Abstract:
The invention discloses a receiver of GNSS positioning signals which has embedded computer logic to select between a first operating mode, which uses all available frequencies, and a second operating mode, which uses only part of the available frequencies but in combination with available correction data. The selection is based on a comparison of an index of quality of reception at the receiver and a computed or predicted precision/confidence level of the corrections. A plurality of corrections types are possible, including a type using a local model and a type using collaborative corrections. In some embodiments, a selection and/or a combination of a plurality of local models may be made to optimize the accuracy of the corrections.
Abstract:
A band-pass filter for microwave is provided that can be frequency-tuned the filter comprising an input resonator comprising a metal input cavity and an input dielectric element, an output resonator comprising a metal output cavity and an output dielectric element, an input excitation means (S1) of elongate shape, an output excitation means of elongate shape, the input resonator and the output resonator being coupled, characterized in that the input dielectric element and the output dielectric element have a recess, the input excitation means penetrates the recess of the input dielectric element the output excitation means penetrates the recess of the output dielectric element, the input dielectric element is capable of carrying out a rotation about an input rotation axis, the rotations of the dielectric elements allowing the modification of the central frequency of the filter.
Abstract:
A device for thermally insulating a piece of equipment, the device including a block of thermal insulation having at least a first hole; a deformable cover made of a gastight material and surrounding the block of insulation so that the wall of the first hole is covered by the gastight cover while leaving open the ends of first hole, the cover defining, at the second end, a first opening that communicates with the first hole and a second opening that communicates with the space situated between the insulating block and the cover; and the first and second openings of the cover being closed in gastight manner with the inside of the cover under a partial vacuum.
Abstract:
A method for characterizing an optical focusing defect of an image capture instrument is based on contrast values. Said contrast values are calculated for two images of a same scene portion, captured in respective overlapping length segments of two image sensors. To this end, the sensors are mounted in an image capture instrument so that the overlapping length segments between the sensors are situated at different heights along a focusing direction perpendicular to said sensors.
Abstract:
A device is provided for unfurling and refurling comprising at least one tape spring having an axis of unfurling and of refurling parallel to an axis X and a rotor capable of rotating about an axis Y perpendicular to the axis X, the tape spring being able, autonomously, to pass from a state in which it is wound around the rotor to an unwound state. The tape spring is mounted bent in two in the shape of a U and comprises a first end fixed rigidly to a first anchor point that may be secured to a stator or to the rotor and a second end wound around the rotor.
Abstract:
A method includes estimating a position of a receiver, aboard a moving object, on the basis of the navigation signals emitted by satellites received by an antenna in an antenna array placed on the moving object, and using a three-dimensional geographical map to deduce, geometrically, on the basis of the position of the receiver and of a ray casting starting from the receiver, the number of paths reflected on walls of buildings present in a scene corresponding to an environment surrounding the receiver. The determined number of reflected paths is used to initialize an algorithm for estimating angles of arrival of multi-paths to deduce therefrom angles of arrival of the paths reflected on the walls before reaching the receiver. Optionally, the method can comprise making it possible to bound the distance information error due to a multi-path to render the estimation of direction of arrival of the signals more efficacious.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a multi port router device capable of carrying a number P, which is greater than or equal to three, of frequency channels, from a number M of input ports to a number N of output ports, at least one of the two numbers M and N being greater than or equal to two, characterised in that it includes at least two filters (12, 14, 16, 18), each filter comprising at least two coupled resonators, at least one resonator (Rs1, Rs2) being common to two different filters, and each input port and each output port being connected directly to at least one resonator. The router device is capable of appropriately performing routing in which it is possible to supply on at least one output port an output multiplex having at least a first and a second frequency channel, among which: the first frequency channel has originated from a first input multiplex, supplied on a first input port and comprising said first frequency channel, and at least one further frequency channel forwarded to a second output port of the device; and the second frequency channel is either forwarded from a second input port, or, when the first input multiplex comprises at least three different multiplexed frequency channels, the second frequency channel originates from the first input multiplex, the first second frequency channels, being frequentially disposed on both sides of a third frequency channel, with the said third frequency channel being routed to a different output port.
Abstract:
A method includes estimating the position of the moving object on the basis of the reception of navigation signals emitted by a constellation of satellites, the navigation signals being modulated by a code and the receiver comprising a local replica of the code. The determination of the confidence indicator consists in estimating a speed of displacement of the receiver over an identified trajectory segment, deducing therefrom a Doppler delay function corresponding to the motion of the receiver, in correcting the auto-correlation function of the GNSS navigation signal received from each satellite of the constellation by means of the delay function, in comparing the corrected auto-correlation function with a theoretical auto-correlation function by applying a quadratic criterion corresponding to the confidence indicator.
Abstract:
An ion propulsion device including emission modules in an emission plane, each module having an insulating support, an emission electrode on the support, and a conductive liquid with a microfluidic channel depositing conductive liquid on the electrode; an extraction electrode common to the emission modules and facing the modules; and a control unit, in which each module is configured to emit an ion beam when an electric field is applied to the liquid; each control unit controls an ion emission current emitted by applying a potential difference between each emission electrode and the extraction electrode; the emission electrodes are spaced apart by a linear distance that is greater than a distance between two adjacent emission electrodes separated by an empty space; and a length of the insulating support between the electrodes is greater than a propagation distance of an electric leakage current by charge jumping along the support between the electrodes.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a generator for generating an anti-Kerr modulated light signal, including a primary light source having four longitudinal modes or fewer and configured to generate a light signal and a modulator configured to modulate the power of the light signal by way of a square-wave or rectangular-wave control signal the duty cycle of which is less than or equal to 50%, and which are adapted such that the modulated light signal is periodic and has: —at a first point of the signal, a first power value equal to the product of its average power and a gain between 1.6 and 2.4; —at a second point of the signal, a second, non-zero power value, that is different from the first power value. Also disclosed is a modulation method and to a measuring device.