Design of the discriminator for tracking the loop under short-delay multipath interference

The traditional multipath eliminating methods have poor performance under short-delay multipath interference and therefore a discriminator constructing method for tracking the loop is presented. Firstly, from the analysis of the output characteristics for in-phase/quadrature-phase early, late, and prompt channels under the short-delay multipath, an improved late channel is constructed. The output of the loop discriminator is defined as the normalized function of the power difference between early and late signals. It made the error between the code phase of the direct signal and that of the local estimated signal is less than the pre-determined threshold. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that, compared to traditional methods, the multipath mitigation technique based on the improved loop discriminator can suppress the code tracking errors produced by the multipath when the relative delay is less than 0.5 chip and effectively inhibits short-delay multipath interference, thus improving the tracking and measurement accuracy in navigation and docking systems.