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In order to ensure high tracking accuracy of a receiver in a complex environment, this paper proposes a new tracking loop combining the vector FLL (VFLL) with a robust least squares method, which accurately matches the weights of received signals of different qualities to ensure high positioning accuracy. The weights of received signals are selected at the signal level, not at the observation level. In this paper, the ranges of strong and weak signals of the loop are determined according to the different expressions of the distribution function at different signal strengths, and the concept of loop segmentation is introduced. The segmentation results of the FLL are taken as a basis of the weight selection, and then combined with the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics (IGGIII) weight function to obtain the equivalent weight matrix; the experiments are conducted to prove the advantages of the proposed method over the traditional methods. 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