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// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
//! Position error ≈ σ_UERE × DOP: a seeded Monte Carlo consistency check of the engine's
//! least-squares fix against the analytic covariance of the DOP kernel.
//!
//! Under the stated model (independent, zero-mean Gaussian range errors of equal variance σ²)
//! the unweighted least-squares estimate of position and clock has covariance `σ²·Q` with
//! `Q = (HᵀH)⁻¹`, so the RMS error along each axis is σ times the matching DOP (Kaplan and
//! Hegarty (eds.), *Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications*, 2nd ed., Artech House,
//! 2006, ch. 7). [`run_geometry`] checks that the engine's solver,
//! [`crate::pvt::solve_spp`], with its seeded noise realises that covariance on one geometry:
//! it places the satellites at their elevation and azimuth 20,000 km from the user, draws `N`
//! epochs of range errors, solves each epoch from the true position, and returns the error
//! statistics beside `σ²·Q` from [`crate::orbit::dop_cofactor`], the covariance factor of the
//! DOP kernel VALIDATED against gnss_lib_py (`tests/dop_reference.rs`). No second DOP
//! implementation is involved: `Q` is that kernel's, projected onto its own East-North-Up
//! frame.
//!
//! [`check`] applies the tolerances of the 0.36 geometry design note
//! (`docs/design/2026-10-12-geometry-and-skyline-design.md`, section 5.2), fixed in a
//! pre-registration commit before the first run; each is a number of standard errors of the
//! statistic it bounds, stated with it in [`TOLERANCES`].
//!
//! The estimator is nonlinear (ranges, not their linearisation); at metre-level noise and
//! 2 × 10⁷ m range the second-order term is of order σ²/R ≈ 1e-7 m, far below the tolerances.
//!
//! **Status: a consistency check, MODELLED.** It shows the engine's estimator and noise
//! realise σ·DOP under the textbook model; it does not show that any receiver's error follows
//! that model, and σ_UERE is an input.
use crate::portable_distr::{Distribution, StandardNormal};
use crate::portable_math::PortableFloat;
use rand::SeedableRng;
use rand_chacha::ChaCha8Rng;
use serde::Serialize;
use crate::orbit::{dop, dop_cofactor, enu_basis, Dop};
use crate::pvt::{solve_spp, SppMeasurement};
/// What to run.
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize)]
pub struct McConfig {
/// Epochs per geometry.
pub trials: usize,
/// Range error standard deviation σ_UERE, m (an input; the check is of the relation).
pub sigma_m: f64,
/// Base seed; geometry `i` (from 0) draws from `ChaCha8Rng::seed_from_u64(seed + i)`.
pub seed: u64,
/// Negative control: each satellite's error has standard deviation `sigma_m / sin(el)`,
/// which breaks the equal-variance model the unweighted `Q` assumes.
pub elevation_dependent_errors: bool,
/// Negative control: the prediction uses `scale² · Q` (a DOP `scale` times too large).
/// 1 for the real check.
pub dop_scale: f64,
}
impl Default for McConfig {
/// The pre-registered run: N 20,000, σ 1.5 m, seed 36.
fn default() -> Self {
Self {
trials: 20_000,
sigma_m: 1.5,
seed: 36,
elevation_dependent_errors: false,
dop_scale: 1.0,
}
}
}
/// The error statistics of one geometry beside the analytic covariance.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize)]
pub struct GeometryResult {
/// The geometry's label.
pub label: String,
/// Satellites.
pub n_sats: usize,
/// The kernel's DOP for the geometry (unscaled).
pub dop: Dop,
/// Predicted variances `σ²·Q` (times `dop_scale²`) of east, north, up and clock, m².
pub predicted_var: [f64; 4],
/// Empirical mean squared errors of east, north, up and clock about the truth, m².
pub empirical_var: [f64; 4],
/// Empirical mean errors of east, north, up and clock, m.
pub mean: [f64; 4],
/// Predicted east-north correlation.
pub predicted_corr_en: f64,
/// Empirical east-north correlation.
pub empirical_corr_en: f64,
/// RMS horizontal, vertical and 3-D errors, m.
pub rms_hvp: [f64; 3],
/// σ × HDOP, σ × VDOP, σ × PDOP (times `dop_scale`), m.
pub predicted_rms_hvp: [f64; 3],
/// Fraction of epochs inside the predicted 95 % horizontal error ellipse.
pub frac_in_ellipse95: f64,
/// Epochs.
pub trials: usize,
/// Most Gauss-Newton iterations any epoch took.
pub max_iterations: usize,
}
/// One tolerance of the pre-registration: what it bounds, the bound, and its basis.
