UCC Research Profiles: cillian.odriscoll@ucc.ie, Medicine

Contact Details

Research Support Officer
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
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Electrical and Electronic Engineering Building

E: cillian.odriscoll@ucc.ie

Cillian O'Driscoll completed his PhD studies in Electrical Engineering in UCC in 2006 on the subject of performance analysis of the acquisition of weak GPS signals. From 2007 to 2010 he was a senior research engineer in the Position, Location And Navigation (PLAN) group at the University of Calgary in Canada. In Calgary his research focussed on high sensitivity Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver design, integration of GNSS and Inertial sensors and the development of real-time software GNSS receivers.

From 2011 to 2013 he was with the European Commission, first as a researcher at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy then as a Policy Officer with the European Satellite Navigation Programmes Directorate in Brussels. He returned to UCC in January 2014 to take up a position as a research support officer in the Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT) centre.

	Year	Publication
	(2013)	'Codeless processing of binary offset carrier modulated signals' Borio, D., Rao, M., O'driscoll, C. (2013) 'Codeless processing of binary offset carrier modulated signals'. IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, 7 (2):143-152 [Details]
	(2010)	'Composite GNSS Signal Acquisition over Multiple Code Periods' Borio, D., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2010) 'Composite GNSS Signal Acquisition over Multiple Code Periods'. IEEE Transaction On Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 46 (1):193-206 [Details]
	(2009)	'A Simplified Expression for the Probability of Error for Binary Multichannel Communications' O'Driscoll, C,Murphy, CC; (2009) 'A Simplified Expression for the Probability of Error for Binary Multichannel Communications'. IEEE Transactions On Communications, 57 :32-35 [DOI] [Details]
	(2009)	'Coherent, noncoherent, and differentially coherent combining techniques for acquisition of new composite GNSS signals' Borio, D., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2009) 'Coherent, noncoherent, and differentially coherent combining techniques for acquisition of new composite GNSS signals'. IEEE Transaction On Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 45 (3):1227-1240 [Details]

Other Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2012)	'LightSquared effects on estimated C/N0, pseudoranges and positions' Rao, M., O'Driscoll, C., Borio, D., Fortuny, J. (2012) 'LightSquared effects on estimated C/N0, pseudoranges and positions' GPS Solutions, :1-13. [Details]
	(2012)	'Methodology for comparing two carrier phase tracking techniques' Salem, D.R., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2012) 'Methodology for comparing two carrier phase tracking techniques' GPS Solutions, 16 (2) :197-207. [Details]
	(2011)	'Choosing the coherent integration time for Kalman filter-based carrier-phase tracking of GNSS signals' O'Driscoll, C., Petovello, M.G., Lachapelle, G. (2011) 'Choosing the coherent integration time for Kalman filter-based carrier-phase tracking of GNSS signals' GPS Solutions, 15 (4) :345-356. [Details]
	(2011)	'Dynamic duo: Combined Gps/Glonass receivers in urban environments' O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G., Tamazin, M. (2011) 'Dynamic duo: Combined Gps/Glonass receivers in urban environments' GPS World, 22 (1) :51-58. [Details]

