Feasibility analysis of the performance of low-cost GNSS receivers in monitoring dynamic motion

Xue, Chenyu; Psimoulis, Panos A.; Meng, Xiaolin

Abstract

The development of low-cost GNSS receivers broadens their applications, such as deformation monitoring, which have been performed routinely by survey-grade GNSS receivers. To evaluate the performance of low-cost GNSS receivers, we assessed the precision of low-cost multi-GNSS receivers in monitoring dynamic motion and developed methods of using a closely-spaced dual low-cost GNSS receivers’ system to enhance their performance. In this study, both the survey-grade and low-cost GNSS receiver/antennas were mounted on a circular rotating device executing controlled periodic rotation. It was shown that the precision of the low-cost GNSS receivers could be enhanced to the level of 2–4 mm, by using multi-GNSS observations and limiting the noise level based on error modelling and filtering of the closely–spaced low-cost GNSS receivers. Finally, from the experiments and a real bridge monitoring application, it was proved that low-cost GNSS receivers could accurately define modal frequencies of ∼0.362 Hz and ∼1.680 Hz, respectively.

Citation

Xue, C., Psimoulis, P. A., & Meng, X. (2022). Feasibility analysis of the performance of low-cost GNSS receivers in monitoring dynamic motion. Measurement, 202, Article 111819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2022.111819

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 22, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Aug 28, 2022
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2022
• Deposit Date: Sep 8, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 12, 2022
• Journal: Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation
• Print ISSN: 0263-2241
• Publisher: Elsevier BV
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 202
• Article Number: 111819
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2022.111819
• Keywords: Applied Mathematics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Condensed Matter Physics; Instrumentation
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/10916900
• Publisher URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026322412201020X?via%3Dihub