RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CANDIDATE : The main responsibility of the research professional is to ensure that the theoretical developments achieved by the research team match the real-time implementation and lead to the final goal: a new GNSS signal simulator for a hybrid GPS/Galileo constellation. The research professional will work on the most important theoretical and real-time subjects of the project, from the initial design of the satellite constellation, the generation of the receiver trajectories, the development of the different signal sources, to the final real-time implementation and validation tests. One of the tasks of the research professional is to ensure, together with the professor in charge of the research project that the research topics proposed during the 4 years progress well. He will also support the other team members in the course of their own research activities, guide and supervise their research work. He should always have a general view of the global project and mainly on the progress in the real-time implementation to secure and to integrate the feedback of our industrial partner. He will know about the work of the interns, Master and PhD students in the practical field. The research professional will be directly involved in real-time implementation of the various developed algorithms and will be very active in hardware development (by himself or by the research team members: PhD and Master’s students). He will also be active on the RF developments as well as on the IF ones. – During the first year, the research professional will start his research work with a thorough overview of the GNSS simulator requirements and goals and with a detailed literature review, a theoretical background about the GNSS signal simulator development and implementation. He will be actively involved in the design and validation of the hybrid GNSS satellite constellation, including the GNSS navigation message generation. An important part of his work will deal with the development of GPS/Galileo signals, their validation and analysis in real-time. He will also be actively involved in the generation of the receiver trajectory, its analysis and validation. During this period, he will work very closely with the PhD student on these research topics. – During the second year, the research professional will focus on the RF design. He will work very closely with the postdoctoral researcher and PhD student and will be involved in the improvement of the performances obtained. – In the third year, the research professional will work mainly on the development in real-time of the perturbation model for the GNSS signal simulator. This will include the satellite constellation perturbations, the signal propagation perturbations (atmospheric perturbations) and the antenna modeling. He will focus on the improvements that may be taken into account in order to obtain a perturbation model as realistic as possible. He will start with a thorough overview of the existing models and will validate and test their implementation in simulation. He will work with the postdoctoral researcher, the PhD student and the Master students at the real-time implementation of the perturbation model. – During the last year, the research professional will focus on the SBAS and interference development in real-time simulation. He will implement and validate the SBAS navigation message generation and the SBAS signal generation. He will work with the postdoctoral researcher, the PhD student and the Master students on the real-time implementation. The research professional will supervise, together with the professor in charge of the project, the research work performed by the PhD student over a period of 4 years. He will also supervise and guide the research of the Master’s students. He will be also in charge, together with the PhD student and the post-doc, of the publications resulting from the real-time aspects related to the research project.
