Putting the Synthetic Global Navigation Satellite System Meta-Signal Paradigm into Practice: Application to Automotive Market Devices

The synthetic meta-signal reconstruction approach enables the generation of wideband Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) measurements from side-band observations. This approach is of particular interest for automotive market devices where, for instance, hardware constraints do not allow full-band Galileo Alternative Binary Offset Carrier (Alt-BOC) processing. In this paper, the applicability of the synthetic GNSS meta-signal paradigm is extended by introducing a half-cycle ambiguity detector for the reconstructed carrier phases and a jump detector for the pseudoranges. These accessories make the reconstruction approach more robust and suitable for mass market devices. Tests conducted using the STMicroelectronics TeseoV receiver demonstrate the validity and potential of this approach.