

r

s

,

n

-

1

λ

2

⁢

(

d

ϕ

2

s

,

n

+

2

⁢

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

d

p

1

s

,

n

-

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

d

p

2

s

,

n

)

,

and

N i,r s are integer ambiguities for mobile station r to satellite s,

N i,r s,n are satellite-differenced integer ambiguities for mobile station r and between satellite s and reference satellite n,

d p i ,r are code hardware delays for mobile station r,

d ϕ i ,r are phase hardware delays for mobile station r,

d p i s are code hardware delays for satellite s,

d ϕ i s are phase hardware delays for satellite,

d p i s,n are satellite-differenced code hardware delays between satellite s and reference satellite n, and

d ϕ i s,n are satellite-differenced phase hardware delays between satellite s and reference satellite n and

wherein the PPP-IAR corrections are applied to the functional model.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the functional model is augmented with a stochastic model according to

E

⁢

{

y

}

=

(

A

B

)

⁢

(

a

b

)

D

⁢

{

y

}

=

Q

y

wherein Q y is the covariance matrix of y, E{•} and D{•}denote expectation and dispersion, respectively, and

y

:=

[

P

1

,

r

P

2

,

r

Φ

1

,

r

Φ

2

,

r

]

,

A

:=

[

λ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

λ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

]

,

⁢

B

:=

[

μ

r

M

r

e

n

γ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

e

n

γ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

⁢

e

n

-

γ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

⁢

e

n

-

γ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

]

,

⁢

a

:=

[

A

1

,

r

,

sd

A

2

,

r

,

sd

]

,

b

:=

[

Δ

⁢

⁢

x

r

T

r

t

p

1

,

r

t

p

2

,

r

t

ϕ

1

,

r

t

ϕ

2

,

r

I

r

,

sd

]

and a least squares solution is calculated accordingly.

9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the received PPP-IAR corrections are applied to the phase observations:

y

:=

[

P

1

,

r

P

2

,

r

Φ

1

,

r

-

λ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

⁢

A

1

,

sd

Φ

2

,

r

-

λ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

⁢

A

2

,

sd

]

,

and the ambiguity parameters are:

a

:=

[

N

1

,

r

N

2

,

r

]

wherein N i,r =A i,r,sd −A i,sd =(N i,r 1,n N i,r 2,n . . . . N i,r n−1,n ) T

and a solution is calculated using an integer-fixing scheme.

10. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the received PPP-IAR corrections are alternatively applied to estimated float ambiguities, resulting in

â′=â−A,

wherein A is the vector of PPP-IAR corrections,

a fixing scheme is applied to â′ and Q ââ , resulting in integer ambiguities ă′, and

an ambiguity fixed solution of the rest parameters is then given by

ă=â−Q {circumflex over (b)}â Q ââ −1 (â′−ă′).

11. A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal correction system for estimating and transmitting Precise Point Positioning-integer Ambiguity Resolution (PPP-IAR) corrections to a mobile station, the GNSS signal correction system comprising:

one or more reference stations including a GNSS receiver configured to acquire GNSS data including pseudo range system observations P a and carrier phase system observations Φ a from a plurality of GNSS satellites transmitted over multiple epochs;

one or more processors, configured to receive the GNSS data from the multiple reference stations in real time, and calculate the PPP-IAR corrections based on observation data P i,a , Φ i,a for n satellites received at one or more reference stations with known locations, using a functional model, the functional model being defined as:

[

P

1

,

a

P

2

,

a

Φ

1

,

a

Φ

2

,

a

]

=

[

M

a

e

n

γ

1

⁢

I

n

M

a

e

n

γ

2

⁢

I

n

M

a

e

n

-

γ

1

⁢

I

n

λ

1

⁢

I

n

M

a

e

n

-

γ

2

⁢

I

n

λ

2

⁢

I

n

]

⁡

[

T

a

t

a

I

a

A

1

,

a

,

zd

A

2

,

a

,

zd

]

