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h1. PART 5 : Implementation and results.
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This part is dedicated to explain and illustrate the main steps that have been done in order to retrieve a navigation signal and to compute the position of the receiver from the pseudo-range measurements of 4 satellites. [[PART|PART 2]], [[PART2|PART 3]] and [[PART41|PART 4]] provided a theoretical background on GPS signals, the main blocks of a GPS receiver and methods to compute the position using the navigation data. Now, it is time to put this theoretical knowledge into practice.
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As lots of VIs have been created, a UML diagram has been drawn to illustrate the structure of the overall code. For each main step that will be described, a link to the UML diagram will be provided, the different VIs to be taken into consideration will be listed, a few key points regarding the implementation will be clarified and the results will be displayed.
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h2. 1 - Starting point.
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h3. a - Quid about LabVIEW.
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Labview is a modular dataflow programming language that relies on block diagrams interconnected with each other. Each block diagram represents a node, a function that can be run as soon as its inputs are available. Then, it computes outputs used as inputs by other nodes. Any created program can be reused as a node in a higher-level program, hence the modularity of Labview. While running a program, each input can be controlled thanks to a user interface known as a “front panel”. Likewise, every output can be monitored and displayed using the front panel. As a matter of fact, the front panel is closely linked to the program called the “block diagram”. Indeed, every primary input of the block diagram are defined and controlled via the front panel.
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h3. b - Receiver scheme and milestones.
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The software-defined GPS receiver to be implemented should take as an input a sampled signal that has been received and down-converted by an RF receiver front-end. As our RF receiver front-end was missing an antenna, we used a recorded GPS raw signal from the output of an RF front end (from CD *[1]* under GNSS_signal_records/GPSdata-DiscreteComponents-fs38_192-if9_55.bin). In order to read properly the data that are contained in the recorded file, one needs to know the sampling frequency and the intermediate frequency of the raw signal.
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Sampling frequency = 38.192 MHz
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Intermediate frequency = 9.55 MHz
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The following diagram sums up the general structure of the GPS receiver to be implemented.
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p=. !SDR_GPS_Receiver.png!
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*Figure 5.1*: General receiver sheme.
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h3. c - Local C/A code generation.
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The files involved are :
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- _CA_Code.vi_ : attachment:"SnapCACode.png"
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- _CA_generatorG1.vi_ : attachment:"SnapG1.PNG"
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- _CA_generatorG2.vi_ : attachment:"SnapG2.png"
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These VIs allow generating a PRN sequence according to the satellite ID and the sampling frequency. Indeed, the newly generated PRN sequence has to be multiplied with the incoming signal. Knowing that the period of one PRN sequence is 1 ms, the length of the generated sequence has to be adjusted according to the sampling frequency. With a sampling frequency of 1.023 MHz, a sampled PRN sequence with 1023 samples is generated. With a sampling frequency of 38.192 MHz, a sampled PRN sequence with 38192 samples is generated.
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p=. !PRN_sequence.png!
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*Figure 5.2*: Example of a locally generated PRN sequence.
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In Figure 5.2, a PRN sequence corresponding to satellite 21 has been generated with a sampling frequency of 38.192 MHz. This PRN sequence lasts 1 ms (a zoom has been done on the figure in order to see the sequence of chips).
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h2. 2 - Acquisition.
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*See the UML Diagram of Section 2 under :* attachment:"Acquisition.png"
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The files involved are :
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- _Main_Acquisition.vi_ : attachment:"SnapAcquisition.PNG"
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- _Acquisition_subVI.vi_ : attachment:"SnapAcquisitionSub.png"
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- _CA_Code.vi_ : attachment:"SnapCACode.png"
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In [[PART2|PART 3]], three different methods for acquisition have been described. Each of these methods exhibits different performances regarding the execution time and the accuracy of the frequency and code phase estimations. It has been explained that the parallel code phase search acquisition is less time consuming than the others. Likewise, it is more accurate regarding the estimation of the code phase, which will facilitate the convergence of the DLL towards its settling state. Thereby, the parallel code phase search acquisition will be implemented.
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The parallel code phase search acquisition requires to search among the frequencies around the intermediate frequency of the raw signal because of the Doppler that is induced by the motion of the satellite relatively to the receiver. This searching process is finite, meaning that the range of ± 10 kHz around the intermediate frequency has to be swept with a frequency step. Such a frequency step induces a frequency mismatch between the actual frequency of the raw signal and the local frequency of the receiver. This frequency mismatch translates into losses during the acquisition process. A common GPS receiver exhibits 1 dB of loss during the acquisition process. Such a loss is reached provided that:
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p=. !Loss_acquisition.png!
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Where ∆f is the maximum frequency mismatch and T_coh is coherent time of integration.
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Given that we integrate over 1 ms, which corresponds to the period of one PRN sequence, the maximum frequency mismatch should be less than 500 Hz. By using a frequency step of 500 Hz, the searching process has to go through 41 different frequencies to cover the range of ± 10 kHz around the intermediate frequency and the maximum frequency mismatch is 250 Hz. Thus, the acquisition process exhibits less than 1 dB of losses.
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The acquisition process is carried out over 1 ms which corresponds to the period of one PRN sequence. Nonetheless, the code phase is not known during the acquisition process. As a result, the integration time is likely to overlap over two actual incoming PRN sequences as it is illustrated on the following figure.
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p=. !Acquisition_Duration.png!
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*Figure 5.3*: Acquisition - Integration duration.
