Precise positioning engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12320904-B2
Application number	US-202218062547-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 6, 2022
Priority date	Dec 6, 2022
Publication date	Jun 3, 2025
Grant date	Jun 3, 2025

Abstract

Aspects presented herein may improve the positioning accuracy and latency of a positioning engine that receives at least one position constraint for assisting the positioning. A wireless device obtains an indication of at least one position constraint for a positioning engine. The wireless device detects whether the at least one position constraint exceeds an error threshold based on a set of PR residuals between the wireless device and at least one satellite. The wireless device excludes the at least one position constraint from a calculation at the positioning engine if the at least one position constraint exceeds the error threshold, or includes the at least one position constraint in the calculation at the positioning engine if the at least one position constraint is below the error threshold.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for wireless communication at a wireless device, comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the memory, the at least one processor is configured to:
obtain an indication of at least one position constraint for a positioning engine;
detect whether the at least one position constraint exceeds an error threshold based on a set of pseudo-range (PR) residuals between the wireless device and at least one satellite; and
exclude the at least one position constraint from a calculation at the positioning engine if the at least one position constraint exceeds the error threshold, or include the at least one position constraint in the calculation at the positioning engine if the at least one position constraint is below the error threshold.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one position constraint includes at least one of:
a dead-reckoning (DR) output from a fusion engine,
a camera vision output from at least one camera,
a user manual input,
an odometer output,
a map-matching output,
an ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning output,
a terrestrial positioning output,
a Wi-Fi positioning output, or
a network-based positioning output.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
calculate the set of PR residuals between the wireless device and the at least one satellite via the positioning engine.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the set of PR residuals includes at least one of: a receiver clock error, a position constraint error, or an atmospheric error.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
initiate the calculation at the positioning engine after the at least one processor is configured to exclude the at least one position constraint from the calculation or include the at least one position constraint in the calculation.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein to include the at least one position constraint in the calculation at the positioning engine, the at least one processor is configured to: recover the at least one position constraint if the at least one position constraint is below the error threshold.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein to recover the at least one position constraint if the at least one position constraint is below the error threshold, the at least one processor is configured to:
calculate a difference between a first position of the wireless device that is calculated based on the positioning engine without the at least one position constraint and a second position of the wireless device that is calculated based on the positioning engine with the at least one position constraint; and
exclude the at least one position constraint from the calculation at the positioning engine in response to the difference exceeding a difference threshold, or include the at least one position constraint in the calculation at the positioning engine in response to the difference not exceeding the difference threshold.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the first position of the wireless device and the second position of the wireless device are configured to be calculated for a same epoch.

9. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein to recover the at least one position constraint if the at least one position constraint is below the error threshold, the at least one processor is configured to:
exclude the at least one position constraint from the calculation at the positioning engine if the positioning engine is converged without the at least one position constraint.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein to include the at least one position constraint in the calculation at the positioning engine if the at least one position constraint is below the error threshold, the at least one processor is configured to:
compute a first delta position of the wireless device using a delta carrier phase (DCP);
calculate a difference between a first position of the wireless device that is calculated based on the first delta position with a second position of the wireless device that is calculated based on a second delta position derived from the at least one position constraint; and
exclude the at least one position constraint from the calculation at the positioning engine in response to the difference exceeding a difference threshold, or include the at least one position constraint in the calculation at the positioning engine in response to the difference not exceeding the difference threshold.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the first position of the wireless device and the second position of the wireless device are configured to be calculated for a same epoch.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device is a user equipment (UE), a base station, a network node, a network entity, a location server, the positioning engine, or an Internet of Things (IoT) device.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the positioning engine is a precise point positioning (PPP) engine or a real-time kinematic (RTK) engine.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the error threshold is a maximum error threshold.

15. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to obtain the indication of the at least one position constraint for the positioning engine after a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) outage.

16. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising at least one of a transceiver or an antenna coupled to the at least one processor, wherein to obtain the indication of the at least one position constraint, the at least one processor is configured to: receive, via at least one of the transceiver or the antenna, the indication of the at least one position constraint from the positioning engine.

17. A method of wireless communication at a wireless device, comprising:
obtaining an indication of at least one position constraint for a positioning engine;
detecting whether the at least one position constraint exceeds an error threshold based on a set of pseudo-range (PR) residuals between the wireless device and at least one satellite; and
excluding the at least one position constraint from a calculation at the positioning engine if the at least one position constraint exceeds the error threshold, or including the at least one position constraint in the calculation at the positioning engine if the at least one position constraint is below the error threshold.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the at least one position constraint includes at least one of:
a dead-reckoning (DR) output from a fusion engine,
a camera vision output from at least one camera,
a user manual input,
an odometer output,
a map-matching output,
an ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning output,
a terrestrial positioning output,
a Wi-Fi positioning output, or
a network-based positioning output.

19. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:
calculating the set of PR residuals between the wireless device and the at least one satellite via the positioning engine.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the set of PR residuals includes at least one of: a receiver clock error, a position constraint error, or an atmospheric error.

21. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:
initiating the calculation at the positioning engine after excluding the at least one position constraint from the calculation or including the at least one position constraint in the calculation.

22. The method of claim 1

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Wang Min
• Tuck David
• Peng Yuxiang

Classifications

• G01S19/03

  Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers · CPC title

• G01S13/867

  Combination of radar systems with cameras · CPC title

• G01C21/12

  executed aboard the object being navigated; Dead reckoning · CPC title

• G01S19/25 Primary

  involving aiding data received from a cooperating element, e.g. assisted GPS · CPC title

• G01S19/396 Primary

  Determining accuracy or reliability of position or pseudorange measurements · CPC title