Flight-Test Evaluation of Kinematic Precise Point Positioning of Small UAVs
Joint Authors
Gross, Jason N.
Watson, Ryan M.
D’Urso, Stéphane
Gu, Yu
Source
International Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-07-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Abstract EN
An experimental analysis of Global Positioning System (GPS) flight data collected onboard a Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (SUAV) is conducted in order to demonstrate that postprocessed kinematic Precise Point Positioning (PPP) solutions with precisions approximately 6 cm 3D Residual Sum of Squares (RSOS) can be obtained on SUAVs that have short duration flights with limited observational periods (i.e., only ~≤5 minutes of data).
This is a significant result for the UAV flight testing community because an important and relevant benefit of the PPP technique over traditional Differential GPS (DGPS) techniques, such as Real-Time Kinematic (RTK), is that there is no requirement for maintaining a short baseline separation to a differential GNSS reference station.
Because SUAVs are an attractive platform for applications such as aerial surveying, precision agriculture, and remote sensing, this paper offers an experimental evaluation of kinematic PPP estimation strategies using SUAV platform data.
In particular, an analysis is presented in which the position solutions that are obtained from postprocessing recorded UAV flight data with various PPP software and strategies are compared to solutions that were obtained using traditional double-differenced ambiguity fixed carrier-phase Differential GPS (CP-DGPS).
This offers valuable insight to assist designers of SUAV navigation systems whose applications require precise positioning.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Gross, Jason N.& Watson, Ryan M.& D’Urso, Stéphane& Gu, Yu. 2016. Flight-Test Evaluation of Kinematic Precise Point Positioning of Small UAVs. International Journal of Aerospace Engineering،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1104969
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Gross, Jason N.…[et al.]. Flight-Test Evaluation of Kinematic Precise Point Positioning of Small UAVs. International Journal of Aerospace Engineering No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1104969
American Medical Association (AMA)
Gross, Jason N.& Watson, Ryan M.& D’Urso, Stéphane& Gu, Yu. Flight-Test Evaluation of Kinematic Precise Point Positioning of Small UAVs. International Journal of Aerospace Engineering. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1104969
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1104969