Binary Offset Carrier (BOC) and Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) Modulation in Indoor Drones GNSS Recievers using Multipath Error Envelope MEE Technique

Abstract

The applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have greatly eased the lives of human being. Due to the mass commerial production of UAVs (or Drones) and the support of the ongoing scientific research, it can now be used in disaster monitoring, surviellance, fire conrolling and many outdoor usages. However, the indoor applications have stricter requirements for the autonomous positioning capability of UAVs, requiring its positioning accuracy to be within the narrower areas and aisles. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is currently the only guidance and autorecovery method that can be applied directly and consistently to UAV positioning. The current GPS L1C and/or Galileo E1 open services signals are being widely used for this purpose. Moreover, the Binary Offset Carrier (BOC) techniques have been recently adopted in Galileo and GPS BIII as one of the efficient mitigation methods to decrease the interference/multipath delays and to increase both the Position Accuracy and the immunity of GNSS interferences. This research aims to present a software method of assessing the improvements of the Accuracy, and yet the Availability, by producing the MEE for BOC technique. The used methodology is analyzing the theoretical equations behind the interfernece multipath error envelopes in both BPSK and the new BOC signals. The Results show a higher performance of BOC GNSS Recievers over BPSK ones, and less delay.