Conference Publications

	Year	Publication
	(2013)	2013 International Conference on Localization and GNSS, ICL-GNSS 2013 Borio, D., O'Driscoll, C., Fortuny, J. (2013) Jammer impact on Galileo and GPS receivers 2013 International Conference on Localization and GNSS, ICL-GNSS 2013 [Details]
	(2012)	6th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies: Multi-GNSS Navigation Technologies Galileo's Here, NAVITEC 2012 and European Workshop on GNSS Signals and Signal Processing Borio, D., O'Driscoll, C., Fortuny, J. (2012) GNSS jammers: Effects and countermeasures 6th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies: Multi-GNSS Navigation Technologies Galileo's Here, NAVITEC 2012 and European Workshop on GNSS Signals and Signal Processing [Details]
	(2012)	25th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2012, ION GNSS 2012 O'Driscoll, C., Fortuny-Guasch, J. (2012) On the determination of C/A code self-interference with application to RFC analysis and pseudolite systems 25th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2012, ION GNSS 2012 , pp.3620-3626 [Details]
	(2012)	Record - IEEE PLANS, Position Location and Navigation Symposium O'Driscoll, C., Rao, M., Borio, D., Cano, E., Fortuny, J., Bastide, F., Hayes, D. (2012) Compatibility analysis between LightSquared signals and L1/E1 GNSS reception Record - IEEE PLANS, Position Location and Navigation Symposium , pp.447-454 [Details]
	(2011)	Institute of Navigation - International Technical Meeting 2011, ITM 2011 Lin, T., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2011) Development of a context-aware vector-based high-sensitivity GNSS software receiver Institute of Navigation - International Technical Meeting 2011, ITM 2011 , pp.1043-1055 [Details]
	(2011)	24th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2011, ION GNSS 2011 Lin, T., Curran, J.T., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2011) Implementation of a navigation domain GNSS signal tracking loop 24th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2011, ION GNSS 2011 , pp.3644-3651 [Details]
	(2011)	24th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2011, ION GNSS 2011 O'Driscoll, C., Borio, D., Fortuny-Guasch, J. (2011) Investigation of pulsing schemes for pseudolite applications 24th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2011, ION GNSS 2011 , pp.3480-3492 [Details]
	(2011)	Institute of Navigation - International Technical Meeting 2011, ITM 2011 Ma, M.S.H., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2011) Automatic parameter determination for real-time acquisition using frequency domain methods in a high sensitivity software receiver Institute of Navigation - International Technical Meeting 2011, ITM 2011 , pp.1257-1269 [Details]
	(2011)	24th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2011, ION GNSS 2011 Symeonidis, D., Fortuny-Guasch, J., O'Driscoll, C., Martinez, A.B. (2011) Scintillation parameter estimation using unmodified professional GNSS receivers: A feasibility study 24th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2011, ION GNSS 2011 , pp.2580-2587 [Details]
	(2011)	2011 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2011 Borio, D., O'Driscoll, C., Fortuny-Guasch, J. (2011) Pulsed pseudolite signal effects on non-participating GNSS receivers 2011 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2011 [Details]
	(2010)	Institute of Navigation - International Technical Meeting 2010, ITM 2010 Kneževic, A., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2010) Co-processor aiding for real-time software GNSS receivers Institute of Navigation - International Technical Meeting 2010, ITM 2010 , pp.837-848 [Details]
	(2010)	23rd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2010, ION GNSS 2010 Lin, T., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2010) Channel context detection and signal quality monitoring for vector-based tracking loops 23rd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2010, ION GNSS 2010 , pp.1875-1888 [Details]
	(2010)	23rd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2010, ION GNSS 2010 O'Driscoll, C., Tamazin, M.E., Borio, D., Lachapelle, G. (2010) Investigation of the benefits of combined GPS/GLONASS for high sensitivity receivers 23rd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2010, ION GNSS 2010 , pp.2840-2851 [Details]
	(2009)	22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2009, ION GNSS 2009 Lin, T., Broumandan, A., Nielsen, J., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2009) Robust beamforming for GNSS synthetic antenna arrays 22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2009, ION GNSS 2009 , pp.2778-2792 [Details]
	(2009)	22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2009, ION GNSS 2009 Kazemi, P.L., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2009) Digital phase locked loop with frequency rate feedback 22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2009, ION GNSS 2009 , pp.1471-1478 [Details]
	(2009)	22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2009, ION GNSS 2009 Megahed, D., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2009) Performance evaluation of combined L1/L5 Kalman filter-based tracking versus standalone L1/L5 tracking in challenging environments 22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2009, ION GNSS 2009 , pp.3091-3101 [Details]
	(2009)	IEEE International Conference on Communications O'Mahony, N., O'Driscoll, C., Murphy, C.C. (2009) Performance of sequential probability ratio test for GPS acquisition IEEE International Conference on Communications [Details]
	(2009)	22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2009, ION GNSS 2009 Zaheri, M., Broumandan, A., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2009) Enhanced GNSS indoor signal detectability using polarization diversity 22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2009, ION GNSS 2009 , pp.395-405 [Details]
	(2008)	21st International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2008 Izadpanah, A., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2008) GPS multipath parameterization using the Extended Kalman filter and a dual LHCP/RHCP antenna 21st International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2008 , pp.949-957 [Details]
	(2008)	21st International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2008 Kazemi, P.L., O'Driscoll, C. (2008) Comparison of assisted and stand-alone methods for increasing coherent integration time for weak GPS signal tracking 21st International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2008 , pp.1043-1053 [Details]
	(2008)	Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation, National Technical Meeting Petovello, M.G., O'Driscoll, C., Lachapelle, G. (2008) Carrier phase tracking of weak signals using different receiver architectures Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation, National Technical Meeting , pp.781-791 [Details]
	(2008)	Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation, National Technical Meeting O'Driscoll, C., Petovello, M.G., Lachapelle, G. (2008) Software receiver strategies for the acquisition and re-acquisition of weak GPS signals Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation, National Technical Meeting , pp.843-854 [Details]
	(2007)	20th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation 2007 ION GNSS 2007 O'Driscoll, C., Murphy, C.C. (2007) A simple technique for the detection of multiple access interference in the parallel acquisition of weak gps signals 20th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation 2007 ION GNSS 2007 , pp.282-291 [Details]
	(2005)	Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation, National Technical Meeting O'Driscoll, C., Murphy, C.C. (2005) Performance analysis of an FFT based fast acquisition GPS receiver Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation, National Technical Meeting , pp.1014-1024 [Details]
	(2002)	Irish Signals and Systems O'Driscoll C., Murphy C.C.; (2002) The Rijndael Key Schedule: Some Algebraically Motivated Architectural Simplifications . In: * eds. Irish Signals and Systems University College Cork, , 25-JUN-02 - 26-JUN-02 , pp.283-287 [Details]

