GNSS Technologies

Max amount of FITech students: 50 adult learners

The course discusses various subjects on satellite positioning technology and receiver design, such as signal acquisition and tracking, measurement errors, and integration with INS.

Course contents

• GNSS signal structure: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou.
• How a receiver acquires and tracks the GNSS signal.
• Software receiver design principles.
• Multi-system receivers.
• Hands-on work with software receiver.
• Integration of GNSS with other positioning sensors (e.g., inertial); Kalman filter, tight vs. loose integration.
• Applications.
• Position estimation from GNSS and uncertainty, estimation techniques.
• Robustness and integrity issues.
• GNSS augmentation systems.

Learning outcomes

The objective of the course is that students

• gain a deeper understanding of satellite navigation systems and technologies (e.g. GPS, Galileo) that have wide applicability in today’s society and industry.
• understand receiver design issues in particular with a software GPS implementation.
• learn basics about GNSS/INS integration as well as GNSS with other positioning sensors.
• are able to analyze the performance of various positioning systems by applying the information and tools provided in the course.

Teaching schedule

On Fridays lectures at 8-10 and exercises 10-12.

Completion methods

Exam, exercises and course work assignment.

More information in University of Vaasa’s course page. Course schedule is available in Peppi, when implementation is published.

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