• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.389-396
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• 2007

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) becomes more important and is applied to various systems. Recently, the Galileo navigation system is being developed in Europe. Also, other countries like China, Japan and India are developing the global/regional navigation satellite system. As various global/regional navigation satellite systems are used, the navigation ground system gets more important for using the navigation system reasonably and efficiently. According to this trend, the technology of GNSS Ground Station (GGS) is developing in many fields. The one of purposes for this study is to develop the high precision receiver for GNSS sensor station and to provide ground infrastructure for better performance services on navigation system. In this study, we consider the configuration of GNSS Ground Station and analyze function of Monitoring and Control subsystem which is a part of GNSS Ground Station. We propose Monitoring and Control subsystem which contains the navigation software for GNSS Ground System to monitor and control equipments in GNSS Ground Station, to spread the applied field of navigation system, and to provide improved navigation information to user.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2022

In this paper, a low-cost, flexible GPS simulator based on USRP is designed as a general-purpose software wireless front-end. The simulator consists of a software GPS signal generator and a USRP-based RF transmitter. The simulator supports various scenarios including specified reception time, quantization bit level, I/Q data types, IF frequency, sampling frequency, SNR, ionospheric delay and user dynamics. The generated GPS RF signal is verified using the spectrum analyzer and off-the-shelf GNSS receivers such as U-blox M8T. The experimental results shows that the difference between generated and real live signal is ignorable. It is expected that designed GPS simulator can be used to GNSS signal design, receiver design and signal processing algorithms such as anti-jamming.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2012

A software GNSS signal generator for the GPS L1/L2/L5 and Galileo E1/E5 signals is proposed in this paper. And this signal generator is designed and implemented with several components by considering the reuse and expansion of components for similar GNSS signals. The characteristics of the reusability of the components are confirmed with the carrier generation and the band-pass filter components. And the functionality of the GNSS multi-band IF signal generator is validated by using the commercial software GPS L1 receiver, and the performance of signal acquisition, tracking and accuracy of horizontal position error are analyzed for this validation. As a result, the GPS L1 signal generator operates successfully and it could be expected that other signal generators also operate well because most of components are the same as those of the GPS L1 signal generator.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권6C호
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• pp.502-511
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• 2012

GNSS의 중요성이 점점 증가하면서, 독자적인 위성항법시스템의 구축에 대한 필요성이 제기되고 있다. 위성항법 시스템 구축 시 위성 신호 설계는 반드시 필요한 과정이며, 이를 위한 요구조건 규정이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 위성 항법 설계 요소에 대한 수신 성능 분석을 수행하며, 이를 이용한 신호 설계 방안에 대해 제시한다. 먼저 설계 요소에 따른 후보군 정의 후, 성능 평가 지표에 따라 신호 후보의 수신 성능을 분석한다. 이때 다양한 적용 분야에서의 신호 성능을 판단하기 위하여 성능 평가 지표가 갖는 가중치를 정의하였으며, 정규화된 성능 평가 지표와 가중치간의 연산을 통해 최종적으로 성능 비교값을 도출하였다. 위성 항법 신호 설계 요소로 코드, 변조 기법, 반송파를 고려하였으며, 성능을 평가하기 위한 평가 지표로는 상관폭, DLL 및 PLL 열잡음 지터, 주파수 대역폭, 사이드로브 피크율을 정의하였다. 또한 적용 분야로는 측위 성능, 잡음에 대한 강인성, 대역 효율성을 고려하였다. 제안한 설계 방안 적용 시 소프트웨어 기반의 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 성능 분석을 수행하였으며, 최종적으로 성능 분석 결과로부터 신호 후보의 성능을 객관적으로 판단하고 비교하였다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.2
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• pp.347-352
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• 2006

Narrowband interference can severely degrade the performance of GPS receivers. Detecting the presence of interference and then characterizing it can lead to its removal. Receivers can be reconfigured to focus on other signals or satellites that are less vulnerable to that interference at that moment. Using hardware reconfigurability of FPGA receivers and characterizing the effect of narrowband interference on the GNSS signal quality lead us to a new RFI mitigation technique in which the highest quality and less vulnerable signal can be chosen at each moment. In the previous work [1], the post processing capability of a software GPS receiver, has been used to detect and characterize the CW interference. This is achieved by passing the GPS signal and the interference through the correlator. Then, using the conventional definition of C/No as the squared mean of the correlator output divided by its variance, the actual C/No for each satellite is calculated. In this work, first the 'Exclusion zone' for each satellite signal has been defined and then by using some experiments the effects of different parameters like signal power, jamming power and the environmental noise power on the Exclusion zone have been analyzed. By monitoring the Doppler frequency of each satellite and using the actual C/No of each satellite using the traditional definition of C/No and actual data from a software GPS receiver, the decision to reconfigure the receiver to other signal can be made.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2008

