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GNSS/INS Kalman Filter Integrity Monitoring with Uncertain Time Correlated Error Processes

Safety-critical navigation applications require that estimation errors be reliably quantified and bounded. Over the last decade, significant effort has been put to guarantee a bounded position estimation by using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) ...

EPFL2022

Error Augmentation Improves Visuomotor Adaptation during a Full-Body Balance Task

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Oliver Alan Kannape, Jemina Fasola

Visual amplification of kinematic errors has successfully been applied to improve performance for upper limb movements. In this study, we investigated whether visual error augmentation can promote faster adaptation during a full-body balance task. Healthy ...

IEEE2019

Estimation of the centre of mass kinematics in alpine ski racing using inertial and magnetic sensors

Kamiar Aminian, Benedikt Fasel

For performance analysis in alpine ski racing, an accurate and precise estimation of the centre of mass (CoM) kinematics is indispensable. Currently available systems satisfying this need are video-based stereo-photogrammetry or differential global navigat ...

2017

GPS Based Navigation Performance Analysis within and beyond the Space Service Volume for Different Transmitters’ Antenna Patterns

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Paul David Blunt, Endrit Shehaj

In recent years, global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based navigation in high earth orbits (HEOs) has become a field of research interest since it can increase the spacecraft’s autonomy, thereby reducing the operating costs. However, the GNSS availab ...

2017

Performance assessment of integrated sensor orientation with a low-cost GNSS receiver

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

Mapping with Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs whose weight does not exceed 5 kg) is gaining importance in applications such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline inspections, or mapping of large areas with homogeneous surface structure, e.g. forest or agricult ...

Copernicus GmbH2017

High accuracy GNSS based navigation in GEO

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Paul David Blunt, Endrit Shehaj

Although significant improvements in efficiency and performance of communication satellites have been achieved in the past decades, it is expected that the demand for new platforms in Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and for the On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) on the ex ...

Elsevier2017

Assessment of positioning accuracy of vehicle trajectories for different road applications

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Philipp Clausen

Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) has become a kind of positioning standard due to the high penetration rate of this technology on mass market intelligent transportation systems (ITS) applications. However, this positioning technique remains a rea ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2017

Three-Dimensional Body and Centre of Mass Kinematics in Alpine Ski Racing Using Differential GNSS and Inertial Sensors

Kamiar Aminian, Benedikt Fasel, Julien Chardonnens

A key point in human movement analysis is measuring the trajectory of a person’s center of mass (CoM). For outdoor applications, differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) can be used for tracking persons since they allow measuring the traject ...

MDPI2016

The SaPPART COST Action: Towards positioning integrity for road transport

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is becoming one of the main components supporting Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and value-added services in road transport and personal mobility. The use of GNSS is expected to grow significantly due to impr ...

IEEE2016

Determination of the centre of mass kinematics in alpine skiing using differential global navigation satellite systems

Julien Chardonnens

In the sport of alpine skiing, knowledge about the centre of mass (CoM) kinematics (i.e. position, velocity and acceleration) is essential to better understand both performance and injury. This study proposes a global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-bas ...

Taylor & Francis2015

An Efficient Time-frequency Algorithm for the Weak Signal Acquisition of Modernized GNSS Signals

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère, Vincenzo Capuano, Jia Tian, Yanguang Wang

The new GPS/Galileo/Compass signals use much longer code lengths and higher code frequencies than the GPS L1 C/A signal. As a result, they can provide improved ranging and anti-jamming performances. Unfortunately, their acquisition complexity is significan ...

2014

Implementation and Performance of a GPS/INS Tightly Coupled Assisted PLL Architecture Using MEMS Inertial Sensors

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Phillip Tomé, Youssef Tawk, Yannick Stebler

The use of global navigation satellite system receivers for navigation still presents many challenges in urban canyon and indoor environments, where satellite availability is typically reduced and received signals are attenuated. To improve the navigation ...

Mdpi Ag2014

Determination of External Forces in Alpine Skiing Using a Differential Global Navigation Satellite System

Julien Chardonnens

In alpine ski racing the relationships between skier kinetics and kinematics and their effect on performance and injury-related aspects are not well understood. There is currently no validated system to determine all external forces simultaneously acting o ...

Mdpi Ag2013

Advanced Algorithmic and Architecture Designs for Future Satellite Navigation Receivers

Youssef Tawk

The use of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers for navigation still presents many challenges, in particular in urban canyon and indoor environments where satellite availability is reduced and received signals are usually much atten- uated. ...

EPFL2013

Cooperative navigation in robotic swarms

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Philippe Rétornaz

We study cooperative navigation for robotic swarms in the context of a general event-servicing scenario. In the scenario, one or more events need to be serviced at specific locations by robots with the required skills. We focus on the question of how the s ...

Springer Verlag2013

Method to secure gnss based locations in a device having gnss receiver

Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Aleksandar Jovanovic

A method to detect at a GNSS receiver whether the received GNSS signals and navigation messages are the product of an attack. If there is evidence, as provided by the method described here, that the received signals and messages originate from adversarial ...

2012

SEARCHING LOST PEOPLE WITH UAVS: THE SYSTEM AND RESULTS OF THE CLOSE-SEARCH PROJECT

Jan Skaloud

This paper will introduce the goals, concept and results of the project named CLOSE-SEARCH, which stands for ’Accurate and safe EGNOS-SoL Navigation for UAV-based low-cost Search-And-Rescue (SAR) operations’. The main goal is to integrate a medium-size, he ...

2012

Two-Step Galileo E1 CBOC Tracking Algorithm:When Reliability and Robustness Are Keys!

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic

The majority of 3G mobile phones have an integrated GPS chip enabling them to calculate a navigation solution. But to deliver continuous and accurate location information, the satellite tracking process has to be stable and reliable. This is still challeng ...

2012

An Assisted-GNSS Solution for Demanding Road Applications using the EGNOS Data Access System (EDAS)

Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

This paper describes a prototype solution which has been developed to provide both the positioning availability and integrity required for this application. The SIGNATURE (SImple GNSS Assisted & TrUsted REceiver) solution includes an assistance service whi ...

2010

An Assisted-GNSS Solution for Demanding Road Applications using the EGNOS Data Access System (EDAS)

Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

Roads right across Europe are becoming more congested and governments and regional authorities are looking for ways to better manage the existing road network. One tool that is being increasingly promoted to tackle the congestion challenge is Road User Cha ...

2010