Fundamental Elements Info Day Prague, 8 March 2016

1. INTRODUCTION TO THE CALL
FOR PROPOSALS
Alina Hriscu
GSA Market Development

2. DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-END
PROFESSIONAL RECEIVERS AND
CORRESPONDING ANTENNAS
GSA/GRANT/01/2016

3. Agenda
 Objectives
 Professional receivers and antennas
 Use case scenarios
 Timeline
 Budget allocation
 Eligible participants
 Deliverables

4. Objectives of the Call for Proposals
1. Develop and test high-end state-of-the-art, all-constellation, all-frequency
professional receivers including specific Galileo differentiators for use case
scenarios, as described below.
2. Develop (or upgrade existing versions) the corresponding high-end state-
of-the-art, all-constellation, all-frequency professional antenna
3. Integrate, test and validate the receivers and antennas
Exploit the specific E-GNSS (and EGNOS whenever possible)
differentiators
Receiver-antenna close to market final products for dedicated use
cases scenarios

5. Develop products for 3 use case
scenarios
• The applicants are requested to pre-analyse use case
scenarios:
 USE CASE SCENARIO 1) Centimetre-level precision, high visibility
conditions, stationary, physical size power consumption not stringent
demands (e.g., oil drilling);
 USE CASE SCENARIO 2) Decimetre-level precision, low visibility
conditions, dynamic, physical size and power consumptions should be kept
to the minimum. (e.g., GIS, mapping under tree canopy);
 USE CASE SCENARIO 3) Centimetre-level precision, medium visibility
conditions, dynamic, physical size and power consumption not stringent
demands (e.g., automated steering);
 USE CASE SCENARIO 4) Centimetre-level precision, low visibility
conditions, dynamic, physical size and power consumption should be kept
to the minimum (e.g., typical cases of RTK usage such as surveying).
 USE CASE SCENARIO 5), 6)… proposed by the applicants

6. Develop products for 3 use case
scenarios
• Pre-analyse all the use case scenarios, for each one list:
– critical user requirements
– environmental constraints
– applications for each use case scenario
– R&D activities implied by the development of receivers & antennas
• The applicants are requested to select 3 use case scenarios
• Once the project is awarded, the beneficiaries will develop the 3
receivers and corresponding antennas for the selected use case
scenarios

7. Development of professional receivers
and antennas
• The applicants shall justify the choice of the 3 use
case scenarios, considering how the envisaged
final products respond to at least:
– Optimal use of Galileo differentiators (and EGNOS,
whenever possible);
– Level of innovation;
– Complementarity with other technologies;
– Identified demands of the high-precision market;
– Competitiveness of the envisaged final products.

8. Features of the developed receivers (1/3)
• Design and develop/upgrade 3 close to market
receivers
• All-constellation, all-frequency
• Optimised for the use case scenario addressed
• Optimal use and processing of Galileo signals (and
EGNOS, whenever possible)
• Self-standing, individually marketable compatible
with other high-end receiver components

9. Features of the developed receivers (2/3)
• Use of differentiators Galileo
– 3 Galileo frequencies E1/E5/E6
– Pilot tones – reduce the integration times; provide
higher sensitivity
– Use of CS:
• High Accuracy: satellite-based PPP
• Authentication
– Other differentiators

10. Features of the developed receivers (3/3)
• New concepts of signal processing
• Smart implementation of multi-constellation multi-frequency signal
combination and processing
• Use carrier phase-based positioning
• Optimised TTFF: proposed combination GPS+Galileo
• Coupling and hybridisation with other sensors, GNSS and non-GNSS
• Others:
– acquisition techniques, multipath mitigation, highly-sensitive algorithms for
low-visibility scenarios, in-band interference cancelation, beam-filtering
techniques, signal selection for selective tracking of satellites with high N/O
ratio, SDR, anti-jamming, etc.
• Features developed can be used for more than
one use case scenarios

11. Features of the developed antennas
• Design or upgrade 3 antennas
• All-constellation, all-frequency
• Compatible with the corresponding receivers
• Features developed can be used for more than one use case scenarios
• To be considered by the applicants:
– Real multi-elements antenna (CRPA) or synthetic array techniques
– Anti-jamming antenna
– etc.
• Self standing antennas

12. PROFESSIONAL HIGH-END MARKET DEVICES
Construction surveying
Cadastral surveying
Mapping & GIS
Oil drilling
Precision agriculture

13. Project Timeline
• The action shall last max. 2 years, starting in
2016/Q4
Stage Deadline
Publication of the call 2nd of March 2016
Deadline for request for clarifications 13th of May 2016
Publication of the clarifications 20th of May 2016
Submittal of applications 2nd of June 2016
Evaluation period June to July 2016
Signature of the Grant Agreement October 2016

14. Budget allocation
• The grant aims at awarding 1 project:
– Up to an amount of 4.3 M€
– Up to a co-funding rate of 60%

15. Eligible participants (1/2)
• Only proposals submitted by consortia shall be
admissible:
• Coordinator  legal person
• Co-applicants  legal and/or natural person(s)
• Legal person(s) must be established in:
• EU Member States
• Switzerland, Norway
• Natural persons have to be nationals of the same
countries.
Established = having a registered office OR central administration OR
principal place of business in one of those countries.

16. Eligible participants (2/2)
• Applicants must be active in the development,
integration and/or manufacturing of GNSS
components, receivers, antennas and/or
expert in the field of GNSS Research and
development (R&D).

17. Deliverables
Work plan
User
Requirements
System
Requirements
document
Preliminary
Architecture/Design
guidelines
2X the 3 receivers
2X the 3 antennas
2X the 3 integrated
receivers-antennas
final products
Detailed
architecture of the
products
Tests plans, cases
and procedures
Test reports
Demonstration
campaign
Report on
demonstration
activities
Demonstration kit
Dissemination plan
and Business plan
Implementation of
the Business plan
and Dissemination
plan (Report)
Dissemination
documents
and multi-media
Demonstration
training material

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