Precision Limits of Low-Energy GNSS Receivers

dc.creatorPesyna, Kenneth M. Jr
dc.creatorHeath, Robert W. Jr.
dc.creatorHumphreys, Todd E.
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-25T18:51:33Z
dc.date.available2018-01-25T18:51:33Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractLimitations on position-time precision are analyzed in energy-constrained GNSS receivers. The goal of this work is to determine the combination of sampling rate, number of quantization bits, number of satellites tracked, and coherent integration time that maximizes the position-time precision under a fixed low-energy constraint. In this paper, only the measurement errors due to spectrally flat Gaussian thermal noise are considered. Analytical expressions relating the foregoing parameters to precision and energy consumption are developed. Based on these expressions, a constrained optimization problem is formulated. Optimal solutions indicate that under a tight energy constraint energy should be allocated toward increasing the sampling rate at the expense of the other parameters. Moreover, the quantization resolution should be set above 1-bit only under an energy surplus. Interestingly, optimum settings under tight energy constraints approximately match those chosen by the designers of energyefficient commercial GNSS receivers.en_US
dc.description.departmentAerospace Engineeringen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T27D2QQ45
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/63221
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofRadionavigation Laboratory Conference Proceedingsen_US
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectPesynaen_US
dc.subjectHeathen_US
dc.subjectHumphreysen_US
dc.subjectLow-energy GNSSen_US
dc.titlePrecision Limits of Low-Energy GNSS Receiversen_US
dc.typeConference paperen_US

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