Petrus
Details
Promotor: | Alain Muls |
Funding: | European GNSS Agency (GSA) |
Involved staff: | Alain MULS, |
Start date: | 10 Jan 2018 |
Duration: | 24 months |
Research unit: | Geodesy and GNSS |
Description
PRS European Tests for Robustness of User Segment
Project overview
The overall objectives of the activities have been defined by the consortium to answer the needs expressed by the GSA in the call for grant:
- To monitor and evaluate the Galileo PRS quality of service (navigation performance, security performance, robustness) during the two-year period, along with the progressive deployment of the Galileo system, assessing access control and all related operational PRS procedures, analyzed with respect to the available functionalities and robustness, throughout laboratory and on the fields tests in user oriented scenarios
- To contribute to the consolidation of the CMS implementation
- To compare PRS applications to other Galileo services applications
- To share with the program and among all CPAs the results and the return of experience gathered through the consortium’s activities
- To benchmark PRS against other navigation/timing systems and propose a preliminary navigation policy; and
- To initiate actions to promote the use of PRS services towards the PRS community and decisions makers
Activities
The activities of the grant will contribute:
- To provide the program with valuable test data and reports during the Initial Services provision, that will support End to End PRS validation and assessment of the service performances
- To increase Member States expertise in the PRS functionalities and quality of service
- To analyse in situ data collected in representative (or even operational) environments and use cases;
- To prepare the operational phase with improved procedures and perform tests with various available PRS receivers. This will provide a comprehensive set of data that will allow reaching a deeper understanding of these receivers
- To provide feedback and lessons learnt to the program on the various aspects of PRS implementation (CMS, security, navigation performances, access control)
- To propose a preliminary contribution to a joint navigation policy for the users; and
- Finally based on the outcomes of this work, to prepare communications towards the PRS users and decision makers to give confidence on the quality of the PRS service from a user perspective.
Work-Package Breakdown (only BE involvement)
- WP-2.2: PRS Robustness against spoofing/jamming
- WP-2.3: PRS and OS Navigation Monitoring
- WP-3.1: Perform Belgian field trials
- WP-5.1: PRS applications compared to other GNSS services applications
- WP-6: lessons learnt
- WP-7.1: benchmark PRS against other navigation/timing solutions
- WP-8: Raising user awareness