Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (3): 789-795.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2021.03.24

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Pulsar position error estimation algorithm with corrected clock error

Yongqiang XIAO1(), Hongli WANG1(), Lei FENG1(), Sihai YOU1(), Yiyang HE1(), Qiang XU2()   

  1. 1. Missile Engineering College, Rocket Army Engineering University, Xi'an 710025, China
    2. Department of Test and Control, Qingzhou High-tech Research Institute, Qingzhou 262500, China
  • Received:2020-04-29 Online:2021-03-01 Published:2021-03-16

Abstract:

In order to overcome the influence of clock error on pulsar position error estimation, a two-stage Kalman filter (TSKF) algorithm is designed. Firstly, the influence of the clock error on the estimation of pulsar position error is analyzed and verified by simulation. Secondly, combined with the principle of pulsar position error estimation, the state and observation equations of the clock error are considered again. Thirdly, according to the TSKF algorithm, when estimating the position error, the clock error is decoupled. Finally, the simulation results show that when the clock error causes the traditional algorithm to estimate a large deviation, the TSKF algorithm can still effectively suppress the influence of the clock error, so that the accuracy of right ascension and declination error estimation are both kept within 0.1 mas.

Key words: position error, clock error, Kalman filter, two-stage filtering

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