Techniques are provided for utilizing a mobile device to estimate ionospheric delays in GNSS transmissions. An example method of determining a position of a mobile device includes obtaining a pseudorange measurements and carrier-phase measurements for a satellite at a first frequency band and a second frequency band, determining a bias estimate for the satellite based on a plurality of pseudorange measurements and carrier-phase measurements, determining a delta carrier-phase measurement for the satellite based on the carrier-phase measurements at the first frequency band and the second frequency band, and determining the position of the mobile device based at least in part on the delta carrier-phase measurement, and the pseudorange measurements, the carrier-phase measurements, or both.

A Precise Point Positioning (PPP) system is disclosed in which one or more Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are obtained by a mobile device. The mobile device can obtain position information based on one or more position sources, where the position information is indicative of a location of the mobile device. One or more PPP positions of the mobile device can be determined based on the position information and the one or more GNSS signals, where a position uncertainty of the position information meets or is below an uncertainty threshold. A determination of whether at least one PPP position meets or is below one or more convergence thresholds can be made. In response to determining that at least one PPP position meets or is below the one or more convergence thresholds, the at least one PPP position can be provided.

A Precise Point Positioning (PPP) system is disclosed in which one or more Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are obtained by a mobile device. The mobile device can obtain position information based on one or more position sources, where the position information is indicative of a location of the mobile device. One or more PPP positions of the mobile device can be determined based on the position information and the one or more GNSS signals, where a position uncertainty of the position information meets or is below an uncertainty threshold. A determination of whether at least one PPP position meets or is below one or more convergence thresholds can be made. In response to determining that at least one PPP position meets or is below the one or more convergence thresholds, the at least one PPP position can be provided.

A system for autonomous mower navigation includes a robotic golf greens mower, an RTK-GPS base for providing RTK-GPS correction data, a cloud based data processing service for processing geolocation data, one or more computer servers, one or more mobile devices, a data communications network for providing communications access between any of the RTK-GPS base, the mobile device, the cloud service, and the robotic greens mower. The RTK-GPS correction data is processed by the cloud service and provided to the robotics greens mower via the data communications network.

Even if a cycle slip occurs in which reception of a positioning signal is interrupted, it is not necessary to estimate an integer bias again. A position during previous observation is updated on the basis of observation information from a sensor. The position during current observation is obtained by solving a modified observation equation obtained by applying a periodic function to an observation equation including a double difference of a carrier phase observed from a positioning signal from a satellite and eliminating the integer bias with the updated position as an initial value. For example, while an error in the position updated by the first calculation unit is less than ½ of a carrier wavelength, the second calculation unit solves the modified observation equation with the updated position as the initial value.

Disclosed are a vehicle navigation guidance system and a vehicle. The system includes: a navigation controller, a steering angle sensor, a motor steering controller and a display controller. The steering angle sensor is communicatively connected to the navigation controller, and is configured to acquire rotational angular velocity information of a wheel relative to a vehicle body, and output the angular velocity information to the navigation controller. The navigation controller is configured to output navigation guidance information according to positioning information and the angular velocity information, where the navigation controller includes a first positioning device, and the first positioning device is configured to acquire the positioning information. The motor steering controller is communicatively connected to the navigation controller, and is configured to perform steering control according to the navigation guidance information. The display controller is communicatively connected to the navigation controller, and is configured to display the navigation guidance information.

A positioning method is applied to a terminal device that includes a positioning chip and a system on chip (SoC). The method includes receiving, by the positioning chip, a satellite signal transmitted by at least one satellite, obtaining, by the positioning chip using the SoC, a differential correction value sent by a reference station, and performing, by the positioning chip based on a carrier phase differential technology, positioning calculation using the satellite signal and the differential correction value.

A method of determining an orientation of a nacelle of a wind turbine, wherein the nacelle carries a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) sensor, the method comprising: yawing the nacelle between a series of orientations; obtaining locus data based on a series of calibration positions measured by the GNSS sensor, wherein each calibration position is measured by the GNSS sensor when the nacelle is in a respective orientation of the series of orientations; storing the locus data; after storing the locus data, measuring a new position with the GNSS sensor; and determining the orientation of the nacelle on the basis of the stored locus data and the new position.

A relative navigation system comprising of a pair of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) units that communicate to provide updated position, velocity and attitude information from a master to a rover. The rover unit produces a carrier based solution that enables the system to reduce the uncorrelated low latency position error between the master and the rover units to less than 50 cm.

Systems and methods are provided for utilizing a connector to connect an external antenna to a mobile device. GNSS signals, associated with at least two different frequency bands, may be received at the external antenna and the GNSS signals may be transmitted to a connector module of the connector. The connector module may convert analog GNSS signals to generate digital radio frequency (RF) signals. The connector module may encrypt the digital RF signals to generate encrypted digital RF signals. The encrypted digital RF signals may be transmitted from the connector module to the mobile device. A multifrequency GNSS functionality module of the chipset may utilize decrypted digital RF signals to obtain GNSS raw measurements. The multifrequency GNSS functionality module and/or an application executing on the mobile device may utilize the GNSS raw measurements to compute position, velocity, and/or time (PVT).