SUBJECT

Navigation systems

practical

master

Faculty of Informatics

3

Semester 3

Autumn semester

• Introduction, historical review

• Celestral positioning, basic of navigation, chronograph systems

• Earth based radio navigation systems (GEE, LORAN, DECCA, OMEGA etc.)

• Doppler and NNSS – from the beginnings

• LEO systems (Oscar, Transit, Tsikada, Parus etc.)

• MEO, HEO systems, inter planetary navigation systems

• NAVSTAR/GLONASS

• GALILEO/COMPASS

• Augmentation systems (EGNOS, WAAS, MTSAS, GZSS, GAGAN etc.)

• GNSS permanent stations and systems, NTRIP

• High precision positioning and navigation

• Mobile solutions

• Measurements error solutions

• Field measurement

• Hofmann-Wellenhof, Bernhard, Lichtenegger, Herbert, Wasle, Elmar, 2008. GNSS – Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Springer-Verlag Wien, ISBN: 978-3-211-73012-6

• Esmat Bekir: Introduction to Modern Navigation Systems World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007

• Mohinder S. Grewal, Lawrence R. Weill, Angus P. Andrews: Global Positioning Systems, Inertial Navigation, and Integration, Wiley, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-470-09971-1

Suggested literature:

• Laurie Tetley etal: Electronic Navigation Systems, Taylor & Francis, 2012, ISBN: 978-0-7506- 5138-7