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Austin, TX — Ken Pesyna, Robert Heath, and Todd Humphreys authored the cover story of GPS World on centimeter-accurate positioning using smartphone GNSS antennas in the February 2015 edition. “The smartphone antenna’s poor multipath suppression and irregular gain pattern result in large time-correlated phase errors that significantly increase the time to integer ambiguity resolution as compared […]

“The Institute of Navigation (ION) has selected Todd Humphreys, assistant professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at the Cockrell School of Engineering, to receive the Colonel Thomas L. Thurlow Award. Humphreys was selected ‘for contributions that enhance radionavigation security and robustness in the face of intentional spoofing and natural interference.’ ION presented Humphreys with

“The Secret Service said it believes a hobbyist accidentally crashed a drone onto the White House grounds early Monday, an incident that prompted a lockdown and delivered a wake-up call over the potential terrorism threat of unmanned aircraft. “The person flying the 2-foot helicopter that crashed called the Secret Service after the incident was widely

“The man considered to be one of the biggest influences in the transportation world is in Austin this week. Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk addressed a crowd Thursday at the 10th Annual Texas Transportation Forum. Musk, who has overseen product development and design for all of Tesla’s electric cars, also is the creative spark

“In the summer of 2012, a small robotic helicopter, painted Texas Longhorns orange and white, climbed into the air above the team’s empty football field in Austin. Then the device suddenly plummeted toward the grass, its controller overridden by a team of university- sanctioned hackers. A few days later, in the White Sands Missile Range

Dr. Humphreys lectured on “Drones: Myths, Facts, Hacks, and The Future” on Friday, November 21, 2014 as the 93rd installment of the Hot Science Cool Talks outreach series hosted by UT’s Environmental Science Institute. To view the recorded lecture visit the ESI website and click the “View Webcast” button.

“The drone revolution isn’t coming—it’s already here. Can UT expertise help us navigate the future? “The stadium was buzzing. It was a balmy day in late August and more than 93,000 fans were finally getting to see the topic of endless hype for themselves. Thousands of articles had been written, teeth had been gnashed, hands

A collaboration between the UT Radionavigation Lab, Cornell, and the White Rose of Drachs, is reported in the GPS World magazine.   “A new method detects spoofing attacks that are resistant to standard RAIM technique and can sense an attack in a fraction of a second without external aiding. The signal-in-space properties used to detect spoofing

Before March 2013, the members of the UT Austin Radionavigation Lab and the Cornell GPS Lab had never heard of the superyacht called the White Rose of Drachs… They did, however, know something relevant to superyachts and other high-value maritime and aviation assets: how to spoof their GNSS navigation systems and how to detect spoofing attacks…

Norddeutscher Rundfunk (North German Broadcasting), a German public television service, produced the 44-minute documentary film “Im Visier der Hacker – Wie gefährlich wird das Netz?”  The film, whose title translates to “Targeted by the hackers: how dangerous is the power?,” features interviews with Dr. Humphreys and Daniel Shepard on GPS spoofing.  The film is in German,