Reference number : GC-2017-Q2-00089, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Roy, Sébastien (Université de Sherbrooke), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Quebec|Québec, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Engage Grants for Universities, program name french : Subventions d'engagement partenarial pour les universités, program purpose english : Researchers at the Thales Research and Technology (TRT) Quebec City research center require a functional_x000D_
testbed for a radio signal identification and geolocation system. This system would entail multiple acquisition_x000D_
stations, each equipped with an adaptive antenna array and a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in order_x000D_
to support software-defined radio (SDR) prototyping. The present proposal represents the first phase in the_x000D_
development of this testbed, and is based upon the expertise of Professor Roy and his team in adaptive antenna_x000D_
arrays, SDR, and geolocation._x000D_
Given the very ambitious scope of the proposed testbed, this initial 6-month phase will be limited to two_x000D_
aspects: 1- development, implementation on actual SDR hardware, and validation of an appropriate calibration_x000D_
scheme for radio signal direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation based on smart antenna arrays; 2- development_x000D_
of a geolocation and RF signal identification algorithm in context based on software simulation alone., program purpose french : Researchers at the Thales Research and Technology (TRT) Quebec City research center require a functional_x000D_
testbed for a radio signal identification and geolocation system. This system would entail multiple acquisition_x000D_
stations, each equipped with an adaptive antenna array and a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in order_x000D_
to support software-defined radio (SDR) prototyping. The present proposal represents the first phase in the_x000D_
development of this testbed, and is based upon the expertise of Professor Roy and his team in adaptive antenna_x000D_
arrays, SDR, and geolocation._x000D_
Given the very ambitious scope of the proposed testbed, this initial 6-month phase will be limited to two_x000D_
aspects: 1- development, implementation on actual SDR hardware, and validation of an appropriate calibration_x000D_
scheme for radio signal direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation based on smart antenna arrays; 2- development_x000D_
of a geolocation and RF signal identification algorithm in context based on software simulation alone., agreement title english : Testbed for RF signal identification and positioning based on antenna arrays and software-defined radio (SDR), agreement title french : Testbed for RF signal identification and positioning based on antenna arrays and software-defined radio (SDR), agreement number : EGP, agreement value : 25000.0, agreement start date : 2017-07-12, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada