To address the challenge that prolonged interruptions of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals—such as those caused by urban obstructions—hinder signal re-locking and thereby reduce the number of available satellites for integrity monitoring algorithms, this study proposes an inertial navigation-assisted GNSS re-locking method based on vehicle motion information constraints. This method leverages vehicle motion constraints to confine the primary direction of Inertial Navigation System (INS) velocity errors to the vehicle’s forward direction. Upon GNSS signal recovery, frequency error compensation is employed to mitigate Doppler errors of the previously obstructed satellites. Simulation results show that this method significantly improves the re-lock capability after a long period of satellite signal interruption, increasing the number of available satellites from 7 to 10 and optimizing the satellite geometry. At a horizontal alarm threshold of 80 m, the availability of the GNSS integrity monitoring algorithm reaches 95.7%, which is 53.7 percentage points higher than the unassisted scheme. Moreover, it can achieve 100% fault detection and identification rate even with a pseudorange deviation of 82 m, significantly improving the performance of the integrity monitoring algorithm.
Zhang et al. (Mon,) studied this question.