Relay platform for transmitting positioning signals to rovers with an optimized radiation pattern

    公开(公告)号:US11543536B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US16958688

    申请日:2018-12-14

    Abstract: An antenna assembly configured to transmit terrestrial positioning signals from a relay platform having a frame of reference, the transmit being in at least a first mode with a radiating pattern having at least a main lobe having a narrow aperture in a plane and a wide aperture in a plane. A relay platform comprising a receiver of a synchronization signal, a transmitter of positioning signals to an area of service comprising a number of rovers, and an antenna assembly configured to produce a radiating pattern adapted to transmit the positioning signals as a function of the environment of the relay platform and the rovers. In a number of embodiments the relay platforms may be organized in a network of platforms, possibly of masters and slaves that receive feed-back from the rovers in the AoS so as to optimize the configuration of the antenna elements dynamically to optimize the QoS of positioning based on a number of selected quality indexes.

    GNSS receiver using a combination of velocity integration and precise point positioning

    公开(公告)号:US10942281B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-09

    申请号:US16089814

    申请日:2017-03-31

    Abstract: The invention discloses an improved GNSS receiver which determines a location of the receiver by combining a first location determined either from the standard PVT of a multi-frequency receiver and/or from a positioning aid like a map matching algorithm, inertial navigation system, WiFi localization system or other, and a second location determined by integrating the velocity from the standard PVT. The combination is based on a duty cycle or a combination of the duty cycle with a weighting of the error budgets of the first position and the second location. The improved receiver is preferably based on a standard receiver with an add-on software module which receives and processes data transmitted from the standard receiver by, for example, NMEA messages. The improved receiver allows a determination of a more precise and smoother trajectory in a simple way.

    Telecommunications satellite, beamforming method and method for manufacturing a satellite payload

    公开(公告)号:US10887004B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-05

    申请号:US16620066

    申请日:2018-06-08

    Inventor: Vincent Tugend

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a telecommunications satellite intended for being placed in earth orbit, comprising an antenna comprising a reflector and a network of sources. In addition, said satellite comprises adaptive analog beamforming networks, said adaptive analog beamforming networks being connected to respective groups of sources other than the network of sources. Each adaptive analog beamforming network is suitable for simultaneously activating a predetermined number of beams serving respective geographic zones inside a geographic region on Earth's surface. Each of group of sources comprises sources shared with other groups of sources, and at least one geographic region has a geographic overlap of at least 30% with other geographic regions.

    TELECOMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE, BEAMFORMING METHOD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SATELLITE PAYLOAD

    公开(公告)号:US20200382205A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-03

    申请号:US16620066

    申请日:2018-06-08

    Inventor: Vincent TUGEND

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a telecommunications satellite intended for being placed in earth orbit, comprising an antenna comprising a reflector and a network of sources. In addition, said satellite comprises adaptive analog beamforming networks, said adaptive analog beamforming networks being connected to respective groups of sources other than the network of sources. Each adaptive analog beamforming network is suitable for simultaneously activating a predetermined number of beams serving respective geographic zones inside a geographic region on Earth's surface. Each of group of sources comprises sources shared with other groups of sources, and at least one geographic region has a geographic overlap of at least 30% with other geographic regions.

    RECEIVER-INDEPENDENT SPOOFING DETECTION DEVICE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200371247A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-26

    申请号:US16771210

    申请日:2018-12-11

    Abstract: A device and the associated method for detecting spoofing of GNSS signals are provided. The device includes an RF chain to acquire and down convert a signal comprising one or more GNSS signals transmitted by GNSS sources, each of the GNSS signals comprising a navigation message modulated by a spreading code associated to a related GNSS source, an analog to digital converter, to digitize the down converted signal, and a computer logic, to: calculate over a grid of spreading code phase delays and Doppler shifts, cross-correlation functions between the digitized signal and locally generated replicas of the signal, for one or more of the spreading codes, identify cross-correlation peaks, and analyze the cross-correlation peaks to detect spoofing situations.

    GNSS RECEIVER WITH A CAPABILITY TO RESOLVE AMBIGUITIES USING AN UNCOMBINED FORMULATION

    公开(公告)号:US20200041658A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-06

    申请号:US15738926

    申请日:2016-06-22

    Abstract: The invention discloses a receiver and a method to process navigation signals from one or more GNSS constellation, wherein an observation model and a measurement model allow a direct calculation of the carrier phase ambiguities. More specifically, in a triple frequency implementation, the receiver calculates in turn the extrawidelane, widelane and narrowlane ambiguities. The code and carrier phase biases can also be directly calculated. Thanks to the invention a quicker acquisition and tracking of a precise position, which will also be less noisy than a prior art solution, especially in some embodiments of the invention using a RAIM and/or a gap-bridging function. Also, code smoothing using the Doppler and low latency clock synchronization allow to decrease the noise levels of the precise point navigation solutions.

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