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  • Navigation Systems Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Signal Processing

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  • High-precision time synchronization is critical for the accuracy of airborne-based pseudolite navigation augmentation positioning systems (A-PNAS).
  • Airborne platforms experience random motion, introducing time-varying and Doppler effect errors into clock skew measurements.
  • Existing systems require time synchronization accuracy (TSA) within 2 ns for meter-level positioning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the impact of dynamic errors on TSA in A-PNAS.
  • To propose and validate a multi-sensor method for correcting these dynamic errors.

Main Methods:

  • Analyzed the principles of dynamic error generation in airborne navigation systems.
  • Developed a multi-sensor combination method utilizing available motion sensors.
  • Calculated and corrected dynamic errors based on real-time motion measurements.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method demonstrated a significant improvement in correcting dynamic errors, achieving close to 80% correction.
  • Simulation tests confirmed the effectiveness of the multi-sensor approach.
  • The method successfully mitigates the impact of dynamic errors on time synchronization accuracy.

Conclusions:

  • The multi-sensor dynamic error correction method effectively meets the stringent TSA requirements of A-PNAS.
  • This approach provides a valuable reference for high-precision time synchronization in similar collaborative space-based systems.
  • The findings support enhanced positioning accuracy and reliability in airborne navigation.