A New Rapid Integer Ambiguity Resolution of GNSS Phase-Only Dynamic Differential Positioning

Abstract

The methods using the linear combination or simultaneous equations of GNSS carrier phase and pseudorange as the observations have become the main technology applied in GNSS dynamic differential positioning. Though the usage of pseudorange measurements can improve the efficiency of the integer ambiguity resolution, it may cause larger positioning errors than only using carrier phase. In response, we propose a new rapid integer ambiguity resolution algorithm that only using carrier phase for GNSS differential positioning. Based on weighted constrained least-squares ambiguity decorrelation adjustment (WC-LAMBDA), this method utilizes the baseline resolution of GNSS pseudorange differential positioning to constrain the integer ambiguity resolution of phase-only differential positioning. This method can make full use of the pseudorange constraints to improve the efficiency of phase-only integer ambiguity resolution. Besides, it can avoid the large error in positioning results caused by errors of pseudorange measurements. The experimental results show that the proposed method can shorten the initialization time of the integer ambiguity resolution and achieve a rapid and high precision phase-only differential positioning.