Congratulations to Jérémy Brossard who has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “ Application de la commande B à un quadricoptère ” , the June 7th, 2019.
The jury members include:
Prof. David Bensoussan, Thesis Supervisor, Department of electrical engineering, ÉTS
Prof. René Jr Landry, (...)

−Universities and aerospace companies collaborate to develop an integrated communication, navigation and surveillance solution for use in modern aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles−
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – July 11, 2019 – The project entitled “Next-Generation SDR Avionics for Communication, Navigation and Surveillance” (...)

Congratulations to Tilahun Melkamu Getu who has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Advanced RFI Detection, RFI Excision and Spectrum Sensing: Algorithms and Performance Analyses” as of March 7th, 2019.
Being part of the NSERC CRD AVIO-601 project pursued under the leadership of LASSENA, the (...)

Congratulations to Mohamed Lajmi Cherif who successfully completed his Master oral defense titled “Linear multi-sensor integrated navigation system for reliable car navigation in a harsh environment” on February 27th, 2019.
As a part of the NSERC CRD VTADS project at LASSENA, the goal of his research is to (...)

Congratulations to Abdessamad Amrhar who successfully completed his Master oral defense titled “RECONFIGURABLE FPGA IMPLEMENTATION FOR AVIONIC SYSTEMS” on December 11th, 2018. He also got the following mention: Excellent with full recommendation of the jury to the best ÉTS master degree competition.
As a part of (...)

Congratulations to Eric Zhang who successfully completed his Master oral defense titled “Design and Implementation of a Wideband Radio for Avionic Applications” on December 3rd, 2018.
As a part of the NSERC CRD AVIO-505 project at LASSENA, the goal of his research is to design and implement a Wideband Radio (WBR) (...)

Congratulations to Golrokh Araghi who successfully completed her Master oral defense entitled “Development of a temperature dependent model for online calibration of very low-cost inertial sensors” on October 10, 2018.
As a part of the NSERC CRD VTADS project at LASSENA, her work focus on development of (...)

Congratulations to Dr. Maherizo Andrianarison who successfully completed his PhD defense on October 2, 2018. The title of his thesis is “New Methods and Architectures for High Sensitivity Hybrid GNSS Receivers in Challenging Environments”. His PhD work involves the processing of weak GNSS signals by proposing new (...)

Congratulations to the AVIO-505 team! The paper “In-Flight Performance Analysis of a Wideband Radio Using SDR for Avionic Applications” won the Best of Session (CNS-C: Communications Technologies) Award at 37th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC). The authors of the paper are Anh-Quang Nguyen, (...)

Congratulations to Anh-Quang Nguyen who passed his master oral defense entitled “Direct RF Sampling Architecture for VHF Avionics” with the degree of excellence on August 29, 2018.
As a part of the CRIAQ AVIO-505 project at LASSENA, his work focuses on studying the feasibility and capability of the DRFS (...)

The 8th and last Scientific Meeting of the AVIO-505 project was successfully held on February 19, 2018, at the Department of Electrical Engineering of ÉTS. Twenty-one attendees including professors, students, industrial partners (from Bombardier, Marinvent) and special guests (from Thales UK, SII Canada, CMC, CAE, (...)

Congratulations to Dr. Neda Navidi who successfully completed her PhD defense on January 19, 2018. Her thesis "Driving Behavior Assessment Based on GPS and Inertial Sensors Measurements" will be available on the LASSENA website in the coming weeks. The jury members include: • Prof. René Jr Landry, Thesis (...)

Congratulations to Dave Côté who passed his master oral defense on October 4, 2017.
His thesis title is "Détermination de l’angle de lacet et tangage à partir d’un récepteur GPS simple fréquence et comparaison des performances à des récepteurs de qualité public et géodésique". The primary objective of his research is to (...)