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize)]
pub struct Tolerance {
/// What is bounded.
pub quantity: &'static str,
/// The bound.
pub bound: f64,
/// Why this bound.
pub basis: &'static str,
}
/// The tolerances of the 0.36 geometry design note, section 5.2, fixed before the first run.
pub const TOLERANCES: [Tolerance; 5] = [
Tolerance {
quantity:
"relative error of each of the east, north, up and clock variances against sigma^2 Q_ii",
bound: 0.05,
basis: "5 standard errors of a sample variance at N = 20,000 (sqrt(2/N) = 1.0 %)",
},
Tolerance {
quantity: "relative error of the RMS against sigma x HDOP, sigma x VDOP, sigma x PDOP",
bound: 0.025,
basis: "half the variance bound",
},
Tolerance {
quantity: "absolute error of the east-north correlation against Q",
bound: 0.035,
basis: "5/sqrt(N)",
},
Tolerance {
quantity: "mean error per axis, in standard errors sigma_i/sqrt(N)",
bound: 5.0,
basis: "unbiasedness, 5 standard errors",
},
Tolerance {
quantity: "fraction inside the 95 % horizontal error ellipse, absolute error against 0.95",
bound: 0.0077,
basis: "5 binomial standard errors at N = 20,000",
},
];
/// χ²₂ quantile at 0.95: `-2 ln 0.05`, the squared Mahalanobis radius of the 95 % ellipse.
pub const CHI2_2_95: f64 = 5.991_464_547_107_979;
/// One check's outcome.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize)]
pub struct Check {
/// `var-e`, `var-n`, `var-u`, `var-t`, `rms-h`, `rms-v`, `rms-p`, `corr-en`, `mean-e`,
/// `mean-n`, `mean-u`, `mean-t`, `ellipse95`.
pub name: &'static str,
/// The statistic in the units of its bound (relative error, absolute error, or standard
/// errors).
pub value: f64,
/// The bound from [`TOLERANCES`].
pub bound: f64,
/// `|value| <= bound`.
pub pass: bool,
}
/// The pre-registered checks of one geometry.
pub fn check(r: &GeometryResult) -> Vec<Check> {
let mk = |name, value: f64, bound| Check {
name,
value,
bound,
pass: value.abs() <= bound,
};
let n = r.trials as f64;
let mut out = Vec::new();
for (i, name) in ["var-e", "var-n", "var-u", "var-t"].into_iter().enumerate() {
out.push(mk(
name,
r.empirical_var[i] / r.predicted_var[i] - 1.0,
TOLERANCES[0].bound,
));
}
for (i, name) in ["rms-h", "rms-v", "rms-p"].into_iter().enumerate() {
out.push(mk(
name,
r.rms_hvp[i] / r.predicted_rms_hvp[i] - 1.0,
TOLERANCES[1].bound,
));
}
out.push(mk(
"corr-en",
r.empirical_corr_en - r.predicted_corr_en,
TOLERANCES[2].bound,
));
for (i, name) in ["mean-e", "mean-n", "mean-u", "mean-t"]
.into_iter()
.enumerate()
{
out.push(mk(
name,
r.mean[i] / (r.predicted_var[i] / n).sqrt(),
TOLERANCES[3].bound,
));
}
out.push(mk(
"ellipse95",
r.frac_in_ellipse95 - 0.95,
TOLERANCES[4].bound,
));
out
}
fn dot(a: [f64; 3], b: [f64; 3]) -> f64 {
a[0] * b[0] + a[1] * b[1] + a[2] * b[2]
}
/// Run one geometry: satellites at `dirs` (`(elevation, azimuth)`, degrees) seen from `user`
/// (an inertial position; the local frame is [`crate::orbit::enu_basis`] there), with seed
/// `cfg.seed + index`.
pub fn run_geometry(
label: &str,
user: [f64; 3],
dirs: &[(f64, f64)],
index: u64,
cfg: &McConfig,
) -> Result<GeometryResult, String> {
if cfg.trials < 2 || !(cfg.sigma_m.is_finite() && cfg.sigma_m > 0.0) {
return Err("need at least 2 trials and a finite sigma_m > 0".into());
}
const RANGE: f64 = 2.0e7;
let (east, north, up) = enu_basis(user).ok_or("no local frame at the user")?;
let sats: Vec<[f64; 3]> = dirs
.iter()
.map(|&(el, az)| {
let (el, az) = (el.to_radians(), az.to_radians());
let l = [el.pcos() * az.psin(), el.pcos() * az.pcos(), el.psin()];
[
user[0] + RANGE * (l[0] * east[0] + l[1] * north[0] + l[2] * up[0]),
user[1] + RANGE * (l[0] * east[1] + l[1] * north[1] + l[2] * up[1]),
user[2] + RANGE * (l[0] * east[2] + l[1] * north[2] + l[2] * up[2]),
]
})
.collect();
let d = dop(user, &sats).ok_or_else(|| format!("{label}: singular geometry"))?;
let q = dop_cofactor(user, &sats).ok_or_else(|| format!("{label}: singular geometry"))?;
// Q in the local frame, clock last.
