Integrity Monitoring in Navigation Systems: Fault Detection and Exclusion RAIM Algorithm Implementation

Alban Rakipi^*, Bexhet Kamo, Shkelzen Cakaj, Vladi Kolici, Algenti Lala, Ilir Shinko

Faculty of Information Technology, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania.

DOI: 10.4236/jcc.2015.36004                

Abstract

The use of GPS is becoming increasingly popular for real-time navigation systems. To ensure that satellite failures are detected and excluded at the receiver is of high importance for the integrity of the satellite navigation system. The focus of this paper is to implement a fault detection and exclusion algorithm in a software GPS receiver in order to provide timely warnings to the user when it is not advisable to use the GPS system for navigation. The GPS system currently provides some basic integrity information to users via the navigation message, but it is not timely enough for safety-critical applications. RAIM is a means of providing integrity with the capability of detecting when a satellite failure or a measurement error has occurred. It is the simplest and most cost effective technique for integrity monitoring. After applying the iterative fault detection and the exclusion algorithm, a significant improvement in positioning accuracy is achieved.

Keywords

Algorithm, GPS, Integrity Monitoring, RAIM

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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