GPS Signal Acquisition and Tracking with Matlab
Liu Yang-yang1
1. Department of Electronics Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
1. liu_yang90@163.com
Abstract: Global Positioning System (GPS) is a navigation system which based on the satellite
constellation. In this paper, the principles of GPS signal acquisition have been studied, then three kinds
of acquisition algorithm have also been discussed, which include serial search acquisition, FFT
frequency domain capture method and the fast acquisition based on circular correlation. In tracking part,
phase-locked loop, carrier tracking loop and code tracking loop have been researched, then
two-order-locked carrier-assisted three-order phase-locked loop and two-order DLL code tracking loop
combination loop have been designed. In the end in Matlab, this paper prepares the acquisi