A signal selection method for heterogeneous positioning sources

It can receive different signals in multi-system positioning. There might be dozens, even hundreds of signal sources. It is a great computation burden of hardware to process so many signals. On the other hands, the positioning accuracy of different signal systems is different; the worse signal may affect the positioning accuracy if there are too many signal sources. So it is necessary to select the better signal sources for positioning. This paper proposed a signal selection method for heterogeneous positioning sources. It combines the factors which affect the positioning accuracy to a function. Then assess the quality of the signals and select the best source set. The simulation results showed the efficiency of the algorithm.