Publications de Pierre-André Farine

Design and Optimization of a Low Power and Fast Response Viscometer Used for Determination of the Natural Gas Wobbe Index

Gaël André Léon Farine, Pierre-André Farine, Danick Briand, Conor Joseph Slater, Marjan Shaker

This paper reports on the design of a microsystem-based thermal gas viscometer used for the determination of the quality of natural gas and its optimization through modification of its two main components: the hotplate and the capillary tube. Features, suc ...

2019

Soft triboelectric generators by the use of cost-effective elastomers and simple casting process

Pierre-André Farine, Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque

2018

A wrist sensor and algorithm to determine instantaneous walking cadence and speed in daily life walking

Kamiar Aminian, Pierre-André Farine, Cyntia Duc, Benedikt Fasel, Martin Savary, Flavien Bardyn, Farzin Dadashi

In daily life, a person’s gait—an important marker for his/her health status—is usually assessed using inertial sensors fixed to lower limbs or trunk. Such sensor locations are not well suited for continuous and long duration measurements. A better locatio ...

Springer Heidelberg2017

Study on the cross-correlation of GNSS signals and typical approximations

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

In global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, the first signal processing stage is the acquisition, which consists in detecting the received GNSS signals and determining the associated code delay and Doppler frequency by means of correlations wit ...

Springer Verlag2017

GPS Based Navigation Performance Analysis within and beyond the Space Service Volume for Different Transmitters’ Antenna Patterns

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Endrit Shehaj, Paul David Blunt

In recent years, global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based navigation in high earth orbits (HEOs) has become a field of research interest since it can increase the spacecraft’s autonomy, thereby reducing the operating costs. However, the GNSS availab ...

2017

Availability and ranging error analysis for a GPS L1/L5 receiver navigating to the Moon

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Ban Wang, Vincenzo Capuano, Endrit Shehaj, Paul David Blunt

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based navigation is already adopted in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), where the presence of strong GNSS signals and the good relative geometry between the receiver and the transmitters enable precise orbit determination. H ...

Ieee2017

Carrier Tracking using Extended Kalman Filters for GNSS Synthetic Aperture Processing with a Rotating Antenna

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo

A single GNSS antenna moving along a known trajectory can be used to synthesize a virtual array in order to apply spatial diversity techniques, e.g. beamforming. With these techniques, referred as synthetic aperture (SA) techniques, the receiver can mitiga ...

2017

Soft triboelectric band for sensing of and energy scavenging from body motion

Pierre-André Farine, Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque

2017

Fully casted stretchable triboelectric device for energy harvesting and sensing made of elastomeric materials

Pierre-André Farine, Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Grégoire Hugo Ferracci

IEEE2017

Feature article: High sensitivity acquisition of GNSS signals with secondary code on FPGAs

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

The modern global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) signals, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) L5 and L1C, and Galileo E5 and E1, have brought several innovations: the introduction of a pilot channel that does not contain any data to allow very ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

GNSS Multipath Estimation and Mitigation Using a Rotating Antenna

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo

We describe the experimental framework that we have developed to study the use of synthetic aperture in GNSS receivers to estimate and mitigate multipath interference. By combining the signal received by a single moving antenna during different time instan ...

2017

GNSS/INS/Star Tracker Integration for Real-Time On-Board Autonomous Orbit and Attitude Determination in LEO, MEO, GEO and Beyond

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Endrit Shehaj, Paul David Blunt

In our previous studies, we demonstrated that Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals can be processed, not only in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), but also in higher earth orbits, up to the Moon. In order to maximize the GNSSbased navigation performance, ...

2017

Orbital Filter Aiding of a High Sensitivity GPS Receiver for Lunar Missions

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Paul David Blunt

Recent studies have shown that weak Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals could potentially be used to navigate from the Earth to the Moon. This would increase autonomy, robustness and flexibility of the navigation architectures for future luna ...

Wiley Periodicals, Inc2017

An adaptive GNSS-based reduced dynamic approach for real time autonomous navigation from the Earth to the Moon

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Endrit Shehaj, Paul David Blunt

In this research study we describe our last effort in further improving the achievable Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based navigation performance in an Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit (MTO). The GNSS-based orbital filter we implemented previously wit ...

2017

Estimation Bounds for GNSS Synthetic Aperture Techniques

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo

This paper characterizes the estimation performance of synthetic aperture (SA) techniques in the context of moving GNSS receivers. Under the assumption of a stationary channel, SA techniques transform a single antenna into a virtual array. We first introdu ...

2017

High accuracy GNSS based navigation in GEO

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Endrit Shehaj, Paul David Blunt

Although significant improvements in efficiency and performance of communication satellites have been achieved in the past decades, it is expected that the demand for new platforms in Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and for the On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) on the ex ...

Elsevier2017

Design, fabrication and optimization of a silicon MEMS natural gas sensor

Gaël André Léon Farine, Pierre-André Farine, Danick Briand, Conor Joseph Slater, Marjan Shaker

2017

3D printed materials based triboelectric device for energy harvesting and sensing

Pierre-André Farine, Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque

2017

Driven dual phase lock loop

Steve Tanner, Pierre-André Farine, Yazhou Zhao

The invention relates to a phase lock loop (100) comprising: - a loop filter (140), - a voltage controlled oscillator (150), - a frequency divider (160), - a frequency lock detector (113), able to emit a frequency lock indication signal (LOCK), - a digital ...

2016

Orbital Filter Aiding of a High Sensitivity GPS Receiver for Lunar Missions

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Paul David Blunt

Recent studies have shown that weak Global Navigation Satellites System (GNSS) signals could potentially be used to navigate from the Earth to the Moon. This would increase autonomy, robustness and flexibility of the navigation architectures for future lun ...

Institute Of Navigation2016