This application contains subject matter that is related to a U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/875,809, filed Jun. 6, 2001, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to generating satellite tracking information for earth orbiting satellites. More specifically, the invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating and distributing satellite tracking information in a first format (e.g., a compact ephemeris model) through a network or communications link, then representing the satellite tracking information in a second format (e.g., a standard ephemeris model) at a receiver.
2. Description of the Related Art
A positioning receiver for the Global Positioning System (GPS) uses measurements from several satellites to compute a position. The process of acquiring the GPS radio signal is enhanced in speed and sensitivity if the GPS receiver has prior access to a model of the satellite orbit and clock. This model is broadcast by the GPS satellites and is known as ephemeris or ephemeris information. Each satellite broadcasts its own ephemeris once every 30 seconds. Once the GPS radio signal has been acquired, the process of computing position requires the use of the ephemeris information.
The broadcast ephemeris information is encoded in a 900 hit message within the GPS satellite signal. It is transmitted at a rate of 50 bits per second, taking 18 seconds in all for a complete ephemeris transmission. The broadcast ephemeris information is typically valid for 2 to 4 hours into the future (from the time of broadcast). Before the end of the period of validity the GPS receiver must obtain a fresh broadcast ephemeris to continue operating correctly and produce an accurate position. It is always slow (no faster than 18 seconds), frequently difficult, and sometimes impossible (in environments with very low signal strengths), for a GPS receiver to download an ephemeris from a satellite. For these reasons it has long been known that it is advantageous to send the ephemeris to a GPS receiver by some other means in lieu of awaiting the transmission from the satellite. U.S. Pat. No. 4,445,118, issued Apr. 24, 1984, describes a technique that collects satellite orbit information at a GPS reference station, and transmits the information to the remote GPS receiver via a wireless transmission. This technique of providing the ephemeris, or equivalent data, to a GPS receiver has become known as “Assisted-GPS”. Since the source of ephemeris in Assisted-GPS is the satellite signal, the ephemeris information remains valid for only a few hours. As such, the remote GPS receiver must periodically connect to a source of ephemeris information whether that information is received directly from the satellite or from a wireless transmission. Without such a periodic update, the remote GPS receiver will not accurately determine position.
Furthermore, the Assisted-GPS systems typically retransmit the entire ephemeris message to the remote receiver. In many instances, bandwidth or packet size for the transmission of this message is not readily available.
Therefore, there is a need for a method and apparatus for providing, satellite trajectory and clock information to a remote receiver in a compact form.
The present invention is a method and apparatus for generating satellite tracking data (STD), then transmitting the data to a remote receiver in a compact form. The STD is derived by receiving at one or more satellite tracking stations the signals from at least one satellite and determining satellite tracking information (STI) through signal processing or by extracting the ephemeris message from the received signals. STI contains present satellite orbit trajectory data and satellite clock information.
The STD is reformatted into a compact format and provided to a remote satellite signal receiver via a network or communications system. The receiver converts the compact format into a standard format and uses the STD to compute the position of the receiver. The satellite system may include the global positioning system (GPS), GLONASS, GALILEO, or other satellite systems that may use STD to enhance the performance of the receiver.
So that the manner in which the above recited features of the present invention are attained and can be understood in detail, a more particular description of the invention, briefly summarized above, may be had by reference to the embodiments thereof which are illustrated in the appended drawings.
It is to be noted, however, that the appended drawings illustrate only typical embodiments of this invention and are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope, for the invention may admit to other equally effective embodiments.
A network of GPS tracking stations 102 is used to collect measurement data from the GPS satellites 104. Such a network is described in detail in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/615,105, filed Jul. 13, 2000 and incorporated herein by reference. The network could comprise several tracking stations that collect satellite tracking information (STI) from all the satellites in the constellation, or a few tracking stations, or a single tracking station that only collects STI for a particular region of the world. An STD collection and computation server 106 collects and processes the measurement data (this measurement data is referred to herein as satellite tracking information (STI) that includes at least one of: code phase measurements, carrier phase measurements, Doppler measurements, or ephemeris data). The ephemeris data may be the decoded ephemeris message extracted from the GPS signal itself.
The server may create long term STD in accordance with the teachings of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/875,809, filed Jun. 6, 2001, or standard ephemeris message data in accordance with the teachings of U.S. Pat. No. 5,365,450, issued Nov. 15, 1994, both of which are incorporated herein by reference. The server 106 may produce one or more of the following: 1) accurate satellite tracking data (STD) (e.g., a trajectory of each satellite and/or a clock offset measurement) during the data collection period, 2) a prediction of the future STD of each satellite, and 3) models that match the future STD of each satellite.
