Papers & articles

Selected GNSS research and engineering publications.

Articles from Inside GNSS, GPS World, SICE and the Tokyo GNSS Symposium, with locally archived PDFs and verified publisher links where available.

Inside GNSS issue containing GNSS Simulation: A User's Guide to the Galaxy

GNSS simulation seriesInside GNSS · 2010

Simulation, receivers, positioning and GNSS applications.

The PDFs preserve the published articles independently of publisher website changes. External links are included only where a current, verified source exists.

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Inside GNSS · July/August 2010

Testing Multi-GNSS Equipment: Systems, Simulators, and the Production Pyramid

Ivan Petrovski, Bryan Townsend and Takuji Ebinuma

Multi-GNSS test procedures across receiver research, design, validation, manufacturing, certification and maintenance.

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Inside GNSS · September 2010 · pp. 48–58

GNSS Simulators: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

Ivan Petrovski and Takuji Ebinuma

Design and operation of generic GNSS RF simulators, including principal architectures, capabilities, advantages and limitations.

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SICE JCMSI · Vol. 4, No. 1 · January 2011 · pp. 15–21

Development of INS-Aided GPS Tracking Loop and Flight Test Evaluation

Toshiaki Tsujii, Takeshi Fujiwara, Yoshimitsu Suganuma, Hiroshi Tomita and Ivan Petrovski

An INS-aided tracking-loop design for maintaining robust GNSS tracking under severe signal dynamics and ionospheric scintillation.

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GPS World · Vol. 19, No. 11 · November 2008 · pp. 42–48

First AGPS—Now BGPS: Instantaneous Precise Positioning Anywhere

Ivan Petrovski, Harumasa Hojo and Toshiaki Tsujii

BGPS technology for producing an immediate position solution while retaining a path to precise positioning.

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GPS World · March 2008

Expert Advice: GLONASS Business Prospects

Vasiliy Engelsberg, Ivan Petrovski and Valery Babakov

An assessment of GLONASS restoration, receiver development and the commercial prospects of combined GLONASS/GPS equipment.

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GPS World · October 2006

Expert Advice: Everywhere, Without Waiting

Ivan Petrovski

The engineering challenge of providing seamless, immediate positioning at any location without making the user a satellite-navigation specialist.

First page of Ultra-light bird tracking system based on BGPS

GNSS Symposium, Tokyo · 2011

Ultra-light Bird Tracking System Based on BGPS

Ivan Petrovski, Charles Bishop and R. J. Spivey

A BGPS-based tracking concept designed around the mass and energy constraints of small migratory birds.

First page of the 2003 QZSS article

GPS World · June 2003 · pp. 24–29

QZSS—Japan’s New Integrated Communication and Positioning Service for Mobile Users

Ivan Petrovski et al.

An early technical account of the proposed Japanese regional satellite system and its integrated positioning and communication services.

First page of Pedestrian ITS in Japan

GPS World · March 2003 · pp. 33–37

Pedestrian ITS in Japan

Ivan Petrovski, Kazuki Okano, Makoto Ishii, Hideyuki Torimoto, Yusuke Konishi and Ryosuke Shibasaki

Pedestrian positioning using GPS, pseudolites and supporting infrastructure within Japan’s early ITS research.

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