TTK5 Satellite and Inertial Navigation Systems

Note for 2026

In the fall of 2026 there will be no physical teaching. The students will be provided updated lecture notes and lecture recordings from 2025. TTK5 for 2026 can be considered as self-study. Some shorter Q&A sessions will be organized throughout the semester.

Instructor: Associate Professor Torleiv Håland Bryne (torleiv.h.bryne@ntnu.no)

Description:

This course is an introduction to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and GNSS augmentations and how these can be integrated with inertial navigation systems (INS). This includes GNSS principles and measurement processing algorithms, augmented GNSS system architectures and applications.

Topics

The topics are organized in to five sessions / lectures.

Introduction to GNSS
GNSS measurements and error sources
GNSS positioning
GNSS-based remote sensing: GNSS Reflectometry
Aided Inertial Navigation and Timing

Communication

Teams will be used to communicate and distributed information and material to the students. Students regiserted will be added manunally by the instructor based on the registration list. If you are not added to Teams by semester start, contact the instrutor.

Literature for compulsory reading (to be distributed electronically):

Lecture notes will be distributed by on Teams to the students registered for the course throughout the course.
Students that would like to follow the course without taking the exam should send an e-mail to torleiv.h.bryne@ntnu.no to get access to the lectures and course material.

Exam

Oral exam organized in the context of TTK4555. You must be on the list of registered students for TTK5 maintained by the department to take the exam. If you change specialization topics you must contact the department for the list to be updated.

Recommended addtional readring:

GNSS Data Processing, Volume 1: Fundamentals and Algorithms, By ESA Communications. Can be downloaded from here:https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_Publications/ESA_TM-23_GNSS_DATA_PROCESSING