System and method for high-integrity detection and correction of cycle slip in a carrier phase-related system

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PATENT NO 6166683
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09026545

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A system and method of detecting and correcting for cycle slip in a GPS attitude determination system is presented. The method employs several techniques for detecting and correcting for faults in high integrity carrier phase-related applications. A delta single difference is used as a primary measurement residual in detecting cycle slip. The delta single difference represents the difference in phase of a carrier signal of a GPS satellite at two receiving antennas over two points in time. This delta single difference is compared to a detection failure threshold computed based on certain high integrity needs. Satellites showing a failure are excluded. In addition, satellites that fail a detectability test, indicating the inability to detect a fault, are pre-excluded from attitude solution computation. When re-resolving integer ambiguities associated with fault detection and correction, the method ensures that the integer ambiguity is resolvable via a resolvability algorithm before implementing a solution-based integer ambiguity resolution.

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ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONCOSTA MESA CA 92626

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Hwang, Patrick Y Marion, IA 23 600

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