Congratulation to AVIO-505 team! The paper "Direct RF Sampling Transceiver Architecture Applied to VHF Radio, ACARS, and ELTs" won the Best of Session (IMA-4) Award at DASC’17. This paper also got to the semi-finalist of Student Research Competition at this conference, and therefore AVIO-505 have the chance to (...)

Congratulations to Mme. Neda Navidi who was presented the Best Paper Award in ICCSTE 2017 (Vancouve,Canada,August 7-8,2017).
Mme. Neda Navidi is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Rene Jr Landry, and the paper rewarded is "Location Detection of Vehicular Accident Using Global Navigation Satellite (...)

Congratulations to Mr. Abdessamad Amrhar who was presented the Best Student Paper Award in ICNS 2017( Herdon, VA,USA, April 18-20, 2017). We also congratulate the other authors of the paper: Alireza Avakh Kisomi, Eric Zhang, Joe Zambrano, Claude Thibeault, René Jr. Landry. Mr. Abdessamad Amrhar is a Master (...)

Congratulations to Adrien Mixed which received honors for his defense on August 28, 2015.
His project, ibNav, focused on the development of a prototype capture movements and inland waterways based on the use of imu-mems platforms at low cost.
IbNav uses low cost inertial sensors combined with inertial algorithms (...)

Congratulations to Mr. Marc-Antoine Fortin who made his PhD oral exam successfully. The works of mister Fortin’s master’s degree, subject the title of which is entitled "Robustness Techniques for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Receivers" overseen by professor Landry, prevailed him the recognition of the (...)

Congratulations to Mrs. Neda Navidi who gets the Best Poster Award during the UAV-g 2015 conference, in Toronto, Canada, the September 2nd 2015.
Mrs.Neda Navidi, a PH.D Student in ETS and overseen by professor Landry, was rewarded for his paper entitled "A new survey on self-tuning integrated low-cost GPS/INS (...)

The work entitled "Integrated Direct RF Sampling Front-end for VHF Avionics Systems" has been recognized as the Best Future Communications Paper at the 2015 Integrated Communication, Navigation, & Surveillance Conference held at Herndon (USA) on April 21-23, 2015. This publication, which has been generated as (...)

The work entitled "DME/DME Navigation using a Single Low-Cost SDR and Sequential Operation" has been recognized as the Best Paper of the Session at the 33rd Digital Avionics System Conference held at Colorado Springs (USA) on October 5-9, 2014. This publication, which has been generated as a result of AVIO-505 (...)

Recently, Professor René Jr. Landry from the Department of Electrical Engineering of ÉTS has obtained a Collaborative Research and Development grant (CRD) from NSERC and co-funded by CRIAQ with a budget over $1.8M. The four-year research project will be conducted in collaboration with four industrial partners (MDA, (...)

Congratulations to Mr. Stéphane Ehouman who has obtained the second prize at ReSMiQ Innovation Day competition celebrated on September 18, 2014. Stéphane presented his PFE : "Development of a VOR Receiver Using a USRP Software Defined Radio", carried out at LASSENA under the supervision of Professor (...)

Congratulations to Mr. Mohammad Honarparvar who passed the Ph.D. oral examination part of his DGA-1033. Mohammad’s thesis is entitled : "Design of a Reconfigurable RF ADC For Flexible Direct RF Sampling Avionic Receivers". Mohammad’ is supervised by Professor Landry and co-supervised by Professor Sawan from École (...)

The LASSENA is pleased to invite you to international conferences about AMOOS project, Autonomous Mission for On-Orbit Servicing, of the 2014 ISU SSP.
Four conferences will take place during 2 weeks :
June 18th 2014 : Steve Ulrich, from Carlton University, will expose you Advanced GN&C Systems for (...)

To provide a solution robust and accurate navigation , GPS receivers must operate in optimal conditions , that is to say have a direct line of sight with at least four satellites, which is hard to find in an urban environment where GPS signals may be contaminated with significant multipath errors . Coupling GPS (...)