The GNSS integer ambiguities: estimation and validation
The GNSS integer ambiguities: estimation and validation
The GNSS integer ambiguities: estimation and validation
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2-D example<br />
Figure 5.13 shows in black all float samples for which ā = ǎ for two different fail rates.<br />
5.5 Penalized Integer Aperture <strong>estimation</strong><br />
Penalized Integer Aperture <strong>estimation</strong> (PIA) was introduced in Teunissen (2004e), <strong>and</strong><br />
is based on the idea to assign a penalty to each of the possible outcomes of a decision<br />
process, <strong>and</strong> then to minimize the average penalty. In the case of the class of <strong>integer</strong><br />
aperture estimators defined in equation (5.1) there are three outcomes <strong>and</strong> the corresponding<br />
penalties are denoted as ps for success, pf for failure, <strong>and</strong> pu for undecided.<br />
<strong>The</strong> expectation of the penalty is given by:<br />
E{p} = psPs + pf Pf + puPu<br />
(5.37)<br />
So, the average penalty is a weighted sum of the individual penalties, <strong>and</strong> depends on<br />
the chosen penalties, <strong>and</strong> on the aperture pull-in region Ω0 since this region determines<br />
the probabilities Ps, Pf <strong>and</strong> Pu as can be seen in equation (5.4). <strong>The</strong> goal is now to<br />
find the Ω that minimizes this average penalty, i.e.<br />
min<br />
Ω E{p} (5.38)<br />
This implies that the aperture space depends on the penalties. <strong>The</strong> solution is obtained<br />
by minimization of:<br />
<br />
⎛<br />
<br />
⎞ ⎛<br />
<br />
⎞<br />
E{p} = ps fâ(x + a)dx + pf ⎝ (fˇɛ(x) − fâ(x + a))dx⎠<br />
+ pu ⎝1 − fˇɛ(x)dx⎠<br />
Ω0<br />
Ω0<br />
<br />
⎛<br />
<br />
⎞<br />
= (ps − pf ) fâ(x + a)dx + (pf − pu) ⎝ fˇɛ(x)dx⎠<br />
+ pu<br />
Ω0<br />
Ω0<br />
Ω0<br />
(5.39)<br />
For the minimization of E{p} with respect to Ω only the first two terms on the righth<strong>and</strong><br />
side of equation (5.39) need to be considered, i.e. Ω0 follows from the following<br />
minimization problem:<br />
<br />
min<br />
Ω0<br />
Ω0<br />
((pf − pu)fˇɛ(x) + (ps − pf )fâ(x + a)) dx (5.40)<br />
<br />
F (x)<br />
It follows thus that Ω0 must be chosen such that all function values of F (x) are negative:<br />
Ω0,PIA = {x ∈ S0 | fˇɛ(x) ≤ pf − ps<br />
pf − pu<br />
<br />
µ<br />
fâ(x + a)} (5.41)<br />
Note that the aperture space still depends on the <strong>integer</strong> estimator that is used, since<br />
the pull-in region S0 is different for rounding, bootstrapping <strong>and</strong> <strong>integer</strong> least-squares.<br />
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