Date of Award

3-2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Advisor

Sanjeev Gunawardena, PhD

Abstract

The goal of this work is to characterize a novel navigation method which uses carrier Doppler shift measurements from LEO satellites. An ever-growing reliance on the GNSS has coincided with an increase in ways it can be degraded or denied, whether naturally occurring or man-made. These potentially disastrous threats to traditional navigation and timing have necessitated new technologies to augment GNSS in the case of an outage. LEO constellations, whose size and higher signal power make them potentially useful for navigation, are one technology that has been explored. The navigation algorithms detailed in this research use Doppler measurements from 8 or more LEO satellites to simultaneously solve for position, clock offset, velocity, and clock offset rate. Through simulation, a user-satellite geometry analysis is conducted for a number of emerging LEO constellations, as well as navigation simulations with the same constellations. Results are presented which show promise from both a satellite geometry perspective and PVT solution convergence perspective.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-ENG-MS-22-M-032

DTIC Accession Number

AD1175774

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