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Analysis on the positioning precision of CAPS

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As a newly developed satellite positioning system, the Chinese Area Positioning System (CAPS) is a typical direct sequence spread spectrum ranging system like GPS. The positioning precision of such navigation signals depends on many factors, including the pseudo-code rate, the signal to noise ratio, the processing methods for tracking loops and so on. This paper describes the CAPS link budget, the solution approach for CAPS positioning, focusing on the autocorrelation function feature of C/A code signals. The CAPS signal measurement precision is studied by the software approach together with theoretical analysis of the range resolution. Because the conventional Delay Lock Loop (DLL) is vulnerable to the impact of noise, a narrow correlator and multiple correlators as well as the corresponding discrimination methods of phases are proposed, which improves the robustness of DLL and the code-phase resolution of the measurement. The results show that the improvement of the DLL structure and the discrimination method are the most important way to improve the ranging resolution. Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that a CAPS receiver could reach a 20-m positioning precision by using three satellites with a supported height from an altimeter.

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  1. National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China

    YuanFa Ji & XiYan Sun

  2. Applied Science and Technology College, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    YuanFa Ji & XiYan Sun

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Supported by the National Key Basic Research and Development Technology Plan (Grant No. 2007CB815500) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60802018)

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Ji, Y., Sun, X. Analysis on the positioning precision of CAPS. Sci. China Ser. G-Phys. Mech. Astron. 52, 328–332 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-009-0051-z

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