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Method of improving the determination of the attitude of a vehicle with the aid of satellite radionavigation signals

US7454289B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 17, 2002
Grant dateNov 18, 2008
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Expiry dateDec 17, 2024

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S19/22
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The method in accordance with the invention, implemented with the aid of at least one pair of antennas, consists in performing: a normalized spectral analysis before intercorrelation of the demodulated signals (I, Q), by the code and the carrier, a phase coherence resetting of the signals before recombination, a phase offset measurement carried out by a true intercorrelation of the homologous satellite pathways by interferometry of the two signals arising from one and the same satellite and received respectively by a pair of antennas, then in performing a reduction of the initial ambiguity removal search domain for the determination of attitude of a vehicle by interferometric GPS measurement and implementing a statistical test for the selection of the ambiguity.

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