,

wherein

P i,a , Φ i,a observation data at reference station a of the one or more reference stations,

a state vector including a zenith tropospheric delay term T a ,

t a , is a clock bias term,

I a is an ionospheric delay term,

A is a set of hardware delay terms,

M a is a vector comprising tropospheric mapping function values between the reference station a and each of the n satellites,

γ i =f 1 2 /f i 2 ,f i being the carrier frequency,

λ i is the carrier wavelength (λ i =c/f i , c being the speed of light),

e n is an n-unity vector with all ones as its elements,

I n is an identity matrix with 1 being the diagonal elements,

the hardware delay terms are A i,a,zd :=(a i,a 1 a i,a 2 . . . a i,a n ) T and

a

1

,

a

s

:=

N

1

,

a

s

+

1

λ

1

⁢

(

d

ϕ

1

,

a

-

d

ϕ

1

s

+

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

1

,

a

-

d

p

1

s

)

-

2

⁢

γ

1

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

2

,

a

-

d

p

2

s

)

)

a

2

,

a

s

:=

N

2

,

a

s

+

1

λ

2

⁢

(

d

ϕ

2

,

a

-

d

ϕ

2

s

+

2

⁢

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

1

,

a

-

d

p

1

s

)

-

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

2

,

a

-

d

p

2

s

)

)

,

N i,a s are integer ambiguities at reference station a to satellite s,

d p i ,a are code hardware delays for reference station a,

d ϕ i ,a are phase hardware delays for reference station a,

d p i s are code hardware delays for satellite s, and

d ϕ i s are phase hardware delays for satellites;

a signal transmitter connected to the one or more processors configured to transmit the PPP-IAR corrections to the mobile station.

12. A mobile station, comprising:

a mobile global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver configured to acquire GNSS data including pseudo range mobile observations P r and carrier phase mobile observations Φ r from a plurality of GNSS satellites transmitted over multiple epochs,

a mobile signal receiver configured to receive GNSS corrections,

a mobile processing unit connected to the mobile GNSS receiver and the mobile signal receiver, the mobile station is configured to:

receive Precise Point Positioning-Integer Ambiguity Resolution (PPP-IAR) corrections from a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal correction system, the PPP-IAR corrections including hardware delay terms A;

acquire GNSS data including pseudo range mobile observations and carrier phase mobile observations from the plurality of GNSS satellites;

apply the PPP-IAR, corrections to a functional model, the functional model being defined as:

[

P

1

,

r

P

2

,

r

Φ

1

,

r

Φ

2

,

r

]

=

[

μ

r

M

r

e

n

γ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

e

n

γ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

e

n

-

γ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

γ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

e

n

-

γ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

γ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

]

⁢

[

Δ

⁢

⁢

x

r

T

r

t

p

1

,

r

t

p

2

,

r

t

ϕ

1

,

r

t

ϕ

2

,

r

I

r

,

sd

A

1

,

r

,

sd

A

2

,

r

,

sd

]

wherein,

P i,r , Φ i,r is observation data at the mobile station r,

a state vector comprising an a priori position correction Δx,

T r is a zenith tropospheric delay term,

t p1,r , t p2,r , t ϕ1,r , t ϕ2,r are dock bias terms,

I r is ionospheric delay terms,

M r is a vector comprising tropospheric mapping function values between the mobile station r and each of the n satellites,

γ i =f 1 2 /f i 2 , f i being the carrier frequency,

λ i is the carrier wavelength (λ i =c/f i , c being the speed of light),

e n is an n-unity vector with all ones as its elements,

μ

r

:=

(

μ

r

1

μ

r

2

…

μ

r

n

)

