Laboratory Report

2 - Report - 30

Exam

1 - Written exam - 70

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The following areas will be covered in this module:  
<ul><li>Characterization of Communication Signals and Systems; Channel capacity  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Carrier and Symbol Synchronization  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Channel Capacity and Coding. Hamming coding algorithm  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Fundamental limitations of communication systems. Shannon-Hartley law and Shannon bound.  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Information entropy. Data compression and source coding. Huffman coding algorithm; Image/Video coding – JPEG/MPEG;  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Introduction to DSP, DSP applications in communications. Channel models. Elements of estimation theory relevant to channel estimation, and synchronisation.  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Spread Spectrum Signals for Digital Communications  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Wireless and microwave free-space and guided communication systems:  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Primary radar, Secondary radar, MTI, CWFM radar  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Antenna, dipole, parabolic dish and antenna arrays  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Advance optical communications  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Networks: TCP/IP Internet, packet switching networks, routing, IP addressing, network modelling.  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Introduction to satellite communications including Starlin </li></ul>
<ul><li>Introduction to Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Satellite System  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Integrating infrastructure with PNT  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Communications for Autonomous systems  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Automatic Dependent Surveillance –Broadcast (ADS-B) &amp; Multi-lateration Systems for Air Traffic Management   </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Self-directed - 

Microwave and Optical communications

Signals and Systems: Continuous and Discrete

Digital Signal Processing

Computer Networking – A Top-Down Approach

Fundamentals of Communication Systems

 Signals and Systems 

Radar and Electronic Navigation

Radar Systems Analysis and Modelling

Digital Signal Processing: Concepts and Applications

EPM109 - Advanced Signal Processing and Communications

EPM109-PRD1-PER-ALV1

This module will be delivered in lectures introducing Advanced signal processing, avionics, and communication theoretical concepts. These concepts will be explored and studied in more details in problem solving sessions. During the self-directed study time, you will be expected to absorb the lectures, read more on the given lectures through textbooks, study the presented problems, and research into current telecommunication and avionics developments that have impact on telecommunications environment and contributing to autonomous systems. All material will be available in Moodle prior to the lectures.  
You will be expected to use the self-directed study hours to work through the problems discussed in the tutorials. In addition, you should also try and learn the fundamentals of the risk assessment criteria for your specific sectors and validate against the theory you learned in the lessons.

Advanced Signal Processing and Communications

Analyse and evaluate advanced software techniques related to satellite communications. (AHEP4 M5)

Knowledge

Develop research skills to enable you to evaluate critically emerging theory and technologies related to Autonomous systems operation. (AHEP4 M5), (AHEP4 M6)  

Skills

Apply concepts from Information Theory, Digital Communications theory and related design techniques to facilitate autonomous navigation of ground, air and space vehicles. (AHEP4 M2), (AHEP4 M3) 

Examine the importance of working with others in promoting an effective and innovative learning environment. (AHEP4 M17)

Values and attitudes

Recognise and take responsibility for developing safe and reliable products and solutions. (AHEP4 M5), (AHEP4 M6)

Analyse the performance and limitations of sensing and communication technologies related to Autonomous Systems. (AHEP4 M4)

Develop novel concepts and evaluate them through suitable hardware and/or software platforms. (AHEP4 M12), (AHEP4 M5)

Apply analytic and design knowledge related to Autonomous Systems Communications and Sensing creatively and in innovative ways. (AHEP4 M12)

Apply advanced Signal Processing algorithms related to the operation of autonomous systems. (AHEP4 M1)