Design and optimization of navigation and guidance techniques for Mars pinpoint landing: Review and prospect

Z Yu, P Cui, JL Crassidis - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Future Mars landing missions will require the capability of precise landing at certain sites for
specific scientific interests to gather more valuable scientific information. Autonomous …

Are PLLs dead? A tutorial on Kalman filter-based techniques for digital carrier synchronization

J Vila-Valls, P Closas, M Navarro… - IEEE Aerospace and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Carrier synchronization is a fundamental stage in the receiver side of any communication or
positioning system. Traditional carrier phase tracking techniques are based on well-known …

Multi-constellation software-defined receiver for Doppler positioning with LEO satellites

F Farhangian, R Landry Jr - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
A Multi-Constellation Software-Defined Receiver (MC-SDR) is designed and implemented to
extract the Doppler measurements of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite's downlink signals …

Receiver design for Doppler positioning with LEO satellites

JJ Khalife, ZM Kassas - ICASSP 2019-2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A framework for positioning with low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite signals is proposed. The
framework employs an extend Kalman filter (EKF) to estimate a receiver's position using …

Automatic modulation classification for cognitive radios using cyclic feature detection

B Ramkumar - IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive radios have become a key research area in communications over the past few
years. Automatic modulation classification (AMC) is an important component that improves …

Maximum-likelihood classification of digital amplitude-phase modulated signals in flat fading non-Gaussian channels

VG Chavali, CRCM Da Silva - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose an algorithm for the classification of digital amplitude-phase
modulated signals in flat fading channels with non-Gaussian noise. The additive noise is …

Navigation from low-earth orbit

ZZM Kassas - Position, navigation, and timing technologies in …, 2020 - books.google.com
The promise of broadband low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite signals for positioning, navigation,
and timing (PNT) has been demonstrated in the past decade [1–7]. While some LEO-based …

Reliability options for data communications in the future deep-space missions

T De Cola, E Paolini, G Liva… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Availability of higher capacity for both uplinks and downlinks is expected in the future deep-
space missions on Mars, thus enabling a large range of services that could eventually …

Hybrid maximum likelihood modulation classification using multiple radios

O Ozdemir, R Li, PK Varshney - IEEE Communications Letters, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we focus on amplitude-phase modulations and propose a modulation
classification framework based on centralized data fusion using multiple radios and the …

Communications for the planet mars: Past, present, and future

E Koktas, E Basar - IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space exploration has been on the rise since the 1960s and Mars plays a significant role in
the history of space exploration. As the amount of data collected from science instruments …