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Modern Navigation & Positioning Technologies - GMAT4910 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description This course presents an overview of the various satellite-based and non-satellite navigation technologies and some of their applications. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role such positioning technologies will play in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Various user receiver configurations, system augmentations and implementation issues will be analysed. These include: differential GPS (DGPS) schemes and services, real-time systems and their communication links, pseudo-range and carrier phase-based techniques, pseudolites, and combined GPS/GLONASS positioning. In addition, the role of other sensors (such as gyros, accelerometers and inertial navigation systems (INS)) and ancillary data (such as digital maps) can play in ITS positioning/navigation will be discussed. Data fusion techniques for integrating GPS (or GLONASS) with INS, such as Kalman Filtering, will be presented. Students will gain hands-on experience with a variety of navigation receiver and sensor technology.
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