Modularized GPS software defined radio (SDR) has many advantages of applying and modifying algorithm. Hardware based GPS receiver uses many hardware parts (such as RF front, correlators, CPU and other peripherals) that process tracked signal and navigation data to calculate user position, while SDR uses software modules, which run on general purpose CPU platform or embedded DSP. SDR does not have to change hardware part and is not limited by hardware capability when new processing algorithm is applied. The weakness of SDR is that software correlation takes lots of processing time. However, in these days the evolution of processing power of MPU and DSP leads the competitiveness of SDR against the hardware GPS receiver. This paper shows a study of modulization of GPS software platform and it presents development of the GNSS software platform using MATLAB Simulink™. We focus on post processing SDR platform which is usually adapted in research area. The main functions of SDR are GPS signal acquisition, signal tracking, decoding navigation data and calculating stand alone user position from stored data that was down converted and sampled intermediate frequency (IF) data. Each module of SDR platform is categorized by function for applicability for applying for other frequency and GPS signal easily. The developed software platform is tested using stored data which is down-converted and sampled IF data file. The test results present that the software platform calculates user position properly.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.29-35
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 GPS L1 신호에 대한 기만의 종류 및 이를 검출하기 위한 방법에 대한 연구를 수행하고 GPS L1 신호에 대한 기만신호 검출 및 판단 알고리즘을 구현한 후 시뮬레이션을 통하여 성능을 분석하였다. 수신기의 동작 여부에 따라 기만과 재밍신호가 차이가 있으며 기만신호는 재밍신호와 달리 GPS 신호와 유사한 신호로 수신기를 공격하므로 기만 대상 수신기에서는 정상동작하는 것처럼 판단하게 되며 따라서 수신기에서 기만공격을 판단하기란 매우 어렵다. 기만신호 검출 및 판단 알고리즘의 성능을 검증하기 위하여 소프트웨어 기반의 기만신호/정상 GPS 신호생성기와 소프트웨어 기반의 수신기를 구현하였다. 본 논문에서 기만신호의 코드지연 및 도플러 주파수 변이에 따른 수신기의 DLL/PLL의 출력 오차를 확인하였다. 또한 수신기의 출력값인 의사거리, 신호세기, 항법해를 이용하여 기만신호 검출 및 판단 알고리즘을 구현하였으며 기만신호를 효율적으로 검출 및 판단할 수 있었다.

• 한국방재안전학회논문집
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2014

급경사지 계측에 활용을 위하여 GNSS와 TRS센서를 주축으로 하여 전원, 통신 등의 부대설비, 그리고 변위 추출 및 가시화 등의 데이터처리 소프트웨어를 개발하여 스마트폴 계측시스템을 구축하였다. 본 연구에서 개발한 스마트폴 계측센서의 개념은 GNSS안테나 바로 밑에 TRS센서 및 자이로(gyro) 센서 등, 그리고 하단에 함수비센서를 장착하여 실시간으로 지표변위는 물론, 지반의 병진, 활동, 침하 등의 세가지 요인을 추출해 내고 함수비를 추출하여 전송할 수 있도록 하였다. 스마트폴 계측시스템은 데이터 수신부, 데이터 수집 및 전송부, 데이터 처리부로 구분하여 각 부분별 기능을 발휘할 수 있도록 구축한 다음, 현장적용성 평가를 위해 인위적 변위를 도입한 시험계측을 실시하고 그 결과를 분석하였다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.1
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• pp.171-174
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• 2006

A large number of service providers in countries all over the world have established GNSS reference station networks in the last years and are using network software today to provide a correction stream to the user as a routine service. In current GNSS network processing, all the geometric related information such as ionospheric free carrier phase ambiguities from all stations and satellites, tropospheric effects, orbit errors, receiver and satellite clock errors are estimated in one centralized Kalman filter. Although this approach provides an optimal solution to the estimation problem, however, the processing time increases cubically with the number of reference stations in the network. Until now one single Personal Computer with Pentium 3.06 GHz CPU can only process data from a network consisting of no more than 50 stations in real time. In order to process data for larger networks in real time and to lower the computational load, a federated filter approach can be considered. The main benefit of this approach is that each local filter runs with reduced number of states and the computation time for the whole system increases only linearly with the number of local sensors, thus significantly reduces the computational load compared to the centralized filter approach. This paper presents the technical aspect and performance analysis of the federated filter approach. Test results show that for a network of 100 reference stations, with the centralized approach, the network processing including ionospheric modeling and network ambiguity fixing needs approximately 60 hours to process 24 hours network data in a 3.06 GHz computer, which means it is impossible to run this network in real time. With the federated filter approach, only less than 1 hour is needed, 66 times faster than the centralized filter approach. The availability and reliability of network processing remain at the same high level.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.1
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• pp.165-170
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• 2006

In the Civil Aviation field, the international trend (through ICAO, EUROCONTROL) is to adopt one positioning system that allows to follow more flight phases. This will allow to release themselves by ground installations and optimize the traffic flows following the aRea Navigation (RNAV) concept. In order to realize this goal the European Scientific Community are focusing on Augmentation Systems based on Satellite infrastructure (SBAS - Satellite Based Augmentation System) and on Ground based ones (GBAS - Ground Based Augmentation System). The goal of this work is to present some results on SBAS and GBAS performances. Regarding SBAS, the Department of Applied Sciences of Parthenope University, after the acquisition of a Novatel OEM4 SBAS receiver has created a monitoring station that reflect as much as possible a standardized measure environment for EGNOS Data Collection Network (EDCN), established by Eurocontrol. The Department of Applied Science has decided to carry out a own monitoring survey to verify the performance of EGNOS that can be achieved in South Europe region, a zone not very covered by official (EDCN) monitoring network. Regarding GBAS, we started from a data set of measurements carried out at the GBAS of Milan-Linate airport where we work on a ground installation (GMS - Ground Monitoring Station) that supervises the GBAS signal and that represent, for our purposes, the Aircraft subsystem. So the set of data collected is to be considered in RTK mode and after the measures session we processed them with the software PEGASUS v 4.11. Both experiences give us the possibility to evaluate the GNSS1 performance that can be achieved.