let qpos = |a: [f64; 3], b: [f64; 3]| -> f64 {
let mut v = 0.0;
for i in 0..3 {
for j in 0..3 {
v += a[i] * q[i][j] * b[j];
}
}
v
};
let k2 = cfg.dop_scale * cfg.dop_scale;
let s2 = cfg.sigma_m * cfg.sigma_m * k2;
let (q_ee, q_nn, q_en) = (qpos(east, east), qpos(north, north), qpos(east, north));
let predicted_var = [s2 * q_ee, s2 * q_nn, s2 * qpos(up, up), s2 * q[3][3]];
// Inverse of the predicted horizontal covariance, for the 95 % ellipse.
let det = s2 * (q_ee * q_nn - q_en * q_en);
let inv = [[q_nn / det, -q_en / det], [-q_en / det, q_ee / det]];
let ranges: Vec<f64> = sats
.iter()
.map(|s| {
((s[0] - user[0]).ppowi(2) + (s[1] - user[1]).ppowi(2) + (s[2] - user[2]).ppowi(2))
.sqrt()
})
.collect();
let scale: Vec<f64> = dirs
.iter()
.map(|(el, _)| {
if cfg.elevation_dependent_errors {
1.0 / el.to_radians().psin().max(0.05)
} else {
1.0
}
})
.collect();
// A clock offset of 30 km (100 µs), so the clock state is exercised.
let clock_m = 30_000.0;
let mut rng = ChaCha8Rng::seed_from_u64(cfg.seed.wrapping_add(index));
let (mut sq, mut sum) = ([0.0_f64; 4], [0.0_f64; 4]);
let (mut cross_en, mut inside, mut max_it) = (0.0_f64, 0usize, 0usize);
for _ in 0..cfg.trials {
let meas: Vec<SppMeasurement> = sats
.iter()
.zip(&ranges)
.zip(&scale)
.map(|((s, r), k)| {
let eps: f64 = StandardNormal.sample(&mut rng);
SppMeasurement {
sat_ecef: *s,
pseudorange_m: r + clock_m + cfg.sigma_m * k * eps,
sat_clock_m: 0.0,
iono_m: 0.0,
tropo_m: 0.0,
weight: 1.0,
}
})
.collect();
let fix = solve_spp(&meas, user).ok_or_else(|| format!("{label}: no fix"))?;
max_it = max_it.max(fix.iterations);
let dx = [
fix.ecef[0] - user[0],
fix.ecef[1] - user[1],
fix.ecef[2] - user[2],
];
let e = [
dot(dx, east),
dot(dx, north),
dot(dx, up),
fix.clock_bias_m - clock_m,
];
for i in 0..4 {
sq[i] += e[i] * e[i];
sum[i] += e[i];
}
cross_en += e[0] * e[1];
let m2 = e[0] * (inv[0][0] * e[0] + inv[0][1] * e[1])
+ e[1] * (inv[1][0] * e[0] + inv[1][1] * e[1]);
if m2 <= CHI2_2_95 {
inside += 1;
}
}
let n = cfg.trials as f64;
let empirical_var = sq.map(|x| x / n);
let s = cfg.sigma_m * cfg.dop_scale;
Ok(GeometryResult {
label: label.to_string(),
n_sats: dirs.len(),
dop: d,
predicted_var,
empirical_var,
mean: sum.map(|x| x / n),
predicted_corr_en: q_en / (q_ee * q_nn).sqrt(),
empirical_corr_en: (cross_en / n) / (empirical_var[0] * empirical_var[1]).sqrt(),
rms_hvp: [
(empirical_var[0] + empirical_var[1]).sqrt(),
empirical_var[2].sqrt(),
(empirical_var[0] + empirical_var[1] + empirical_var[2]).sqrt(),
],
predicted_rms_hvp: [s * d.hdop, s * d.vdop, s * d.pdop],
frac_in_ellipse95: inside as f64 / n,
trials: cfg.trials,
max_iterations: max_it,
})
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn the_ellipse_quantile_is_minus_two_ln_alpha() {
assert!((CHI2_2_95 - (-2.0 * 0.05_f64.pln())).abs() < 1e-12);
assert!((crate::raim::chi2_quantile(0.95, 2.0) - CHI2_2_95).abs() < 1e-6);
}
#[test]
fn a_short_run_is_deterministic_and_rejects_bad_input() {
let user = [6_371_000.0, 0.0, 0.0];
let dirs = [
(90.0, 0.0),
(20.0, 0.0),
(20.0, 120.0),
(20.0, 240.0),
(45.0, 60.0),
];
let cfg = McConfig {
trials: 200,
..McConfig::default()
};
let a = run_geometry("t", user, &dirs, 0, &cfg).unwrap();
assert_eq!(a, run_geometry("t", user, &dirs, 0, &cfg).unwrap());
assert_eq!(check(&a).len(), 13);
let bad = McConfig {
trials: 1,
..McConfig::default()
};
assert!(run_geometry("t", user, &dirs, 0, &bad).is_err());
}
}