Navigation Systems

Data is displayed for the academic year: 2025./2026.

Lecturers

Asst. Prof.
Josip Vuković
PhD

Course Description

Overview of navigation systems. GPS, GLONASS, Galileo. Fundamentals of satellite positioning. Architecture of global satellite navigation systems (GNSS). GPS positioning services, performances and limitations. GPS signals reception and processing. Architecture of GPS receiver. Positioning errors. Augmentation of GNSS systems, DGPS, EGNOS. Integration of satellite and other navigation systems. Integration of navigation and communication systems. Expected future development and modernisation.

Study Programmes

Postgraduate doctoral study programme

Literature

Elliott Kaplan, Christopher Hegarty (2005.), Understanding GPS, Artech House
B. Hofmann-Wellenhof, K. Legat, M. Wieser (2011.), Navigation, Springer Science & Business Media
Mohinder S. Grewal, Lawrence R. Weill, Angus P. Andrews (2007.), Global Positioning Systems, Inertial Navigation, and Integration, John Wiley & Sons

General

ID 154864
  Summer semester
6 ECTS