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Unscented Particle Filter for GPS Control Segment Precision Estimation

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8650-04-M-1633
Agency Tracking Number: F041-213-1594
Amount: $99,993.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF04-213
Solicitation Number: 2004.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2004
Award Year: 2004
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2004-04-01
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2005-01-01
Small Business Information
113 Clover Hill Lane
Harleysville, PA 19438
United States
DUNS: 869012732
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Chun Yang
 Principal Scientist
 (215) 513-9477
 chunyang@sigtem.com
Business Contact
 Chun Yang
Title: President
Phone: (215) 513-9477
Email: chunyang@sigtem.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

We propose to develop and apply an unscented particle filter for Global Positioning System (GPS) operations to improve Control Segment (CS) estimation and short-term prediction. GPS satellite orbital dynamics and GPS measurements are highly nonlinear. In the current implementation of GPS CS, both the state dynamics and measurements are linearized around a pre-computed reference trajectory in order to apply the Kalman filter for the state estimation and prediction. Instead of truncating the nonlinear functions to the first order as in the Kalman filter, the proposed unscented particle filter approximates the distribution of the state with a finite set of points (i.e., the particles) and then propagate these particles through the true nonlinear functions. Because the nonlinear functions are used without approximation, it is much simpler to implement and can generate better result. In Phase I, the proposed unscented particle filter will be formulated with the computational algorithms developed. We will use a computer simulation program consisting of the GPS constellation, the network of monitor stations, and the detailed models of orbital dynamics and GPS measurements to evaluate the algorithms. In Phase II, the recommended architecture and the validated algorithms will be implemented to process real GPS data for demonstration.

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