Skydel Simulation Engine 

Orolia’s Skydel Simulation Engine offers the best of both worlds: the performance you expect from a top-grade GNSS simulator, coupled with the economy of scale and flexibility of the GPU/SDR architecture.

Packed with a rich feature set including a 1000 Hz simulation iteration rate, remote control from user-defined scripts, and a virtually unlimited number of channels, Skydel offers unmatched flexibility and scalability.

And all of this, packaged in a well-thought-out user interface.

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GSG-8 Advanced GNSS Simulator

Select the software only and use/reuse your own hardware.

Traditional GNSS simulators rely on FPGAs and custom-designed hardware which are either too expensive or provide limited capabilities.

Orolia’s Skydel Simulation Engine uses GPU-accelerated computing and software-defined radios (SDR). This architecture is based on mass-produced hardware which benefits from an economy of scale and high performance.

Moreover, it enables additional capabilities only possible with a software-defined approach to GNSS simulation.

Powerful Automation

Get ultimate control with Skydel's powerful API. Easy to use and comprising hundreds of commands, this API brings an unparalleled level of control over the simulation. It allows the user to build highly complex, elaborate and repeatable scenarios. Skydel comes with open source client libraries for Python, C# and C++.

Aerospace-Ready

Trajectory simulation from the ground up to GEO orbits. The user-friendly interface allows you to configure Earth-orbiting spacecraft trajectories, atmospheric models, multiple GNSS constellations and 3D antenna patterns.

Differential GNSS and Multi-Vehicle Simulation

Multi-vehicle positioning data can greatly improve GNSS location accuracy. For example, in Real-Time Kinematics (RTK), a rover precise location is computed by using base station position data.

Orolia’s Skydel does multi-constellation, multi-signal differential GNSS by synchronizing multiple simulators. For RTK applications, each instance of Skydel will simulate the GNSS signals for either vehicle.

Scenario editor with integrated street maps

Trajectories simulation from the ground up to GEO orbits

Easy comparison between simulation and receiver information

Skydel’s unique architecture delivers the most flexible and powerful GNSS interference testing solution on the market. With the Advanced Jamming module enabled, you can create interference transmitters, assign them signals and trajectories, and watch them interact with the receiver from within the map panel, all in real time. To complete Skydel's use as an interference testing solution, the powerful and easy-to-use Advanced Jamming Module also enables the creation of custom RF waveforms.

Advanced jamming is completely integrated into Skydel. There’s no need for additional and complicated connections with third-party modules. Everything is achieved through the same unique software interface.

• Create user-defined waveforms. Combine Chirp, CW, BOC, AWGN, BPSK, and pulse interference modulation to create custom, complex interference waveforms.

• Create multiple real-time jammers. Up to dozens of interferences can be generated in real time.

• Transmitters can be simple, or dynamic. Skydel’s dynamic jammers can change position relative to the receiver as the simulation progresses. Skydel automatically calculates the resulting signal at the receiver antenna in real time.

• No need for additional hardware: the same SDR used for generating GNSS signal are used to generate interferences. Join two dual-output SDR and cover the two GNSS bands with added jammers.

• Playback your own library of signals, interference and jammers (IQ file playback)

Advanced Jammers in action. During the GNSS simulation, Skydel calculates the signal at the receiver antenna and takes into account the transmitter antenna pattern, propagation loss, and receiver antenna pattern. Click to enlarge.

The software-defined nature of Skydel enables multiple instances of the GNSS simulator to run on the same –or multiple– computer(s). This feature offers research and test labs interesting possibilities for creating advanced simulation setups.

When synchronizing simulators, parameters such as radio and antenna settings, vehicle trajectories, or interference transmitters can be shared between all instances. For other use cases, Skydel users can decide which parameters are automatically synced between connected simulators.

Possible applications of connected simulators include the simulation of:

• Differential GNSS, such as Real-Time Kinematics (RTK), where Skydel instances are used to simulate both Rover(s) and Base
• Spoofing, to test –and help mitigate– its effects on a GNSS receiver Multi-antenna vehicles, for example in the case of space launch vehicles and other rockets
• Attitude measurement using GNSS signals
• Simple or complex arrays of GNSS receivers

Example showing Skydel GNSS simulators used to recreate 4 drones using Real-Time Kinematics (RTK) for precise positioning