First invited talk at Stanford GPS Lab: Safety-aware LiDAR Localization (April 2023)

Prof. Li-Ta Hsu was invited to give a 60-minute seminar at the Stanford University GPS Lab on 13 April 2023 — his first invited talk at Stanford. The seminar, Safety-aware Planar Feature-based LiDAR Localization with a Prior Point Cloud Map for Autonomous Driving, was hosted as an Institute of Navigation (ION) section meeting by ION President Dr. Sherman Lo.

The talk presented the lab’s research on integrity-quantifiable LiDAR localization techniques for autonomous driving — bounding the localization error explicitly using geometric properties of detected planar features in the scene, an essential capability for safety-critical autonomous-driving applications. The work builds on the broader Stanford Center for Position, Navigation and Time (SCPNT) research community focus on GNSS and navigation integrity.

The Stanford visit was a milestone for the lab — the start of an ongoing engagement with the Stanford navigation community that has continued through return visits in subsequent years (Stanford PNT Symposium 2023, 2024; Stanford visit during ION PLANS 2025).