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In urban environments, where line-of-sight signals from GNSS satellites are frequently blocked by high-rise objects, GNSS receivers are subject to large errors in measuring satellite ranges. Heuristic methods are commonly used to estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Amir Jalalirad , Davide Belli , Bence Major , Songwon Jee , Himanshu Shah , Will Morrison

Localization in GPS-denied environments is critical for autonomous systems, and traditional methods like SLAM have limitations in generalizability across diverse environments. Magnetic-based navigation (MagNav) offers a robust solution by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Aditya Penumarti , Kristy Waters , Humberto Ramos , Kevin Brink , Jane Shin

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) provides critical positioning information globally, but its accuracy in dense urban environments is often compromised by multipath and non-line-of-sight errors. Road network data can be used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Hans van Gorp , Davide Belli , Amir Jalalirad , Bence Major

Harnessing the magnetic field of the Earth for navigation has shown promise as a viable alternative to other navigation systems. A magnetic navigation system collects its own magnetic field data using a magnetometer and uses magnetic…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming largely ubiquitous with an increasing demand for aerial data. Accurate navigation and localization, required for precise data collection in many industrial applications, often relies on RTK GNSS.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yu Xianjia , Li Qingqing , Jorge Pena Queralta , Jukka Heikkonen , Tomi Westerlund

Quantized neural networks typically require smaller memory footprints and lower computation complexity, which is crucial for efficient deployment. However, quantization inevitably leads to a distribution divergence from the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Runpei Dong , Zhanhong Tan , Mengdi Wu , Linfeng Zhang , Kaisheng Ma

Geomagnetic navigation has drawn increasing attention with its capacity in navigating through complex environments and its independence from external navigation services like global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Existing studies on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Wenqi Bai , Xiaohui Zhang , Shiliang Zhang , Songnan Yang , Yushuai Li , Tingwen Huang

Quantum sensing exploits the strong sensitivity of quantum systems to measure small external signals. The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is one of the most promising platforms for real-world quantum sensing applications,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Ziwei Qiu , Uri Vool , Assaf Hamo , Amir Yacoby

Magnetic navigation (MagNav) is a rising alternative to the Global Positioning System (GPS) and has proven useful for aircraft navigation. Traditional aircraft navigation systems, while effective, face limitations in precision and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Favour Nerrise , Andrew Sosa Sosanya , Patrick Neary

Geomagnetic navigation leverages the ubiquitous Earth's magnetic signals to navigate missions, without dependence on GPS services or pre-stored geographic maps. It has drawn increasing attention and is promising particularly for long-range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Songnan Yang , Shiliang Zhang , Qianyun Zhang , Xiaohui Zhang , Xuehui Ma

Accurate localization is crucial for various applications, including autonomous vehicles and next-generation wireless networks. However, the reliability and precision of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as the Global…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Gouranga Charan , Tawfik Osman , Ahmed Alkhateeb

This paper studies image-based geo-localization (IBL) problem using ground-to-aerial cross-view matching. The goal is to predict the spatial location of a ground-level query image by matching it to a large geotagged aerial image database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Liu Liu , Hongdong Li

This paper deals with the problem of localization in a cellular network in a dense urban scenario. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) typically perform poorly in urban environments, where the likelihood of line-of-sight conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Çağkan Yapar , Ron Levie , Gitta Kutyniok , Giuseppe Caire

This study presents a background estimation for the Cubesats Applied for MEasuring and LOcalising Transients (CAMELOT), which is a proposed fleet of nanosatellites for the all-sky monitoring and timing based localization of gamma-ray…

This paper investigates the potential of non-terrestrial and terrestrial signals of opportunity (SOOP) for navigation applications. Non-terrestrial SOOP analysis employs modified Cram\`er-Rao lower bound (MCRLB) to establish a relationship…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-24 Francesco Zanirato , Francesco Ardizzon , Laura Crosara , Alessio Curzio , Luca Canzian , Stefano Tomasin , Nicola Laurenti

Navigation applications relying on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) are limited in indoor environments and GNSS-denied outdoor terrains such as dense urban or forests. In this paper, we present a novel accurate, robust and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Qin Shi , Xiaowei Cui , Wei Li , Yu Xia , Mingquan Lu

Sensors based on crystal defects, especially nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres in nanodiamond, can achieve detection of single magnetic moments. Here we show that this exquisite control can be utilized to entangle remote electronic spins for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Marcus Schaffry , Simon C. Benjamin , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

The global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) play a vital role in transport systems for accurate and consistent vehicle localization. However, GNSS observations can be distorted due to multipath effects and non-line-of-sight (NLOS)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Haoming Zhang , Zhanxin Wang , Heike Vallery

In modern radar systems, precise target localization using azimuth and velocity estimation is paramount. Traditional unbiased estimation methods have utilized gradient descent algorithms to reach the theoretical limits of the Cramer Rao…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Sandeep Gogineni , Bosung Kang , Muralidhar Rangaswamy

This paper presents an analysis of target localization accuracy, attainable by the use of MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) radar systems, configured with multiple transmit and receive sensors, widely distributed over a given area. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hana Godrich , Alexander M. Haimovich , Rick S. Blum