{"title":"Airborne pseudolites in a Global Positioning System degraded environment","authors":"H. Oktay, M. Stepaniak","doi":"10.1109/rast.2011.5966840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rast.2011.5966840","url":null,"abstract":"The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a continuous, all-weather navigation service that supports precise navigation for authorized military users. As with all satellite navigation systems, GPS is requires the user to maintain direct line-of-sight access to four or more satellites, and therefore performance is degraded or denied when the sky view is obstructed. To minimize this problem, various types of augmentations have been developed and tested. Pseudo-satellites, also called pseudolites, are one such augmentation system in which GPS-like ranging signals from additional transmitters supplement the satellite signals. This paper examines the ability of airborne pseudolites to support precise positioning in an urban environment. The impact of restricted satellite availability due to obstructions is examined for various urban terrain zones. Then the ability of the pseudolite to improve both availability and accuracy is investigated. A comparison of the system performance when relying on GPS only and when using an airborne pseudolite is presented for various positioning scenarios. Simulation results show that required accuracy and availability can be obtained by using an appropriately equipped airborne pseudolite.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117035942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SAR image segmentation using Contourlet Transform combined with Haralick Features","authors":"Bedrettin Erbil Konuk, I. Erer","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966861","url":null,"abstract":"The Contourlet Transform is a new technique to achieve a scale-invariant and directional signal analysis. This work demonstrates and discusses further segmentation improvements on the Synthetic Aperture Radar images by inclusion of the Haralick Features into the Contourlet Transform ones.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"65 Suppl 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128314757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From surface to orbit","authors":"A. Oláh","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966922","url":null,"abstract":"Space travel is highly expensive and has significant limitations. Among all space activities the process of travelling from the surface to orbit requires the greatest amount of energy, materials and cost. Basically even today, more than 61 years after the first artificial satellite was set to orbit, these difficulties have been the greatest barriers of the dawn of the real space age.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115663399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Tansel, Gurjiwan Singh, G. Singh, S. Korla, B. Grisso, L. Salvino, Balemir Uragun
{"title":"Monitoring the integrity of machine assemblies by using surface response to excitation (SuRE) approach","authors":"I. Tansel, Gurjiwan Singh, G. Singh, S. Korla, B. Grisso, L. Salvino, Balemir Uragun","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966917","url":null,"abstract":"Fully automated integrity inspections of assembled autonomous space vehicles components are essential for their reliable and cost effective operation. Many researchers have already used structural health monitoring (SHM) methods for detecting loose bolts, plate defects, and many other structural problems. This study had two objectives. First, the performance of the surface response to excitation (SuRE) approach was tested for the detection of the compressive forces of a clamp applied to a small plate. The test indicated that the suRE approach could be used for detection of loose bolts attached to an aluminum plate. Secondly, the same approach was tested when the clamp was attached to a plate which was welded to the plate carrying the actuator and the sensor. The study demonstrated that the swept sine waves transmit through the welded joints. The integrity of the components could be evaluated by using the sensor and actuator located at another plate, as long as the plates are welded properly. The Lamb wave approach was also tested in both test conditions. SuRE approach was easier to interpret compare to the envelopes of the Lamb wave approach for our relatively small plates.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123042296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward software-based safety systems in space","authors":"M. Klicker, H. Putzer","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966890","url":null,"abstract":"Space exploration missions became increasingly complex in past decade with new emerging capabilities such as sample returns from various celestial bodies and rovers. As many engineering constraints apply to deep space missions in terms of mass, size and energy, an increasing amount of system functionalities for housekeeping or science purposes is implemented in software. The development in other industrial domains requiring high-integrity software suggests that safety-related functions (both for protecting humans from hazards as well as for protecting the mission) will increasingly be implemented in software. This requires the software systems to become safer and more reliable than today.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116641967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Report of CanSat Leader Training Program","authors":"Shusaku Yamaura, H. Akiyama, R. Kawashima","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966964","url":null,"abstract":"CanSat Leader Training Program (CLTP) has been held in Japan from 14th February to 14th March 2011. This program is designed for researchers and educators in space engineering to learn the basic concept of space education, and also to experience practical hands-on training, system engineering, project management and teamwork. Participants are 12 and from 10 countries this year: Turkey, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Sri Lanka, Australia, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt and Vietnam. A microcontroller module called mbed was used for the main computer, as it has online development environment as well as quite a few libraries for users to get used to it rapidly. In the first week, starting with lecture of mbed, three teams built very simple CanSats. The CanSats were launched by model rocket (2m long and goes up to the altitude of 350m) in Kada, Wakayama. Advanced level “come-back” CanSats were built in the rest of the weeks. Unfortunately, those CanSats were not launched due to the earthquake in Japan on 11th March 2011. However, CLTP ended successfully as they all experienced the primary purposes of this program. Instruction material of space education focused on CanSat is now in progress, and it is going to be tailored and translated into the version of respective countries. The basic concept of space education, the background of CLTP, and the detailed contents of program are explained in this paper.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117132153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling of the phase noise influence in the general M-PSK system","authors":"O. Baran, M. Kasal, P. Vagner, T. Urbanec","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966863","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the investigation of a simultaneous incidence of an additive thermal noise and a multiplicative phase noise in narrowband low rate satellite communication systems where a multi-state phase shift keying is utilized. For the evaluation of the behavior of both noise types, a new approach is established. It derives mathematical relations of noise powers in chosen significant points of the communication system. The system model is also programmed in Matlab environment. Simulation results serve for comparisons with calculations, while a good agreement is achieved. Both noise types effects on error rates are also examined.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127133248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precise orbit determination for GPS and GLONASS satellites on the basis of IGS data","authors":"O. Bogdanov, A. Cepe","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966976","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the problem of precise orbit determination for GPS and GLONASS navigation satellites. Satellites' position aiding information provided by the International GNSS Service (IGS) and becomes available on specialized web sites is used. The paper contains the description of algorithms that estimate the position and the relative velocity of navigation satellites and also uncontrollable external disturbances acting on them at high level of accuracy. Comparative analysis of results is adduced.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"268 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125817859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wireless sensor networks for space and Solar-system missions","authors":"A. Akbulut, Fatma Patlar, A. Zaim, G. Yilmaz","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966912","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are multi-hop self-organizing networks which include a huge number of nodes integrating environmental measuring, data processing and wireless communications in order to apprehend, collect and process information to achieve defined tasks. A diverse set of applications for WSNs encompassing different fields have already emerged including environmental applications, inventory monitoring, military applications, intrusion detection, health applications, motion tracking, machine malfunction detection and etc. Among these application areas the use of WSNs can adapted to Space and Solar-system missions. In the last years, space-based WSNs have gained increasing attention from both the research communities and companies involved in space research. This paper outlines the usage of a space-based wireless sensor networks (SB-WSNs), which applies the concept of terrestrial wireless sensor networks to the space.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123552772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combined engineering and mission simulator for a satellite SAR system","authors":"H. Urhan, Ozgur Sutcuoglu","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2011.5966855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2011.5966855","url":null,"abstract":"A simulator for a Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system can be categorized according to its functional use: Engineering Simulator or Mission Simulator. An Engineering Simulator provides a high fidelity infrastructure for the SAR system design team to determine or tweak the parameters for the system to realize the requirements. On the other hand, a Mission Simulator mimics the behavior of the whole system for mission planning or training purposes.","PeriodicalId":285002,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122657295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}