GALILEO AND THE 7th FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

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• GALILEO AND THE 7th FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
• MATTHEW WHITE
• Chief Scientific Advisers Unit
• matthew.white_at_dft.gsi.gov.uk
• 0207 944 5038

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• TRANSPORT (INCLUDING AERONAUTICS)
• Budget 4180 million over 7 years
• Surface Transport
• all modes
• Transport policy
• Technology/manufacturing
• Aeronautics Airframes / ATM
• Galileo

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• GALILEO/EGNOS RESEARCH THEMES
• Exploiting The Full Potential
• Providing The Tools and Creating the Appropriate
  Environment
• Adapting Receivers to Requirements and Upgrading
  Core Technologies
• Supporting Infrastructure Evolution

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• OBJECTIVES
• Foster and promote Galileo and EGNOS
• positioning services and related user terminal
  technology
• Understanding of the Global GNSS market potential
  
• Coherent reference frame of radio-navigation
  needs
• To expand SME involvement in GNSS innovation
• To enhance user awareness

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• 1. EXPLOITING THE FULL POTENTIAL 2007
• Open service and mass market applications
• User requirements
• Free of charge open access services
• Multi-source positioning services
• Safety of life services and applications
• Identification of SoL applications outside the
  aviation user community
• Specification of SoL receivers that use
  authentication
• Demonstrating integrity and authentication
  concepts of applications

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• 1. EXPLOITING THE FULL POTENTIAL 2007
• PRS service and Government Applications
• Definition of specifications, standards and
  interfaces
• Demonstrators of PRS applications for selected
  government domains
• GNSS market potential
• Understanding of the Global GNSS market
  technology potential
• Forms of communications to boost market
  penetration and awareness

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• 2. PROVIDING THE TOOLS AND CREATING THE
  APPROPRIATE ENVIRONMENT 2007
• Enablers for EGNOS Certification
• Improvement of System Continuity Risk Performance
• Provision of Integrity throughout the EGNOS
  Broadcast Area
• Software Adaptation
• Consolidation of EGNOS Security Baseline
• Standardisation
• All domains
• Standardisation and Interoperability of testbeds
• Signal and Frequency Coordination Activities
• Use and exploitation of C-bans
• System signal interference analyses and
  compatibility assessment

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• 2. PROVIDING THE TOOLS AND CREATING THE
  APPROPRIATE ENVIRONMENT 2007
• Regulatory and Legal Issues of Service Provision
• Use of GNSS information as reference within
  "liability critical" domains
• Regulatory measures to promote the use of GNSS
  time and positioning information
• Development of Common Tools and Simulation
  Platforms
• tools to support design, development and
  simulations for performance tradeoffs of
  multi-function hybridized terminals
• Support to Research and Development
• Co-ordination

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• 3. ADAPTING RECEIVERS TO REQUIREMENTS AND
  UPGRADING CORE TECHNOLOGIES 2007
• Study and Demonstration of Innovative Receiver
  Techniques
• Development of receiver techniques to operate in
  harsh environments
• Development of advanced interference mitigation
  techniques
• Investigation of novel interference scenarios
• End-to-end services
• Galileo Receiver and Local Elements Technology
• Personal mobility terminals
• Terminals with multi-frequency capability
• Technology plan for PRS terminals

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• SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE EVOLUTION 2007
• Framework for Liability and Safety Critical
• Applications analysis and requirements
  consolidation
• Initiation of standardisation and certification
  activities
• Associated EGNOS/Galileo evolution definition
• Performance and Evolution of Galileo and EGNOS
  Signals
• Identify the areas to be studied
• Define the metrics that will be used for
  assessment
• 4.4.1.3 Clocks and Time
• Concepts and development plans for advanced
  distributed clock technologies
• SoL and PRS timing service capabilities

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• 4. SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE EVOLUTION 2007
• Flexible Indoor Positioning System
• Analyse user requirements, commercial drivers and
  existing solutions and standards
• System requirements and a preliminary
  architecture
• Interoperability Evolution
• Reviewing GNSS experience and identifying
  opportunities
• Feasibility assessments to improve the
  hybridising
• Standardisation issues

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• 4. SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE EVOLUTION 2007
• International Activities
• Development of a preliminary plan for all regions
  of interest
• Support and co-ordination with regional Galileo
  centres
• Awareness activities
• User fora in different regions
• Applications market uptake and technology
  development

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• Programme Management
• Overall budgetary responsibility with FP7
  Programme committee
• Research defined and Procured by GSA
• Member States representatives in GSA committee

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• BUDGETS AND PROJECTS
• 350 Million over 7 years
• 40 on 2007
• Projects
• STREPS and Specific Support Action
• Normally joint funding 5050
• 100 when ipr is to retained by the public sector
• when ipr is to retained by the public sector
• Support and coordination activities

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• TIMETABLE
• FP7 Programme adopted December 2006
• FP7 Work Programmes publishes December 2006
• First GALILEO Call April/May 2007

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• SOURCES
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/
• http//www.fp7uk.co.uk/
• http//ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy_transport/galileo/
  

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• THANK YOU
• QUESTIONS

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