Localizability Analysis for GPS/Galileo Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring

Abstract

With the European Commission (EC) and European Space Agency's (ESA) plans to develop a new satellite navigation system, Galileo and the modernisation of GPS well underway the integrity of such systems is as much, if not more, of a concern as ever. Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) refers to the integrity monitoring of the GPS/Galileo navigation signals autonomously performed by the receiver independent of any external reference systems, apart from the navigation signals themselves. Quality measures need to be used to evaluate the RAIM performance at different locations and under various navigation modes, such as GPS only and GPS/Galileo integration, etc. The quality measures should include both the reliability and localizability measures. Reliability is used to assess the capability of GPS/Galileo receivers to detect the outliers while localizability is used to determine the capability of GPS/Galileo receivers to correctly identify the detected outlier from the measurements processed.

Within this paper, the fundamental equations required for effective outlier detection and identification algorithms are described together with the measures of reliability and localizability. Detailed simulations and analyses have been performed to assess the performances of GPS only and integrated GPS/Galileo navigation solutions with respect to reliability and localizability. Simulation results show that, in comparison with the GPS-only solution, the localizability of the integrated GPS/Galileo solution can be improved by up to 270%. The results also indicate an expectation of a considerable increase in the sensitivity to outliers and accuracy of their estimation with the augmentation of the Galileo system with the existing GPS system.