The paper GNSS Measurement Exclusion and Weighting with a Dual Polarized Antenna: The FANTASTIC project presented by Daniel Egea-Roca from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona – UAB, won the best paper award at the International Conference on Localization and GNSS – ICL-GNSS 2018 that took place in Guimaraes, Portugal. The paper details methods for the exploitation of a high-end dual-polarized antenna and reports the tests campaigns carried in various environment. The study behind the paper was carried on by UAB, Septentrio and Fraunhofer IIS.
Here a picture of the awards ceremony:
Here a screenshot of the first page of the paper’s presentation with all the authors:
An extract of the hot topics addressed this year at the ICL-GNSS conference:
Reliable navigation and positioning are becoming imperative in more and more applications for safety-critical purposes, public services and consumer products. A robust localization solution, which will be available continuously, is needed regardless of the specific environment, i.e., outdoors and indoors, and on different platforms such as stand-alone navigators and mobile devices. ICL-GNSS addresses the latest research on wireless and satellite-based positioning techniques to provide reliable and accurate position information with low latency. The emphasis is on the design of mass-market navigation receivers and related tools and methodologies.
The scope includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:
- Antennas and RF front-end for GNSS receivers
- Design, prototyping and testing of positioning devices
- Acquisition, tracking and navigation algorithms
- Detection and mitigation techniques for adverse propagation conditions
- Wireless and sensor-based localization
- GNSS applications for remote sensing, ionospheric sounding and space weather
- Precise timing for GNSS and terrestrial systems
- Security and privacy in joint communication and navigation systems
- Authentication and privacy aspects of positioning
- Spoofing countermeasures
- Cooperative and peer-to-peer positioning
- Positioning based on signals-of-opportunity
- Multi-GNSS receivers and emerging navigation satellite systems
- Indoor positioning and localisation in densely populated urban areas
- Hybrid NAV/COM positioning
- Cognitive positioning architectures
- Positioning for autonomous systems (robots, planes, land and marine vehicles)
- Crowd-sourced and swarm localisation
- Location-based mobility models, services and applications