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Pseudorange Differential GPS-Based Relative Navigation for UAV Formation Flight

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Practical Applications of Intelligent Systems

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 279))

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In pseudorange differential GPS-based relative navigation, two linear models for UAV formation flight are designed, respectively, to simplify system equipment, reduce complexity of algorithm, and most of all weaken the effect of spatial-correlated errors such as satellite ephemeris error, ionosphere delay and troposphere delay. Above errors are analyzed and simulated to verify the feasibility of the method. Moreover, positioning deviation of lead plane is also under consideration in the system without base-station, demonstrating the effect of leader’s deviation on position accuracy for the system. Both theoretical and practical results for the two models conclude that the system without base-station can reach a better precision and is more cost effective.

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  1. School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China

    Hongyu Yang & Yandong Wang

  2. The No. 8 Research Institute of Air Force, PLA, Beijing, 100076, China

    Haifeng Fu & Jian Liu

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  1. College of Computer and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

    Zhenkun Wen

  2. School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China

    Tianrui Li

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Yang, H., Wang, Y., Fu, H., Liu, J. (2014). Pseudorange Differential GPS-Based Relative Navigation for UAV Formation Flight. In: Wen, Z., Li, T. (eds) Practical Applications of Intelligent Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 279. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54927-4_13

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