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However, there was no literature available on the complete modeling of the INS branch in the INS-aided tracking loop, which caused the lack of a theoretical tool to guide the selections of inertial sensors, parameter optimization and quantitative analysis of INS-aided PLLs. This paper makes an effort on the INS branch in modeling and parameter optimization of phase-locked loops (PLLs) based on the scalar-based GNSS\/INS deeply-coupled system. It establishes the transfer function between all known error sources and the PLL tracking error, which can be used to quantitatively evaluate the candidate inertial measurement unit (IMU) affecting the carrier phase tracking error. Based on that, a steady-state error model is proposed to design INS-aided PLLs and to analyze their tracking performance. Based on the modeling and error analysis, an integrated deeply-coupled hardware prototype is developed, with the optimization of the aiding information. Finally, the performance of the INS-aided PLLs designed based on the proposed steady-state error model is evaluated through the simulation and road tests of the hardware prototype.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s150100733","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,5]],"date-time":"2015-01-05T10:17:08Z","timestamp":1420453028000},"page":"733-759","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Modeling and Development of INS-Aided PLLs in a GNSS\/INS Deeply-Coupled Hardware Prototype for Dynamic Applications"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Tisheng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, No 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaoji","family":"Niu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, No 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yalong","family":"Ban","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, No 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hongping","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, No 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chuang","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, No 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jingnan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, No 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Kaplan, E., and Hegarty, C. 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