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Main Authors: Chen, Chih-Chun, Tan, Lipeng, Bai, Shiyu, Vallery, Heike
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24980
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author Chen, Chih-Chun
Tan, Lipeng
Bai, Shiyu
Vallery, Heike
author_facet Chen, Chih-Chun
Tan, Lipeng
Bai, Shiyu
Vallery, Heike
contents In Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-degraded environments, pseudolites (PLs) provide additional signal sources to enhance positioning performance, but their integration in optimization-based frameworks remains limited. This paper presents a loosely coupled factor graph optimization (FGO) framework that fuses the GNSS/PL least-squares (LS) solutions with inertial measurement unit (IMU) data. The evaluation considers low GNSS visibility scenarios with four high-elevation GNSS satellites and up to two PL transmitters over an 80~s window. FGO achieves a 22.8\% to 41.3\% reduction in mean 3D error compared to standard LS methods. Compared to a GNSS-IMU baseline, incorporating PL transmitters further improves positioning accuracy, with performance depending on geometry.
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spellingShingle Loosely Coupled Factor Graph Optimization for Pseudolite-Augmented Navigation
Chen, Chih-Chun
Tan, Lipeng
Bai, Shiyu
Vallery, Heike
Robotics
In Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-degraded environments, pseudolites (PLs) provide additional signal sources to enhance positioning performance, but their integration in optimization-based frameworks remains limited. This paper presents a loosely coupled factor graph optimization (FGO) framework that fuses the GNSS/PL least-squares (LS) solutions with inertial measurement unit (IMU) data. The evaluation considers low GNSS visibility scenarios with four high-elevation GNSS satellites and up to two PL transmitters over an 80~s window. FGO achieves a 22.8\% to 41.3\% reduction in mean 3D error compared to standard LS methods. Compared to a GNSS-IMU baseline, incorporating PL transmitters further improves positioning accuracy, with performance depending on geometry.
title Loosely Coupled Factor Graph Optimization for Pseudolite-Augmented Navigation
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24980