Mac method for monitoring, with common bias compensation, the integrity of a point positioning process using virtual beacons

Abstract

A method for checking the integrity of the point positioning process obtained by determining the closest position, based on the adapted filtering of received GNSS signals, of a set of georeferenced reference positions for implementation on a mobile or fixed carrier, the method making it possible to check that the correlation function of the received GNSS signals is consistent with the selected reference position. The method for checking the integrity of the nearest location comprises: a first step for pre-selecting satellite signals suitable for the position integrity test, based on the minimum signal-to-noise ratio of the point correlation channel, a second step to exclude satellite signals that are not compatible with the predicted code phases, based on the absence of a Maximum At Center (MAC) of the early-punctual-late correlation points and meeting the non-integrity, non-continuity and alarm delay risks required for positioning system security, at least one maximum likelihood search step on the set of reference positions obtained by cumulating the elementary powers of the various selected satellites.