Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provides positioning, navigation and timing services for the whole world. China's BDS-3 Navigation Satellite System was officially commissioned in 2020. BDS products have been exported to over 120 countries and regions, serving hundreds of millions of users. Navigation satellites are the most important national spatial information infrastructure in modern social life and other affairs. Together with communications, remote sensing, big data and artificial intelligence, they would serve people in many areas, such as global personal communications, intelligent transportation, disaster prevention and mitigation, emergency response, automatic driving, precision agriculture and high precision timing.
Teaching emphasizes both hands-on experience and exploration of fundamental concepts and methods. Theoretical and practical courses are conducted to enable students to master the GNSS principle, receiver design, augmentation systems and high precision applications. As a bridge between theoretical teaching and hardware experiments, virtual simulation platform has been developed to support BDS/GNSS satellite orbit design, signal design, signal processing and navigation application virtual simulation experiments, thus to improve the teaching visualization while enhancing student experience.
Based on good partnership with Chinese leading enterprises in the domestic satellite navigation industry, such as Beijing BDStar Navigation Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai HuaCe Navigation Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing UniStrong Technology Co., Ltd. etc, a wide range of practice base has been established. Extensive outreach activities, internships, and research collaborations will ensure students understand an industry layout from core technology, components, terminal equipment, solutions to service platforms, and gain insights into real-world problems and applications.
The program also provides opportunities for students to keep track of the frontier technology related to GNSS. To meet the development and application needs of GNSS, 5G/6G communication, low earth orbit satellite internet, internet of vehicles (IoV) and internet of things (IoT), research on high performance signal processing algorithm, anti-jamming/anti-deception algorithm, integrated PNT technology are involved. This program is designed to provide students with the theoretical background and sufficient practical skills to start or advance their careers in GNSS applications.
