INTRODUCTION TO THE CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Alina HriscuGSA Market Development

DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-END PROFESSIONAL RECEIVERS AND

CORRESPONDING ANTENNASGSA/GRANT/01/2016

Agenda

Objectives Professional receivers and antennas Use case scenarios Timeline Budget allocation Eligible participants Deliverables

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

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

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

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.

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 REQUIRED…

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

TO BE CONSIDERED…

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

TO BE CONSIDERED…

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

PROFESSIONAL HIGH-END MARKET DEVICES

Construction surveying

Cadastral surveying

Mapping & GIS

Oil drilling

Precision agriculture

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

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%

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.

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).

Deliverables

Work plan User Requirements

System Requirements

document

Preliminary Architecture/Design guidelines

2X the 3 receivers2X 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)

Disseminationdocuments

and multi-media

Demonstrationtraining material

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