GAUSS - towards a common certification process for GNSS applications unsing the European Satellite System Galileo

Abstract

The future European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Gali-leo contains services which guarantee a specified level of service. The so-called safety-of-live service guarantees a defined integrity. This can be used in different modes of transport to ensure the safety of the operation. The criticality of these applications is the reason for more or less de-tailed and strict defined certification processes and requirements. These are defined by national or international or authorities. Safety critical applica-tions can use GNSS for localisation and timing purposes. But if the do, they have to fulfil the mode-specific requirements. The generic localisation func-tionality and technology is not specific for one mode of transport. Because of that the aim of the project GAUSS project described in this contribution is to identify the generic parts and the mode-specific parts and to define an acceptable base part of a certification which can be re-used or cross ac-cepted in the different transport domains. Currently in the focus are air, road, rail and maritime transport. The final contribution will show some relevant differences and similarities as well as requirements towards testing and evaluation equipment. In the year 2007 the the GAUSS project was started. It is funded par-tially by the Ministry of Economics and the Ministry of Science of Lower Saxony, Germany, and brings together research and industry partners in the field of certification for safety-critical GNSS applications. From the indus-try side these are Aerodata, etamax Space, ITS Niedersachsen, NavCert, Oecon and TÜV Nord Cert. The academic partners are the Institute of Transportation Systems of the DLR and the Institute of the Flight Guidance and the Institut für Verkehrssicherheit und Automatisierungstechnik of the Technische Universität Braunschweig.