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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (7): 1319-1328.

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A Carrier Tracking Algorithm Based on Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter

LI Limin1,2, GONG Wenbin2, LIU Huijie1,2, YU Jinpei1,2   

  1. 1. Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China;
    2. Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
  • Received:2011-09-05 Revised:2011-10-11 Online:2012-07-25 Published:2012-07-24
  • Supported by:
    Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai City (11ZR1435000, 10ZR1429100); Industrial Technology Innovation Service Platform of Shanghai City (10DZ2291700)

Abstract: Accurate carrier phase measurement is an important research focus in precise ranging. Because the traditional extended Kalman filter (EKF) has some limitations in dynamic environments with insufficient priori information, this paper proposes a carrier tracking algorithm based on adaptive extended Kalman filter (AEKF). This algorithm monitors the changes in innovations or residuals to correct the process and measurement noise covariances, and then adjusts the filter gain to control the weights between the predicted values and observed values in the filter results. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that this algorithm takes advantage of the statistical properties of observed values, overcomes the shortcomings of the traditional extended Kalman filter, and realizes better carrier tracking performance.

Key words: carrier phase, extended Kalman filter, innovation, residual, noise covariance

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