The server 106 comprises a central processing unit (CPU) 118, support circuits 122, and memory 120. The CPU 118 may be any one of the many CPUs available on the market to perform general computing. Alternatively, the CPU may be a specific purpose processor such as an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that is designed to process satellite tracking information. The support circuits 122 are well known circuits such as clock circuits, cache, power supplies and the like. The memory 120 may be read only memory, random access memory, disk drive storage, removable storage or any combination thereof. The memory 120 stores executable software, e.g., STD software 124, that, when executed by the CPU 118, causes the system 100 to operate in accordance with the present invention.
The set of satellite trajectory and clock data produced by the STD software 124. The STD is stored in an STD database 108. A distribution server 110 accesses the database 108 to gather the most recent set of STD, formats the data using the formatting software 111, and distributes the formatted data to GPS devices 112 that require satellite orbit information. The software 111 produces a compact format, e.g., a compact ephemeris model, in accordance with the present invention.
The distribution process may be implemented using some form of wireless communications system 114, or over the Internet 116, or a combination of both, or by some other means of communication. Once the GPS devices 112 have received the compact ephemeris model, they expand the model to a format that is conventional for receiver. The compact ephemeris model distributed to the GPS devices may be in a similar format as the broadcast ephemeris or may be some other model format that is defined by the GPS device. Herein this orbit data is generally referred to as a satellite tracking model (STM). The loading of the STM into the GPS receiver can be accomplished in many ways. Using the cradle for a personal digital assistant (PDA), direct connection to a network, or a wireless technology, such as Bluetooth or a cellular network, are a few examples of how the satellite data can be transferred to the receiver. The transmission is generally accomplished by broadcasting a compact model of the STD (or a compact model representing a portion of the STD) without knowledge of the specific location of the GPS receiver. As such, the distribution server does not require the GPS receiver to send any information through the network to the distribution server.
Since GPS is a ranging system in and of itself, the data transmitted by the GPS satellites can be used to determine the range, range-rate and clock offsets to the GPS satellites from a set of tracking stations. This set of observations generated by the tracking stations 102 is used in the orbit determination process, and in the estimation of the satellite clock characteristics. The set of monitoring stations 102 could be a single station, a public network such as the Continuously Operating Reference System (CORS), or a privately owned and/or operated network.
One embodiment of the invention formats the STD as a subset of the standard ephemeris parameters defined in ICD-GPS-200c. Fitting the STD to the desired compact orbit model can be accomplished in a number of mathematical methods. The preferred embodiment is a least-squares fit of the orbit model parameters to the trajectory data. Other methods, such as Kalman filters or other estimators can also be used to obtain the orbit model parameters that best fit the trajectory data. These techniques of fitting data to orbit models are well known to people skilled in the art of orbit determination and orbit modeling.
The least squares technique provides an optimal fit of the trajectory data to the model trajectory formed from the compact orbit model parameters.
At step 302, the STD for the desired time interval is extracted from the STD database. The orbit model parameters are initialized to the orbit model values obtained by a similar process for the previous interval. This guarantees that the initial orbit model parameters are a good fit at least for the beginning of the desired time interval. The rest of the process 300 will ensure that the parameters are adjusted so that they become a good fit for the entire time interval.
In the preferred embodiment there are 15 orbital parameters to be adjusted:
At step 303, some of the terms in the 15 term set are set to zero. The terms that are selected are the 6 harmonic terms such that there are 9 remaining parameters. This approach is particularly useful when bandwidth and/or packet size is limited in the communication link that will be used to convey the orbit model to the satellite signal receiver, e.g., the remote GPS receiver. The subset of 9 parameters, by setting all harmonic terms in the model to zero, is:
The receiver can then reconstruct a standard ephemeris model by setting the “missing” harmonic terms to zero. In essence, the receiver reformats the STD for processing by the receiver circuits.
As an example of the method of generating the compact model, consider
In the preferred embodiment, 6 harmonic terms are removed from the 15-parameter model, and the other 9 terms are adjusted by process 300 that is analogous to the example 400 to provide a compact model that is accurate over a pre-defined interval. By adjusting the 9 remaining terms of an orbit model, while “zeroing” 6 harmonic terms, the compact model can be made accurate over a period of time such that a GPS receiver that relies on a compact model to compute position would compute a location that is no more than 2 meters less accurate than if the receiver used a full orbit model to compute position.
There are many alternative embodiments that will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, such as removing more or fewer terms before adjusting the remaining terms, setting removed terms to some value other than zero, and defining new terms that model the orbit.
Returning to
There are a large number of alternative embodiments to reduce the size of the data, i.e., compacting the STD, while still providing a model that fits the STD, including:
Some of these approaches reduce the ability of the model to fit the data over a period of time (e.g., four hours). In this case, the fit interval may be reduced (e.g. to two hours) to compensate. The accuracy of fit of the model can be traded off against the period of time over which the model is valid. While the foregoing is directed to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, other and further embodiments of the invention may be devised without departing from the basic scope thereof, and the scope thereof is determined by the claims that follow.
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Parent | 09915219 | Jul 2001 | US |
Child | 13237550 | US |