With the development of the Galileo satellite navigation system and the upgrade of GPS with new frequencies and capabilities, improved performance for professional applications is possible. This requires the availability of suited commercial GNSS receivers beyond the current state-of-the-art.

The ART-X project is focused to elaborate new innovative technologies and algorithms meeting the user demands for future professional receiver.

Objectives

• Evaluate different ways to professional receivers considering ASIC, FPGA and software receiver architectures
• Develop new concepts and algorithms for improving signal processing (e.g. multipath and interference detection & mitigation), but also improved navigation processing (e.g. RTK)
• Evaluate the new signal and navigation processing algorithms using a fast software receiver for implementation
• Develop a prototype FPGA-based GNSS receiver as platform for demonstrating and validating new concepts and algorithms. Due to other constraints like power, size, cost, which are not considered here, this activity is an intermediate step to the next generation of professional receiver
• Test the achievable performance using realistic environments (e.g. GATE, Galileo IOV and GPS IIF satellites)

Expected Results

• Innovative know-how for signal and navigation processing
• Architecture trade-off for the next generation of professional GNSS receiver
• Working FPGA based prototype platform