Precise and Robust Navigation enabling Applications in Disturbed Signal Environments (PARADISE). Enabling precise and robust satellite navigation not only under open sky conditions but also under disturbed GNSS signal conditions (typically in forest and in urban canyon environments) is the last open challenge for precise satellite navigation in outdoor. Concerning accuracy, the current existing 'state-of-the-art' professional GNSS receivers are enabling precise GNSS positioning solutions with an accuracy better than 0,5 m. These receivers are only working under open sky (strong signal without major multipath effects) conditions. There are many GNSS receiver working under disturbed signal conditions (mass market receivers), but these are typically providing accuracies of 10-30 meters in disturbed environments and are therefore not suited for applications requiring high accuracy in disturbed signal environments. Concerning robustness, often an integration with medium performance inertial sensor is done to overcome short periods of disturbance. However if working in a generally disturbed environment is the nominal case, this approach doesn't help any further. Another drawback of existing IMU integration solutions is the high costs related with the need of ahigh quality IMU sensor (from 1.000 to 10.000 EUR). To overcome these limitations, IFEN is working since many years on this problem. With projects finalized in February 2013, a first receiver bread-board is existing, confirming the viability of the proposed technical concept (called micro-trajectory augmented with MEMS sensors) at a TRL3. Extending the current concept towards multi-frequency (GPS L1/L5 and Galileo E1 and E5) and inserting a low-cost MEMS (below 100 EUR) will further increase accuracy and robustness, making it suited to be transfered towards a marketable technology. The marketable prototype receiver (TRL7) will be demonstrated in typical precise applications in forest and urban environments.

Forest biomass is currently one of the most important source of renewable energy and accounts for almost half of the EU’s total renewable energy consumption. In addition to raw materials, forests also provide a wide range of vital non-wood services that should be protected during wood extraction. The innovation project Forwarder2020 has the main aim of improving sustainability of wood production and delivery as well as operational forest management and planning through the development of specific modules for more efficient forwarders (wood extraction and transportation vehicles): • hydrostatic-mechanical power-split transmission • hydro-pneumatic suspension of the forwarder • hybrid hydraulic system for driving the crane with double recuperation of the potential energy • bogie axle with three instead of two driven wheels at each side to be mounted under the timber load • monitoring system for transparency and documentation of process data like machine data, static and dynamic load over time and position The combined effect of these five innovations applied to forwarders will have the following impact: • lowering of the dynamic wheel load by 25% over the same forwarder without suspension at same payload and speed. • reduction of rut depths by 50% • lowering fuel consumption while driving over the existing hydrostatic transmissions by 30% • making long hauling distances more economic by the efficiency of the power-split transmission • lowering fuel consumption while loading and unloading due to the double recuperation of the potential energy of the crane mass by 30%. • more precise planning of the tracks and documentation of the loads carried on the specific part of the track • supplying to the market a unique and modular system of high-end solutions above the competitors, where the customer can make his choice of equipment and bear no higher costs for the modules not chosen. • bring consortium partners and thus Europe to a strong position on markets