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For prior-map-free situations, as the only sensor with a global frame, RTK determines and maintains the global positioning precision of the integrated system. However, RTK performance degrades greatly in GNSS-challenged environments, and most of the existing integrated systems adopt loose coupling mode, which does nothing to improve RTK and, thus, prevents integrated systems from further improvement. Aiming at improving RTK performance in the RTK\/LiDAR\/INS integrated system, we proposed an innovative integrated algorithm that utilizes RTK to register LiDAR features while integrating the pre-registered LiDAR features to RTK and adopts parallel filters in the ambiguity-position-joint domain to weaken the effects of low satellite availability, cycle slips, and multipath. By doing so, we can improve the RTK fix rate and stability in GNSS-challenged environments. The results of the theoretical analyses, simulation experiments, and a road test proved that the proposed method improved RTK performance in GNSS-challenged environments and, thus, guaranteed the global positioning precision of the whole system.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13102013","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,20]],"date-time":"2021-05-20T11:45:57Z","timestamp":1621511157000},"page":"2013","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Feature-Aided RTK\/LiDAR\/INS Integrated Positioning System with Parallel Filters in the Ambiguity-Position-Joint Domain for Urban Environments"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7921-9504","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wenyi","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaowei","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"given":"Mingquan","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Boginski, V.L. 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