一种基于SAC-BiGRU的模糊度固定关键参数自适应优化方法

An Adaptive Optimization Method for Key Ambiguity-Fixing Parameters Based on SAC-BiGRU

  • 摘要: 全球导航卫星系统(Global Navigation Satellite System,GNSS)与惯性导航系统(Inertial Navigation System,INS)组合作为城市复杂场景的主流策略,其高精度定位性能依赖于模糊度的正确固定。针对传统模糊度固定方法在城市复杂场景中固定性能退化的问题,提出一种基于软演员–评论家(Soft Actor-Critic,SAC)与双向门控循环单元(Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit,BiGRU)的模糊度固定关键参数自适应优化方法。该方法首先将关键参数调节过程建模为马尔可夫决策过程,并利用在线解算获得的观测质量、解算状态和模糊度判别信息构建连续历元状态序列。随后,通过BiGRU提取状态序列中的时序特征,并采用SAC学习连续参数调节策略,实现高度角掩码、信噪比门限、观测噪声协方差和INS姿态不确定度等关键参数的联合调节,从而提升复杂环境下的模糊度固定性能。实验结果表明,所提方法在开阔场景下可保持定位精度并提升固定性能;在城市复杂环境下,相较于传统全模糊度固定方案,所提方法的固定率、正确固定率和成功率分别提高8.1、9.1和3.3%,错误固定率降低1.0%,表明所提方法能够在提高模糊度固定率的同时增强固定结果可靠性。

     

    Abstract: Objectives: Global Navigation Satellite System/Inertial Navigation System (GNSS/INS) integration is widely used to provide continuous and high-precision positioning in complex urban environments. Its positioning performance depends strongly on the correct fixing of carrier-phase ambiguities. However, GNSS signals in urban canyons are frequently affected by obstruction, multipath, and non-line-of-sight propagation, resulting in degraded observation quality and reduced ambiguity-fixing reliability. Conventional ambiguity-fixing methods generally employ fixed elevation masks, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) thresholds, observation weighting parameters, and INS uncertainty settings, and therefore have limited adaptability to rapidly changing observation environments. To address this limitation, this study proposes an adaptive optimization method for key ambiguity-fixing parameters based on Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) and a Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU), with the aim of improving ambiguity-fixing performance and solution reliability in complex urban scenarios. Methods: The adjustment of key ambiguity-fixing parameters is formulated as a Markov decision process. A continuous multi-epoch state sequence is constructed using online information on GNSS observation quality, navigation solution status, and ambiguity validation. A BiGRU network is employed to extract temporal features and dynamic variation patterns from the state sequence. The extracted features are then provided to the SAC agent, which learns a continuous parameter-adjustment policy through actor- critic optimization. According to the current observation conditions and solution status, the proposed method jointly adjusts the satellite elevation mask, SNR threshold, observation noise covariance, and INS attitude uncertainty. These parameters affect satellite selection, observation weighting, float ambiguity estimation, and ambiguity validation. Their coordinated optimization enables the ambiguity-fixing process to adapt dynamically to changes in satellite visibility and measurement quality. Results: Experiments were conducted in both open-sky and complex urban environments. The results show that the proposed method maintains positioning accuracy while improving ambiguity-fixing performance under open-sky conditions, indicating that adaptive parameter adjustment does not adversely affect the navigation solution under favorable observation conditions. In complex urban environments, compared with the conventional full ambiguity resolution scheme, the proposed method increases the ambiguity-fixing rate, correct-fix rate, and fixing success rate by 8.1, 9.1, and 3.3 percentage points, respectively, while reducing the false-fix rate by 1.0 percentage point. These results demonstrate that the proposed method simultaneously improves the availability of fixed solutions and the reliability of ambiguity fixing. Conclusions: The proposed SAC-BiGRU-based method combines the temporal feature extraction capability of BiGRU with the continuous decision-making capability of SAC, enabling state-dependent and coordinated adjustment of multiple ambiguity-fixing parameters. It addresses the limited adaptability of conventional methods based on fixed empirical parameters. The proposed method maintains stable positioning performance in open-sky scenarios and significantly improves ambiguity-fixing availability and reliability in complex urban environments. It therefore provides an effective approach for enhancing high-precision GNSS/INS integrated positioning under challenging observation conditions.

     

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