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Can one build a GPS reciever chip that uses the signals from GPS, GLONASS, EU and the Chinese navigation satellites?

In theory, there should then, assuming the EU/Chinese navigation systems have an equal amount of satellites as GPS/GLONASS, be always 24 or more satellites in view of the user - which should be enough to provide millimetre-precision positioning in real time.




You can already get a centimetre-precision for rather low money:

http://hackaday.com/2013/08/05/centimeter-level-precision-gp...

I have a friend who build an automatic lawnmower as his pet project at uni,and he used two GPS receivers to get <10cm accurancy which allowed the lawnmower to make automatic turns around the garden.


Can one build a GPS reciever chip that uses the signals from GPS, GLONASS, EU and the Chinese navigation satellites?

Multi-system GPS receivers have been around for some time now, and they're quite cheap: http://www.mirifica.it/store/mediatek-mt3333-gnss-receiver/5...

mm-level accuracy is more difficult, but even the accuracy specs of those cheap modules is usually rather conservative.




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