COMPASS at the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace

Marco Nugnes at the 5th IEEE International Worskhop on Metrology for Aerospace

The number of satellites to be used for a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is one of the most critical design parameters to be selected. It represents the trade-off between achieving the desired coverage requirements while keeping the budget as low as possible. Moreover, additional spare satellites are used to prevent any possible failure involving one or more satellites.

During the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace, Marco Nugnes presented his work about the development of an engineering tool to optimise the number of operative satellites of a generic GNSS constellation considering the effects of failure modes on the coverage performance.