Journal Article

XAI GNSS—A Comprehensive Study on Signal Quality Assessment of GNSS Disruptions Using Explainable AI Technique

Elango, Arul, Landry, Rene Jr

2024

Overview

The hindering of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signal reception by jamming and spoofing attacks degrades the signal quality. Careful attention needs to be paid when post-processing the signal under these circumstances before feeding the signal into the GNSS receiver’s post-processing stage. The identification of the time domain statistical attributes and the spectral domain characteristics play a vital role in analyzing the behaviour of the signal characteristics under various kinds of jamming attacks, spoofing attacks, and multipath scenarios. In this paper, the signal records of five disruptions (pure, continuous wave interference (CWI), multi-tone continuous wave interference (MCWI), multipath (MP), spoofing, pulse, and chirp) are examined, and the most influential features in both the time and frequency domains are identified with the help of explainable AI (XAI) models. Different Machine learning (ML) techniques were employed to assess the importance of the features to the model’s prediction. From the statistical analysis, it has been observed that the usage of the SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and local interpretable model-agnostic explanations (LIME) models in GNSS signals to test the types of disruption in unknown GNSS signals, using only the best-correlated and most important features in the training phase, provided a better classification accuracy in signal prediction compared to traditional feature selection methods. This XAI model reveals the black-box ML model’s output prediction and provides a clear explanation of the specific signal occurrences based on the individual feature contributions. By using this black-box revealer, we can easily analyze the behaviour of the GNSS ground-station signals and employ fault detection and resilience diagnosis in GNSS post-processing.

• Publisher: MDPI AG
• Subject: Algorithms / Analysis / Artificial intelligence / Artificial satellites in navigation / Classification / Comparative analysis / Datasets / Deep learning / explainable AI / Forecasts and trends / Global positioning systems / GNSS / GPS / Ground stations / Identification and classification / interference / interpretability / jamming / Jamming of communications / Machine learning / Methods / Navigation systems / Safety and security measures / Satellite communications / Signal processing / Spread spectrum / Technology application / Time series