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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2018
Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc., Livermore, CA (US);
Lev Borisovich Rapoport, Moscow, RU;
Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc., Livermore, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of determining coordinates, including receiving GNSS (global navigation satellite system) signals from at least five satellites, wherein at least two of the five satellites belong to one constellation, and the remaining satellites belong to at least one other constellation; processing the GNSS signals to measure code and phase measurements for each of the satellites and each of the GNSS signals; selecting a subset of the GNSS signals as an optimal set for coordinate calculation, where the selecting is based on Semi-Definite Programming (SDP) relaxation as applied to an optimization of a PDOP (positional dilution of precision) criterion; calculating coordinates of a receiver based on the code and phase measurements of the selected subset; and outputting the calculated coordinates. The total number of signals in the optimal set should not exceed the predefined number of m signals.