Re: GPS Solutions - A Paper

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

+1.   They ignored all the real world problems.  Explicitly assumed
perfect ranging, etc.

On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:35:32 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately they chose to publish with Elsevier.   However, at least
> they filed on arxiv, so people can read it:
> 
>   https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09261
> 
> The phys.org blurb is pretty atrocious.  While there's something of
> mathematical interest in the paper, and that's cool for math nerds and
> important for the fundamentals, it seems very disconnected from the
> issues that actually cause trouble.  In the paper, I was unable to
> find "tropo", "iono", "delay", "multipath", "multi-path".  Scanning
> it, I saw nothing about "map database is wrong".  That's totally fine
> for serious math, but it's irresponsible to conflate left vs right
> and driving into harbors with the theoretical possibility of finding
> a wrong solution due to a degenerate constellation.
> 
> 
> 




RGDS
GARY
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