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September 2023: “Dr. Todd E. Humphreys, known for his fundamental contributions to secure, precise and robust PNT and GNSS software-defined receivers (SDR), received this year’s Johannes Kepler Award. The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division recognized Dr. Humphreys with this prestigious honor, the highest it bestows, during the ION GNSS+ 2023 conference in Denver.” For …

2023 Kepler Award received by Dr. Todd E. Humphreys Read More »

September 2023: A paper written by the RNL’s Zach Clements titled “Dual-Satellite Geolocation of Terrestrial GNSS Jammers from Low Earth Orbit” got published in Inside GNSS. “In the past decade, there has been a sharp increase in GNSS outages due to deliberate GNSS jamming. Receivers in LEO are uniquely situated to detect, classify and geolocate …

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June 2023: RNL member Zach Clements, Todd Humphreys, and Patrick Ellis from Spire Global were awarded the Walter R. Fried Memorial Award for the best overall paper at the 2023 IEEE/ION PLANS conference. Their paper, titled “Dual-Satellite Geolocation of Terrestrial GNSS Jammers from Low Earth Orbit,” presents a comparison of a two-step geolocation method and …

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July 2023: A group of 6 students dubbed “DJI But Butter” have been working on improving the RNL’s game-engine by extending the Machine Games demos over the summer. The group, along with an RNL graduate student, took a trip to Houston’s NASA facility to get inspired and stave off summer boredom! During their visit, they …

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April 2023: “A vehicular pose estimation technique is presented that tightly couples multi-antenna carrier-phase differential GNSS (CDGNSS) with a low-cost MEMS inertial sensor and vehicle dynamic constraints. This work is the first to explore the use of consumer-grade inertial sensors for tightly coupled urban CDGNSS, and first to explore the tightly coupled combination of multi-antenna …

Low-Cost Inertial Aiding for Deep-Urban Tightly Coupled Multi-Antenna Precise GNSS Read More »

March 2023: “Todd Humphreys began studying electrical engineering at Utah State University with the intention of becoming a patent lawyer. His career path changed, however, thanks to a professor who told him he had the heart of an engineer. […] A third-generation Aggie, Humphreys completed his bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Utah …

Dr. Todd Humphreys named Distinguished Alumnus of the Year by Utah State University’s ECE Department Read More »

March 2023: A paper written by the RNL’s Zach Clements titled “Carrier-phase and IMU based GNSS Spoofing Detection for Ground Vehicles” got published in GPS World. The summary from GPS World is “we look at how carrier-phase measurements combined with those from an inertial measurement unit can guard against a deliberate attack on an automated …

GNSS Spoofing Detection: Guard against automated ground vehicle attacks Read More »

February 2023: Many reports from Ukraine support the fact that efforts by the country have been significantly aided by their use of Starlink’s services. Whether it is in civilian use, or military use, Starlink terminals and services are widely used. A specific area of interest is in drones, where reports from Ukraine claim “the country’s …

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January 2023: Starlink has ” became a transformative tool for modern warfare” as is evident in the current war in Ukraine where is it used in a variety of manners to aid in communication, intelligence and even military strategy support through algorithms made available to commanders. “Tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens” are also relying on …

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December 2022: According to Austin Business Journal, “Inno Under 25 is a recognition of the top founders, entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders under 25 in your local ecosystem. To highlight some of our youngest entrepreneurs and innovators, Inno compiles a list each year of promising and accomplished future leaders in the city’s startup scene.” RNL alumna …

RNL Member Hailey Nichols awarded an “Austin Inno Under 25” Read More »