Radio-based vehicle dynamic tracking in GNSS degraded environments

The vehicular position information plays an important role in the vehicle communication. In open environments without signal blockage, global navigation satellite system (GNSS) has achieved on-road level accuracy and good reliability, However, the vehicle dynamic tracking is difficult in GNSS degraded environments. Usually, vehicle dynamic tracking consists of three portions: static positioning system, manoeuvring model and fusion algorithm. A radiobased positioning system aided by roadside units (RSUs) is employed as static positioning system, while the adaptive Kalman filter algorithm is used as fusion algorithm. In this paper, a new manoeuvring model is studied. Firstly, the problem of 'current' model is analysed. Secondly, a 'current-ellipse' manoeuvring model is proposed to adapt the strong and weak manoeuvring simultaneously. The experiments show that it can improve the tracking accuracy. Finally, a vehicle tracking case is discussed, its results show that root mean square error (RMSE) is smaller than 2 m, and the positioning accuracy can meet the position-based vehicular communication.