T

t

p

1

,

r

:=

t

r

+

γ

1

⁢

I

~

r

n

t

p

2

,

r

:=

t

r

+

γ

2

⁢

I

~

r

n

t

ϕ

1

,

r

:=

t

r

-

γ

1

⁢

I

~

r

n

+

a

1

,

r

n

t

ϕ

2

,

r

:=

t

r

-

γ

2

⁢

I

~

r

n

+

a

2

,

r

n

I

r

,

sd

:=

(

I

~

r

1

,

n

I

~

r

2

,

n

…

I

~

r

n

-

1

,

n

)

T

A

i

,

r

,

sd

:=

(

a

i

,

r

1

,

n

a

i

,

r

2

,

n

…

a

i

,

r

n

-

1

,

n

)

T

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

:=

(

I

n

-

1

0

n

-

1

T

)

=

(

1

⋱

1

0

…

0

)

,

μ r s the unit vector of line-of-sight between the mobile station r and satellite s

a

1

,

r

s

:=

N

1

,

r

s

+

1

λ

1

⁢

(

d

ϕ

1

,

r

-

d

ϕ

1

s

+

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

1

,

r

-

d

p

1

s

)

-

2

⁢

γ

1

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

2

,

r

-

d

p

2

s

)

)

a

2

,

r

s

:=

N

2

,

r

s

+

1

λ

2

⁢

(

d

ϕ

2

,

r

-

d

ϕ

2

s

+

2

⁢

γ

1

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

1

,

r

-

d

p

1

s

)

-

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

d

p

2

,

r

-

d

p

2

s

)

)

⁢

I

~

r

s

,

n

:=

I

~

r

s

-

I

~

r

n

=

I

r

s

-

I

r

n

+

γ

1

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

(

-

d

p

1

s

+

d

p

1

n

+

d

p

2

s

-

d

p

2

n

)

⁢

a

1

,

r

s

,

n

:=

a

1

,

r

s

-

a

1

,

r

n

=

N

1

,

r

s

,

n

-

1

λ

1

⁢

(

d

ϕ

1

s

,

n

+

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

d

p

1

s

,

n

-

2

⁢

γ

1

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

d

p

2

s

,

n

)

⁢

a

2

,

r

s

,

n

:=

a

2

,

r

s

-

a

2

,

r

n

=

N

2

,

r

s

,

n

-

1

λ

2

⁢

(

d

ϕ

2

s

,

n

+

2

⁢

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

d

p

1

s

,

n

-

γ

1

+

γ

2

γ

1

-

γ

2

⁢

d

p

2

s

,

n

)

,

and

N i,r s are integer ambiguities for mobile station r to satellite s,

N i,r s,n are satellite-differenced integer ambiguities for mobile station r and between satellite s and reference satellite n,

d p i ,r are code hardware delays for mobile station r,

d ϕ i ,r are phase hardware delays for mobile station r,

d p i ,r s are code hardware delays for satellite s,

d ϕ i s are phase hardware delays for satellite,

d p i s,n are satellite-differenced code hardware delays between satellite s and reference satellite n, and

d ϕ i s,n are satellite-differenced phase hardware delays between satellite s and reference satellite n; and

wherein the PPP-IAR corrections are applied to the functional model.

13. The GNSS signal correction system to claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

derive satellite-satellite single-differenced PPP-IAR corrections from individual reference stations;

derive geometry-based wide-lane (WL) hardware delays and ionosphere-free combination of satellite-satellite single-differenced PPP-IAR corrections;

merge of WL hardware delays;

derive and merge of L 1 , or L 2 or narrow-lane (NL) hardware delays;

transform WL hardware delays and L 1 , L 2 or NL hardware delays to L 1 and L 2 hardware delays.

14. The GNSS signal correction system to claim 13 , wherein the geometry-based WL is calculated by a wl,a s,n =a 1,a s,n −a 2,a s,n ,

the WL hardware delays are separated from the nearest integers by b wl,a s,n :=a wl,a s,n −└a wl,a s,n ┘, and the WL hardware delays of all reference stations are used to compute site-independent WL hardware delays using b wl s,n := b wl,j s,n .

