2nd Galileo Android Hackathon intro
- 1. Introduction to GNSS raw measurements in
smartphones
Galileo Hackathon
Dr. Lukasz Bonenberg
15th May 2017
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- 8. But how do I know my location?
developer.android.com/guide/topics/location/strategies.
html
©Google
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- 12. Android GNSS observations
• Pseudorange/Pseudorange Rate (code)
• HW clock
• Navigation data
• Accumulated Delta Range (Carrier)
• additional information (Doppler, observation uncertainty, SNR
ect)
Observations provided by android.location are chipsets dependent1.
1Qualcomm Snapdragon, Broadcom BCM4774 or Intel WCS2x00. There could be
more.
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- 16. Applications?
• GIS and asset management
• Crowdsorcing
• Low cost CORS network
• Space weather
• sensor fusion
• improving position in urban areas (Shadow Matching)
What could you do with with phone position on dm level?
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- 17. Sample workflow
Positioning applications use android.gms.location and Sensor from
android.hardware. What could we do with android.location?
• calculate Pseudorange;
• get corrections via NTRIP (DGPS);
• estimate position;
• provide position to android.gms.location (Google Play
Services).
• Convert observables to RINEX;
• Expand NMEA logger for additional messages;
• Send timing and synchronisation information;
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- 19. Take away
• android.gms.location abstracts and simplifies position use
within application. Main focus is battery use.
• There is existing android.hardware API giving us access to the
phone sensors.
• Android 7 adds GNSS observations API - android.location,
providing more GNSS positioning options (external corrections,
longer observation times, more sophisticated algorithms ect) at
the cost of battery power;
• Eperiment with new ideas and be creative.
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- 20. Useful links
• GSA market report - bit.ly/2h5qhP0
• GSA user report bit.ly/2i36aRj
• Simon Banville blog - www.blackdotgnss.com/2016/09/20/
ppp-with-smartphones-are-we-there-yet/
• Rokybun blog - http://rokubun.cat/2016/06/30/
android-n-preview-gnss-measurements/
• T. Humphrey et al (2016) On the Feasibility of cm-Accurate
Positioning via a Smartphone’s Antenna and GNSS Chip
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- 21. Useful links
• Existing apps using external hardware:
• uCentre bit.ly/uCentre
• NTRIP bit.ly/2q701V3
• RTKGPS+ bit.ly/RTKplus
• Google code github.com/google/gps-measurement-tools
• my fork - github.com/DfAC/gps-measurement-tools
• calculating pseudoranges - github.com/DfAC/AndroidGNSS
• RTKGPS github.com/tomojitakasu/RTKLIB
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