Published Reports

	Year	Publication
	(2013)	CONIP: Communication and Navigation Infrastructure Protection: EPCIP 2011 - WP2.1-2.2. Characterization of GNSS Jammers. Borio, Daniele and Fortuny Guasch, Joaquim and O'Driscoll, Cillian (2013) CONIP: Communication and Navigation Infrastructure Protection: EPCIP 2011 - WP2.1-2.2. Characterization of GNSS Jammers. European Commission, Luxembourg. [Details]
	(2012)	Compatibility Analysis between LightSquared and L1/E1 GNSS Signals. Borio, D. and O'Driscoll, C. and Rao, M. and Cano Pons, E. and Fortuny, J. (2012) Compatibility Analysis between LightSquared and L1/E1 GNSS Signals. European Commission, Luxembourg. [Details]

Thesis/Dissertation

	Year	Publication
	(2007)	Performance Analysis of the Parallel Acquisition of Weak GPS Signals. O'Driscoll, Cillian (2007) Performance Analysis of the Parallel Acquisition of Weak GPS Signals. Thesis/Dissertation [CORA Link] [Details]
	(2001)	Hardware implementation aspects of the Rijndael block cipher. O'Driscoll, C. (2001) Hardware implementation aspects of the Rijndael block cipher. Thesis/Dissertation [Details]

Professional Activities

Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	IEEE	Member	/
	Institute of Navigation	Member	/

Employment

Employer	Position	From / To
University of Calgary	Senior Research Engineer	01-FEB-07 / 03-DEC-10
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission	Grantholder	16-JAN-11 / 05-JUL-13
European Commission	Policy Officer - European Satellite Navigation Programmes	01-AUG-13 / 31-DEC-13
National University of Ireland, Galway	Lecturer	01-SEP-05 / 31-AUG-06

Education

Year	Instituion	Qualification	Subject
2002	University College Cork	MEngSc	Hardware implementation of cryptographic algorithms
1999	University College Cork	BACHELOR OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERNG	Electrical Engineering
2007	University College Cork	PhD	Acquisition of weak GPS signals