Non-Taylor series based positioning method for location based services

Location Based Services (LBS) has gained increasing popularity in major cities. Due to blocking from man-made structures, the existing Global Positioning System (GPS) could not satisfy LBS applications, especially in street canyon and indoor surroundings. This has lead to the development of Assisted...

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Main Authors: Tan, Kim Geok, Reza, Ahmed Wasef, San, Choy Liew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2008
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Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/1005/1/Tim_Kim_Geok.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/1005/
http://jict.uum.edu.my
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Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia
Language: English
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Summary:Location Based Services (LBS) has gained increasing popularity in major cities. Due to blocking from man-made structures, the existing Global Positioning System (GPS) could not satisfy LBS applications, especially in street canyon and indoor surroundings. This has lead to the development of Assisted GPS (A-GPS) which can provide better service availability and accuracy gain. In the conventional positioning method, Taylor series expansion is applied to solve non-linear distance equations. This method requires an initial estimation of A-GPS receiver’s position. This paper investigates the positioning method for LBS based on hybrid E-OTD/GNSS. The proposed positioning method is non-Taylor series based. Therefore, it involves less complicated mathematical expansion and substitution. A flexible LBS positioning tool is developed which can generate position information in convenient way. It supports both Taylor series and non-Taylor series based positioning methods. The obtained results showed that the proposed non-Taylor series based positioning method can achieve better positioning accuracy.