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Avalanche noise diodes: A compact circuit model compatible with advanced CAD tools

Christian Enz, Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Gabriele Tasselli

This paper proposes, for the first time, a compact model for avalanche noise diodes that can easily be inserted in advanced CAD tools. The model is based on the theory of the Read type microwave avalanche diodes. It fully accounts for the electronic tuning ...

IEEE2015

Design Methodology for Controlled-Q Resonators in OTA-based Filters

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Gabriele Tasselli, Saeed Ghamari

This paper presents a design methodology for high quality factor resonators based on operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) employed in active filters. The quality factor of a resonator, as its main specification, is translated to the requirements of ...

IEEE2015

UWB-based Local Positioning System: from a small-scale Experimental Platform to a large-scale Deployable System

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Phillip Tomé, Christian Robert

A few years ago an experimental platform was designed and built in order to demonstrate the feasibility of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology applied to indoor positioning. This small-scale demonstrator proved to be a valuable research tool with the flexibili ...

2010

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

An adaptive GNSS-based reduced dynamic approach for real time autonomous navigation from the Earth to the Moon

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

In this research study we describe our last effort in further improving the achievable Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based navigation performance in an Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit (MTO). The GNSS-based orbital filter we implemented previously wit ...

2017

Cramer-Rao bounds for the estimation of multipath parameters and mobiles' positions in asynchronous DS-CDMA systems

Cyril Botteron

Commercial applications for the location of subscribers of wireless services continue to expand. Consequently, finding the Cramer–Rao lower bound (CRLB), which serves as an optimality criterion for the location estimation problem, is of interest. In this p ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2004

Path-loss and car-body-effect characterization for smart tires communications at UWB and ISM bands

Yi Guo, Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Christian Robert, Gabriele Tasselli, Saeed Ghamari

Next generation of smart tires will improve the safety and stability of the vehicle by monitoring road parameters, such as pavement and rolling conditions, with sensors placed on tire surface. Between the tread and the metal belt of the tire there are only ...

IEEE2014

A novel low complexity data demodulation algorithm for pulse position modulation

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron

In this paper, a low complexity data demodulation algorithm is proposed that requires time of arrival information of the received signal exclusively. As an application example, the algorithm is applied to an ultra-wideband impulse radio communication syste ...

2012

FEASIBILITY STUDY OF GNSS AS NAVIGATION SYSTEM TO REACH THE MOON

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano

Reaching the Moon poses very strict requirements in terms of performance, flexibility and cost for all the spacecraft subsystems. These requirements become more stringent if the mission is designed to be accomplished using a small spacecraft. The navigatio ...

Elsevier2015

Real-time Carrier Generation for a GNSS Software Receiver

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron

The growing market of GNSS capable mobile devices is driving the interest of software receiver solutions as they can share many resources with other system units, reducing both the size and the cost of their integration. However, a major issue with the sof ...

2009

Requirements and Analysis for a Robust E1 Galileo Tracking Algorithm in the Scope of the GAMMA-A Project

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Youssef Tawk

FP7 GAMMA-A project is a European project with the objective to develop a 3-frequency GPS/Galileo receiver concept for automotive mass-market applications. This receiver shall build on the excellent properties of the new and modernized wide-band Galileo an ...

Inst Navigation, 815 15Th Th St Nw, Ste 832, Washington, Dc 20005 Usa2010

A low-cost UWB sensor node powered by a piezoelectric harvester or solar cells

Nico de Rooij, Anja Skrivervik, Danick Briand, Pierre-André Farine, Franz-Josef Haug, Cyril Botteron, Pattanaphong Janphuang, Robert Andrew Lockhart, Christian Robert, Gabriele Tasselli

We propose an autonomous battery-less wireless sensor node that combines on a single printed circuit board an ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter and its printed antenna, together with a piezoelectric cantilever and a solar cell array to harvest vibrations an ...

Elsevier2016

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

FFT Splitting for Improved FPGA-Based Acquisition of GNSS Signals

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

With modern global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals, the FFT-based parallel code search acquisition must handle the frequent sign transitions due to the data or the secondary code. There is a straightforward solution to this problem, which consis ...

2015

Contribution to the Worldwide multimodal SBAS standard

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Youssef Tawk

Several studies have been done or have been started in order to extend the current aeronautical Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) DO-229D Minimum Operational Performance Specification (MOPS) SBAS standard mainly defined by the Radio Technical ComiteeC ...

2009

Orbital Filter Aiding of a High Sensitivity GPS Receiver for Lunar Missions

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

Recent studies have shown that weak Global Navigation Satellites System (GNSS) signals could potentially be used to navigate from the Earth to the Moon. This would increase autonomy, robustness and flexibility of the navigation architectures for future lun ...

Institute Of Navigation2016

Dual Channel Optimization of Tracking Schemes for E1 CBOC Signal

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Youssef Tawk

New generation of satellite navigation signals, such as AltBOC (Alternative Binary Offset Keying), CBOC (Composite Binary Offset Keying) and TMBOC (Time Multiplex Binary Offset Keying) bring enhancements in the tracking process, such as more signal power, ...

IEEE2011

GNSS Multipath Estimation and Mitigation Using a Rotating Antenna

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo

We describe the experimental framework that we have developed to study the use of synthetic aperture in GNSS receivers to estimate and mitigate multipath interference. By combining the signal received by a single moving antenna during different time instan ...

2017

Looking Inside Modern Receivers

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron

The principle of wireless communications originates from the need to communicate between two points separated by a distance sufficiently large to prevent the use of wires. This article talks about modern receivers in which the basic building blocks of mode ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Orbital Filter Aiding of a High Sensitivity GPS Receiver for Lunar Missions

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

Recent studies have shown that weak Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals could potentially be used to navigate from the Earth to the Moon. This would increase autonomy, robustness and flexibility of the navigation architectures for future luna ...

Wiley Periodicals, Inc2017