ADVANSYS
Design of Advanced Antenna and Multi-Sensor Hybrid Receiver for Machine Control in Harsh Environment
| Coordinatore | SEPTENTRIO NV
Organization address
address: INTERLEUVENLAAN 15G contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Belgium [BE] |
| Totale costo | 1˙537˙954 € |
| EC contributo | 996˙039 € |
| Programma | FP7-TRANSPORT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics) |
| Code Call | FP7-GALILEO-2011-ENTR-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-12-01 - 2014-02-28 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
SEPTENTRIO NV
Organization address
address: INTERLEUVENLAAN 15G contact info |
BE (LEUVEN) | coordinator | 425˙220.80 |
| 2 |
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV
Organization address
address: Linder Hoehe contact info |
DE (KOELN) | participant | 361˙185.00 |
| 3 |
SATIMO INDUSTRIES SAS
Organization address
address: AVENUE DE NORVEGE 17 contact info |
FR (VILLEBON SUR YVETTE) | participant | 115˙092.00 |
| 4 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Organization address
address: University Park contact info |
UK (NOTTINGHAM) | participant | 94˙542.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Machine Control is the largest segment of the global high precision (better than 1m RMS) GNSS market. Machine Control applications range from Precision Agriculture to Land and Offshore Construction, relying on GNSS due to its global availability and easiness to deploy and operate. Current GNSS-only technology, although successful suffers fundamental limitations that make it fit only for application in rather benign, open-sky environment. Overcoming these limitations is mandatory to extend the addressable market to application in harsher environment such as forestry, open-mining. ADVANSYS will address this challenge leveraging multi-antenna beamforming technology and multi-sensor fusion in the development of the prototype of an affordable and manufacturable high-sensitivity high-resilience Hybrid receiver concept comprising antenna, GNSS receiver and dead-reckoning sensors.'
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are systems of orbiting satellites and ground stations designed to pinpoint the geographic location of a receiver anywhere in the world. GNSS receivers are the user's interface to any GNSS and are critical to machine control. In fact, machine control is the largest segment of the global high-precision (on the order of less than a metre) GNSS market.
Although machine control applications include harsh environments associated with forestry, surface mining and off-shore construction, current receiver systems are designed with clear blue skies in mind. The EU-funded project 'Design of advanced antenna and multi-sensor hybrid receiver for machine control in harsh environment' (ADVANSYS) addressed this key limitation for a European lead position in an increasingly competitive sector.
Scientists developed an affordable, highly sensitive and resilient hybrid receiver concept. It exploits multi-antennae beam-forming technology (to reduce interference and transmit/receive a beam in the desired direction), a GNSS receiver and cost-effective inertial navigation system sensors. The latter are employed widely on ships, aircraft and spacecraft to enable the calculation of position, attitude and velocity without external reference using dead reckoning. Researchers imparted redundancy and hybridisation with vision-aided inertial navigation (VINS). VINS complements inertial measurements with visual features and landmarks for more accurate positioning estimates.
The novel technology will ensure a leading market position for the EU in machine control particularly in non-benign environments. This growing and profitable market sector will be an important addition to the EU portfolio.