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“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,

“Commercial drones expected to fly US skies in coming years, delivering pizza or monitoring power lines, would be dangerously vulnerable to hackers without a variety of potentially costly countermeasures to their GPS navigation systems, results of a federal study indicate.” Continue reading the Christian Science Monitor article that features an interview with Dr. Humphreys.

Radionavigation lab alum Dr. Zak Kassas will join the Electrical Engineering Department at The University of California, Riverside (UCR) in the Fall 2014 Quarter as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Kassas’ Ph.D. focused on studying a novel navigation paradigm termed collaborative opportunistic navigation (COpNav). COpNav aims to exploit the plenitude of ambient radio frequency signals of opportunity in the environment (e.g., cellular

RNL presented at the 2014 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, TX, which offers the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies.   On Friday, March 7, Dr. Humphreys and Jahshan Bhatti presented “Location Deception: Yacht vs. GPS Spoofer.”  Audio recording of the presentation is available on soundcloud.

“If you were watching Iranian state TV in early December 2011, you would have seen an unusual flying object paraded in front of viewers. Windowless, squat, with a pointed nose, its two wings made it the shape of a manta ray. The trophy on show was an RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone, a key weapon in