Research Article

Performance Trades for Multiantenna GNSS Multisensor Attitude Determination Systems

Table 2

Sensor error source Monte Carlo simulation distribution parameters, same as in [16].

Error sourcesModel parametersNotes

Thermal noise, Linear scale factor randomly selected between 0 and 1
Multipath1.0 intensity: , Linear scale factor randomly selected between 0 and 2
Tropospheric delayPercent of error assumed handled by broadcast correctionModified Hopfield with linear scale factor randomly selected between 0.95 and 1.05
Ionospheric delayFirst-order ionospheric effects mitigated with dual frequencyLinear scale factor randomly selected between 0.7 and 1
Carrier phase breakLikelihood set to 1 phase break per 24 minutes to 1 phase break per 240 minutes
GyroscopeIn-run bias , Scaled Honeywell HG1700AG72 SF = (, , )
Sun sensorZenith measurement noise Scaled solar MEMS ISSDX-60 SF = (1, 2, 3, 4)
MagnetometerMeasurement noise
terms scaled between 0.005 and 0.01
terms scaled between 25 nT and 50 nT
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