June 2020: Ships thousands of miles at sea are mysteriously reporting GPS positions near Point Reyes, which is off the coast of San Francisco. Dr. Todd Humphreys believes that this is part of the worldwide maritime spoofing that he has been studying over the past few years. “I think we’re witnessing […] the emergence of commodity off-the-shelf spoofing […]
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June 2020: Maritime GPS spoofing is a worldwide puzzle, and researchers have yet to uncover the motivation behind the spoofing. Until recently, spoofing signals were always broadcast over large areas to affect many ships. It now seems that spoofing has become more targeted; sometimes only one ship is affected. This suggests that new, low-power spoofing
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June 2020: Dr. Todd Humphreys was invited to the Hexagon | NovAtel® offices in March 2020 to give a presentation on the Radionavigation Lab’s recent research. Read the blog post on their website here. In his presentation, titled “All-Weather Localization and Positioning for Self-Driving Cars,” Dr. Humphreys covers material from two of the Lab’s recent papers: Deep Urban Unaided Precise
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June 2020: Lakshay Narula (center), Peter Iannucci (right), and Todd Humphreys (left) were awarded the Walter R. Fried Memorial Award for the best overall paper at the 2020 IEEE/ION PLANSx conference. Their paper, titled “Automotive-Radar-Based 50-cm Urban Positioning,” presents a novel method of radar localization for autonomous vehicles in urban environments. Congratulations to the authors!
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May 2020: As part of his recent paper for the IEEE/ION PLANSx conference, Lakshay Narula published an extensive dataset for urban positioning, called TEX-CUP: The University of Texas Challenge for Urban Positioning. “Mass-market precise GNSS positioning is being researched now more than ever”, Lakshay says. “To make progress as a research community, we need to evaluate new techniques on
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April 2020: This article from GPS World reports on GPS spoofing discovered in Iran. It references some of Dr. Humphreys’s early work in GPS spoofing.
March 2020: Admiration for GPS runs high among RNL alumni, as witnessed by K. Wesson’s new license plate!
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February 2020: The Radionavigation Lab’s work in GNSS interference detection was featured on the cover of Inside GNSS, a magazine dedicated to global navigation systems. Click here to read the article from Inside GNSS. In 2017, the Radionavigation lab placed a custom software defined receiver onboard the International Space Station as part of a larger effort
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February 2020: The Institute of Navigation presented awards at their International Technical Meeting in January. These recipients are affiliated with the Radionavigation Laboratory: Dr. Zaher (Zak) Kassas (left) is a former member of the lab and current professor at the University of California, Irvine. He won the 2019 Institute of Navigation Thurlow Award “for foundational work in
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February 2020: The Army Futures Command (AFC) has partnered with the University of Texas at Austin to develop robots to assist with dangerous tasks on the battlefield. These robots will assist with non-combat jobs such as minesweeping and obstacle removal. This partnership has enabled the construction of a new robotics center at UT Austin. “It’s
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