15. The GNSS signal correction system to claim 13 , wherein the L 1 and L 2 hardware delay is corrected using the difference between the float double-difference WL float ambiguity and its integer, according to

a

^

1

,

a

s

,

n

:=

a

1

,

a

s

,

n

+

f

2

f

1

-

f

2

⁢

c

wl

,

a

s

,

n

⁢

⁢

and

⁢

⁢

a

^

2

,

a

s

,

n

:=

a

2

,

a

s

,

n

+

f

1

f

1

-

f

2

⁢

c

wl

,

a

s

,

n

,

⁢

wherein

c

wl

,

a

s

,

n

:=

a

wl

,

a

s

,

n

-

(

b

wl

s

-

b

wl

n

)

-

N

wl

,

a

s

,

n

⁢

⁢

and

⁢

⁢

N

wl

,

a

s

,

n

:=

⌊

a

wl

,

a

s

,

n

-

(

b

wl

s

-

b

wl

n

)

⌋

.

16. The GNSS signal correction system to claim 13 , wherein the NL hardware delay is derived using the ionosphere-free combinations and the WL integer ambiguities:

a

nl

,

a

s

,

n

:=

a

if

,

a

s

,

n

-

f

2

f

1

-

f

2

⁢

N

wl

,

a

s

,

n

⁢

⁢

wherein

⁢

⁢

a

if

,

a

s

,

n

=

f

1

·

a

1

,

a

s

,

n

-

f

2

·

a

2

,

a

s

,

n

f

1

-

f

2

.

17. The GNSS signal correction system to claim 13 , wherein the PPP-IAR corrections for broadcast to the mobile station comprise:

the L 1 and L 2 hardware delays; or

the WL and L 1 hardware delays; or

the WL and NL hardware delays.

18. The mobile station according to claim 12 , wherein the functional model is augmented with a stochastic model according to

E

⁢

{

y

}

=

(

A

B

)

⁢

(

a

b

)

D

⁢

{

y

}

=

Q

y

wherein Q y is the covariance matrix of y, E{•} and D{•} denote expectation and dispersion, respectively, and

y

:=

[

P

1

,

r

P

2

,

r

Φ

1

,

r

Φ

2

,

r

]

,

A

:=

[

λ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

λ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

]

,

⁢

B

:=

[

μ

r

M

r

e

n

γ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

e

n

γ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

e

n

-

γ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

μ

r

M

r

e

n

-

γ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

]

,

⁢

a

:=

[

A

1

,

r

,

sd

A

2

,

r

,

sd

]

,

b

:=

[

Δ

⁢

⁢

x

r

T

r

t

p

1

,

r

t

p

2

,

r

t

ϕ

1

,

r

t

ϕ

2

,

r

I

r

,

sd

]

and a least squares solution is calculated accordingly.

19. The mobile stations according to claim 12 , wherein the received PPP-IAR corrections are applied to the phase observations:

y

:=

[

P

1

,

r

P

2

,

r

Φ

1

,

r

-

λ

1

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

⁢

A

1

,

sd

Φ

2

,

r

-

λ

2

⁢

E

n

×

(

n

-

1

)

⁢

A

2

,

sd

]

,

and the ambiguity parameters are:

a

:=

[

N

1

,

r

N

2

,

r

]

wherein N i,r =A i,r,sd −A i,sd =(N i,r 1,n N i,r 2,n . . . N i,r n−1,n ) T

and a solution is calculated using an integer-fixing scheme.

20. The mobile stations according to claim 12 , wherein the received PPP-IAR corrections are alternatively applied to estimated float ambiguities, resulting in

â′=â−A,

wherein A is the vector of PPP-IAR corrections,

a fixing scheme is applied to â′ and Q ââ , resulting in integer ambiguities ň′, and an ambiguity fixed solution of the rest parameters is then given by

{hacek over (b)}={circumflex over (b)}−Q {circumflex over (b)}â Q ââ −1 (â′−{hacek over (a)}′).

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