Research
Next Generation Position and Navigation Systems
Can we enable devices to find their position more accurately, more reliably and more efficiently, even in complex situations and environments?
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of many new services which rely on the ability to track the position of people and assets. While outdoor positioning systems, such as GPS and other satellite-based systems, have now become quite ubiquitous, indoor positioning systems are still suffering from a lack of standards and from the need to address a broad set of application domains, all of which with their particular requirements and usage assumptions.
To address these challenges, there is intensive research on new and more advanced positioning techniques, for both indoor and custom outdoor environments. These techniques explore a diverse set of approaches, including Wifi, GSM or 5G signals, sound or images captured by mobile phones, dead-reckoning or beacons.
Our Lab has an extensive research record in this area, with a substantial number of scientific publications, international research projects and active involvement in the various editions of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, a unique event entirely dedicated to indoor localisation, its applications and its development. We have been very active in developing novel positioning algorithms for cutting-edge indoor positioning systems. The goal is to uncover new approaches which can increase performance and unlock new paths for the widespread adoption of indoor positioning services to new application domains