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MA325 GPS Project: Numerical Solutions

This document describes a GPS simulation project that involves determining the position of a receiver using data from satellites. Students are asked to: 1) Solve the navigation equations to find the receiver's position and time correction using data from 4 satellites. 2) Plot the satellites and receiver on a sphere representing Earth. 3) Set up and solve a non-linear least squares problem to determine the receiver's position and time using data from 6 satellites. Plot the results.

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MA325 GPS Project: Numerical Solutions

This document describes a GPS simulation project that involves determining the position of a receiver using data from satellites. Students are asked to: 1) Solve the navigation equations to find the receiver's position and time correction using data from 4 satellites. 2) Plot the satellites and receiver on a sphere representing Earth. 3) Set up and solve a non-linear least squares problem to determine the receiver's position and time using data from 6 satellites. Plot the results.

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MA325 GPS Project (2015)

MA325 GPS Project (2015)

Question

We discussed in this module a simple model mimicking how the GPS works by using least
squares technique.

For simple setup, t


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MA325 GPS Project (2015)

Question

We discussed in this module a simple model mimicking how the GPS works by using least
squares technique.

For simple setup, the idea can easily be verified by calculus (as we did in class). But quickly the
system becomes too difficult to handle by hand. The project therefore asks you to solve the
problem numerically by using someexisting optimization software package.

1. Consider the scenario that four satellite positioned in the space with coordinates

Satellite 1 : (15600, 7540, 20140)

Satellite 2 : (18760, 2750, 18610)

Satellite 3 : (17610, 14630, 13480)

Satellite 4 : (19170, 610, 18390)

in km are observing a receive position (x, y, z) near earth. Suppose that the measured time
intervals are

0.07074, 0.07220, 0.07690, 0.07242 in seconds, respectively, with an unknown latency


correction d.

(a) (20 pts) Solve the navigation equation (on the second to the last slide in lecture notes) for
the

position (x, y, z) of the receiver and the time correction d. (Hint: As the numbers are not so

friendly, you had better use some existing library routines to help you to get the numerical

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solution.

For example, the subroutine fsolve in either Maple or Matlab can help you.)

(b) (20 pts) Plot a sphere center at the origin with appropriate radius to represent the earth. Use
the

commands scatter3 to plot the locations of the four satellites as well as the calculated location
of

the receiver.

2. The reason that a minimum of 4 satellites are needed is because in the navigation equation
there are 4

unknowns. In this case, the problem is a square problem and no least squares are involved.
Assume now

that two more satellites are observing the receiver with the following data available:

Satellite 5 : position = (17800, 6400, 18660), time interval =0.0732;

Satellite 6 : position = (17500, 7590, 18490), time interval =0.0735.

(a) (20 pts) Set up a nonlinear least squares minimization and use the Matlab optimization tool

lsqnonlin to find the receiver’s position and the time correction. (Hint: Be aware of that the

objective function FUN(x) should be set up in a specific way as we have explained in class.
Read,

again, my lecture notes and see the example there.)

(b) (20 pts) Plot the earth, the six satellites, and the receiver’s location. What is wrong? Try to
offer

an explanation.

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