IPNL at ION GNSS+ 2018

IPNL presented research at the ION GNSS+ 2018 conference, held from September 24 to 28, 2018, in Miami, Florida. The ION GNSS+ conference is the premier annual gathering for the global satellite navigation community, organized by the Institute of Navigation, and regularly attracts thousands of attendees from academia, government, and industry to present and discuss the latest developments in GNSS technology and applications.

Dr. Li-Ta Hsu and the IPNL team contributed presentations addressing key challenges in urban GNSS positioning. Research topics included the analysis and modeling of GPS NLOS effects in highly urbanized areas, intelligent GNSS/INS integrated navigation for commercial UAV flight control, and performance analysis of NDT-based graph SLAM for autonomous vehicles in typical Hong Kong driving scenarios. These contributions reflected the lab’s growing portfolio of work at the intersection of GNSS, inertial navigation, LiDAR-based mapping, and autonomous systems.

The conference provided an opportunity for the IPNL team to engage with leading researchers in the navigation community and to receive feedback on their approaches to multipath mitigation, NLOS correction, and sensor fusion. The 2018 edition of ION GNSS+ was a particularly productive year for the lab, coinciding with several journal publications in GPS Solutions, Aerospace Science and Technology, and Sensors that advanced the understanding of urban positioning challenges and the integration of complementary sensing modalities for robust navigation.