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GPS Receivers and how they work - GMAT9201
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course will introduce the electronic and signal processing aspects of L1 Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. The following topics will be dealt with: signal specifications, introduction to CDMA, calculating a position, problems receiver designers must overcome (multipath etc.), front end RF design, correlator principles and approaches, signal acquisition/reacquisition and tracking, how measurements are made, receiver interfaces, augmentation systems (e.g. EGNOS, WAAS) and a discussion of off-the-shelf solutions such as boardsets and chipsets. These principles will be illustrated using Matlab, allowing students to develop algorithm components of receivers.

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