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As mentioned in [[PART|PART 2]], one navigation bit contains 20 PRN sequences and last 20 ms. As one does not know whether the acquisition process is aligned with an incoming PRN sequence, the acquisition might be carried out while there is a navigation bit transition. In that case, the result from the acquisition is erroneous and the receiver might consider that a satellite is not visible whereas it actually is (worst case when the navigation bit transition occurs at the middle of the acquisition process). To overcome this issue, the acquisition process is run twice on two successive milliseconds. By doing so, at least one acquisition iteration does not include any navigation transition bit.
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Once the navigation bit transition has been taken care of, the acquisition is successful when a satellite is visible and one is provided with a coarse estimation of the carrier frequency of the GPS raw signal as well as its code phase. Nevertheless, the frequency error can be up to 250 Hz. Such an error cannot be handled by the PLL once the acquisition outputs are given as inputs to the tracking block. Consequently, the frequency estimation has to be refined. As the code phase is known with a good accuracy thanks to the acquisition, it is possible to remove it from the raw signal. If it is removed over 1 ms of the raw signal, there is no bit transition and only the carrier of the raw signal is left (see Figure 3.6 of [[PART2|PART 3]]). Then it is possible to refine the estimation of the carrier by computing the Fourier transform of the carrier.
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The link and the figure below illustrate the front-panel of the Main_Acquisition VI.
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p=. attachment:"Main_Acquisition_1.png"
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p=. !Main_Acquisition_2.png!
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*Figure 5.4*: Acquisition results.
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h2. 3 - Tracking.
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*See the UML Diagram of Section 2 under :* attachment:"Track.png"
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The files involved are :
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- _Main_Carrier_Tracking.vi_ : attachment:"SnapTracking.png"
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- _CalcLoopCoeff.vi_ : attachment:"SnapCalcLoopCoeff.PNG"
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The theory of the PLL and DLL has been detailed in [[PART2|PART 3]]. In order to assess the carrier phase error and the code phase error, several discriminators can be used for the PLL and the DLL. The discriminators used for the PLL and the DLL are given in the following table:
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Justification of the DLL discriminator
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Correction of the blocksize to read as a function of the doppler shift
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p=. !TrackingMin.PNG!
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h2. 4 - Navigation Data decoding.
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*See the UML Diagram of Section 4 under :* attachment:"NavigationData.PNG".
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h3. a - Delimiting subframes.
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The files involved are :
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- _FindPreamble.vi_ : attachment:"SnapFindPreamble.png"
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- _TestFindPreamble.vi_ : attachment:"SnapTestFindPreamble.PNG"
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- _GenerateFrame.vi_ : attachment:"SnapGenerateFrame.png"
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- _ParityCheck.vi_ : attachment:"SnapParityCheck.PNG"
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p=. !Preamble1.PNG! !Preamble2.PNG!
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p((((. *Figure 5. :* Cross-correlation between navigation frame and local preamble. *Figure 5. :* Subframes with index of delimitation.
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h3. b- Decoding ephemeris and information within the frame.
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The files involved are :
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- _Ephemeris.vi_ : attachment:"SnapEphemeris.png"
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- _BinaryArrayToDecimal.vi_ : attachment:"SnapBinaryArrayToDecimal.PNG"
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- _twosComp2dec.vi_ : attachment:"SnapTwosComp2dec.PNG"
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- _ParityCheck.vi__ : attachment:"SnapParityCheck.PNG"
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- _TestEphemeris.vi_
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h2. 5 - Elementary blocks for localization.
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*See the UML Diagram of Section 5 under :* attachment:"Localization.PNG"
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h3. a - Satellite position.
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The files involved are :
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- _SatellitePosition.vi_ : attachment:"SnapSatellitePosition.png"
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- _TestSatellitePosition.vi_ : attachment:"SnapTest_satellite_position.PNG"
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- _Check_time.vi_ : attachment:"SnapCheckTime.PNG"
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p=. !SatPos.PNG!
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*Figure 5. :* Interface with ephemeris as input and illustration of the satellite position.
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h3. b - Pseudoranges.
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The file involved is :
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_PseudorangesComputation.vi_
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h3. c - Least Square solution for position determination.
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The files involved are :
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- _LeastSquarePosition.vi_ : attachment:"SnapLeastSquare.png"
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- _SatelliteRotationECEF.vi_ : attachment:"SnapSatelliteRotationECEF.PNG"
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- _toTopocentric.vi_ : attachment:"SnaptoTopocentric.PNG"
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- _CartesianToGeodetic.vi_ : attachment:"SnapCartesianToGeodetic.PNG"
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- _TroposphericCorrection.vi_ : attachment:"SnapTropospheric.PNG"
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h2. 6 - Receiver position computation.
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*See the UML Diagram of Section 6 under :* attachment:"Receiver.PNG"
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The files involved are :
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- _ComputeReceiverPosition.vi_ : attachment:"SnapReceiver.png"
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- _NavigationProcess.vi_ : attachment:"SnapNavigationProcess.PNG"
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- _CartesianToGeodeticForUTM.vi_ : attachment:"SnapCartesianToGeodeticForUTM.PNG"
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- _CartesianToUTM.vi_ : attachment:"SnapCartesianToUTM.png"
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h2. 7 - Complete UML Diagram of the receiver.
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*The UML diagram with real size is available under :* attachment:"UMLDiagram.png"
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Here is a small overview of the structure :
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p=. !UMLDoverview.PNG!
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*References :* 
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*[1]* K. Borre, D. M. Akos, N. Bertelsen, P. Rinder, S. H. Jensen, A software-defined GPS and GALILEO receiver