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STANDARD CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Under NAVISP Element 2, the permanent Standard Call for Proposals focuses on developing innovative competitive products in the Position, Navigation and Timing domain, in particular, Satellite Navigation.
The objective is to boost Participant States industrial competitiveness in the fast- evolving Position, Navigation, and Timing sector.
NAVISP Element 2 welcomes proposals from space and…
Support for Institutional Projects
Element 3 supports Participating States in advancing national Positioning, Navigation and Timing initiatives across the full value chain. It provides ad-hoc assistance per country or domain to develop and promote GNSS and broader PNT-based products, applications, and services.
Next to funding, ESA may offer technical support in programme management, infrastructure development, and testing…
112 - Development of a GNSS Receiver Size Weight & Power Model
In recent years, the design of GNSS receivers has become increasingly complex due to ongoing developments in signal structures and the growing variety of carrier frequencies, bandwidths, waveforms, chipping, and data rates. Based on these parameters and on the advancements in the different application domains, no effective, comprehensive tool currently exists to evaluate the best trade-off in…
110 - User Equipment Platform for Positioning with 5G/6G Non-Terrestrial Networks
The future 5G and 6G non-terrestrial networks (NTN) will offer continuous and ubiquitous coverage, serving predominantly terrestrial users in remote and underserved areas. The latest 3GPP releases imply that the user equipment (UE) must be equipped with the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver determining its position, velocity, and time (PVT) to be able to connect to NTN. To…
109 - 5G Localisation for Safety of Life Applications in Rail
Safe Localisation of railway vehicles is necessary to allow train control systems to operate. Today this is done within the European Train Control System (ETCS) by using fixed location tags called Eurobalises and odometry sensors.
While Eurobalises typically are safe, fairly accurate and robust, they impose high costs for installation and maintenance on the infrastructure operator and only…
107 - Ultra high spatial resolution GNSS receiver for automotive industry
The ability of exploiting the spatial dimensions has allowed array antennas to be exploited in various applications. Over the past years, array antennas have been deployed in GNSS receivers either to provide a spatial filter or to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) using beamforming techniques.
To achieve a high spatial resolution, a large array antenna aperture should be used. The…
105 - Hybrid black-white-modelling estimation and machine learning algorithms for PNT engines
The application of machine learning (based on “black-box” modelling) is of interest in problems that are difficult to solve based on traditional (optimal) estimators for simple models (“white-box” modelling). Black-box modelling is difficult to be explained and understood (i.e., difficult to understand what to expect in unknown or new situations), involve high computation complexity, and…
103 - Precise and Stable Navigation with Quantum Accelerometer
Navigation systems that rely on Inertial Sensors are prone to drift and inaccuracies over time, affecting their accuracy, reliability, and autonomy, particularly in challenging scenarios where GNSS signals and/or external reference points availability is limited or strongly impacted.
Quantum accelerometers enable high-precision navigation with long autonomy, effective fault detection in case of…
101 - Underwater and underground navigation using Muons
When cosmic rays reach the upper part of the Earth’s atmosphere, several particles are created, including muons. Muons, elementary particles with the same charge of the electron but with bigger mass, can travel through any kind of material, including water and rock. A muon detector can be very small and very low cost (~ $100). Muons can be used for navigation using Reference Detectors (to…
099 - Location, Tracking and Salvage support of lost shipping containers at sea
Each year 226 Million container boxes are shipped. About 1600 boxes/year (0,002%) are lost at sea. The boxes are afloat for days to weeks before they are sinking & grounding. The reasons can be traced to top-heavy container stacks (unstable), increasing bad weather (storms) by climate change and time pressure on ship crews (higher on the supply-chains after COVID). The number of boxes lost at sea…