Self-contained calibration determination by jointly solving the attitude estimation and calibration problem in the steering vector domain

Zorn, Soeren; Niestroj, Michael; Meurer, Michael; Wendler, Friederike; Cuntz, Manuel

doi:10.1109/navitec.2016.7849321

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“…Due to the reasons above, self-calibration or online calibration techniques have aroused much interest in the past few decades [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. In [10] Konovaltsev et al suggest to generate a GNSS like calibration signal, which is injected into the antenna elements.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A different approach, presented by Wang et al, makes use of some auxiliary antenna elements [16]. In [17,18,21] a calibration algorithm is presented, which utilizes the ephemeris from each satellite. A fairly new proposed method exploits the spatial sparsity of the incident signals using the Sparse Bayesian Learning method [19,20].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, in [21] it is simply assumed to be known. Moreover, some proposed methods either assume the gain and phase mismatches (approximately) to be known [11,[14][15][16][17]20] or neglect the effect of mutual coupling [10,18]. Others rely on an extensive set of antenna elements that is usually not practical for GNSS applications or assume that the distance between some antenna elements is large enough, so that mutual coupling can be neglected [13,14,16,19,20].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It does not make any assumption about the array geometry and it is also feasible for a small number of antenna elements. Similar to [17,18] the proposed method is based on the ephemeris from each satellite that is sent along with the navigation data. From the ephemeris an expected steering vector is derived, which is compared with the measured steering vector to estimate the unknown parameters.…”

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Soeren Zorn received his M.Sc. in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University in 2015. His bachelor and master thesis covered spoofing detection and mitigation. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at RWTH as a member of the Chair of Navigation. His research interests include multi antenna GNSS receivers, attitude and calibration estimation, robust interference and spoofing detection and mitigation. Michael Niestroj received his M.Sc. in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen Universtiy in 2016. His master thesis covered attitude and calibration estimation for multi antenna GNSS receivers. He is currently prusuing his Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen University as a member of the chair of Navigation. His research is focused on calibration methods for GNSS multi antenna systems. Marius Brachvogel received his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the RWTH Aachen University in 2016. Since then, he works as a research assistant for the Chair of Navigation. His current research includes GNSS interference and spoofing mitigation on distributed antenna systems. Stefano Caizzone rceived the M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Geoinformation from the University of Rome Toer Vergata, Italy, in 2009 and 2015, respectively. Since 2010, he is with the Antenna group of the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany, where he is responsible for the development of innovative miniaturized antennas. His main research interests concern small antennas for RFIDs and satellite navigation, antenna arrays and grids with enhanced sensing capabilities, controlled radiation pattern antennas for robust satellite navigation and high-performance antenna design for precise satellite navigation. He is a participant of RTCA SC-159, active in the definition of minimum operational performance specifications for avionic GNSS equipment. Michael Meurer received the diploma in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. After graduation, he joined the Research Group for Radio Communications at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, as a senior key researcher, where he was involved in various international and national projects in the field of communications and navigation both as project coordinator and as technical contributor. From 2003 till 2013, Dr. Meurer was active as a senior lecturer and Associate Professor (PD) at the same university. Since 2006 Dr. Meurer is with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Institute of Communications and Navigation, where he is the director of the Department of Navigation and of the center of excellence for satellite navigation. In addition, since 2013 he is a professor of electrical engineering and director of the Chair of Navigation at the RWTH Aachen University. His current research interests include GNSS signals, GNSS receivers, interference and spoofing mitigation and navigation for safety-critical applications.

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