Accurate and Reliable Positioning for Everyone, Everything, Everywhere and Anytime
Director of IPNL: Dr. Li-Ta Hsu
Director of IPNL: Dr. Li-Ta Hsu
Area of Specialization:
GNSS (GPS, Beidou, GLONASS, Galileo, and QZSS) Positioning, Navigation and Guidance, Sensors Integration, Autonomous Driving, UAV, Indoor Positioning, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Signal Processing, 3D Mapping, and Modern Avionics.
Education:
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Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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M.S.E., Aeronautics and Astronautics, the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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B.E., Aeronautics and Astronautics, the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
ORCID: 0000-0002-0352-741X
AUTHOR ID (SCOPUS): 35219760300
RESEARCHER ID (WOS): I-9078-2014
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Dr. Hsu received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. He was a Visiting Researcher with the Faculty of Engineering, University College London (UCL) and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMSAT), in 2012 and 2013, respectively. In 2013, he won a Student Paper Award and two Best Presentation Awards from the Institute of Navigation (ION). He was selected as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and worked from 2014 to 2016. He is an Associate Fellow in the Royal Institute of Navigation. Dr. Hsu currently is members of ION and IEEE and serves as a member of the editorial board and reviewer in professional journals related to GNSS.
Dr. Weisong Wen
Associate Director of IPNL, Research Assistant Professor in AAE, PolyU
Short bio:
Dr. Wen received the B.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Beijing Information Science and Technology University (BISTU), Beijing, China, in 2015, and the M.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the China Agricultural University, in 2017. After that, he received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), in 2020. He was also a visiting Ph.D. student with the Faculty of Engineering, University California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in 2018. In 2020, he won the Best Presentation Award from the Institute of Navigation (ION), and the First Prize in Hong Kong Section in Qianhai-Guangdong-Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, 2019. Before joining PolyU as a Research Assistant Professor, he was a senior research fellow at AAE of PolyU.
His mission and dedication are to develop cutting-edge, low-cost, and accurate positioning solutions for systems (autonomous vehicles, UAVs, smartphones, etc) with navigation requirements that can intelligently operate in a complex and diverse environment with sensing capability. His current research interests include 1) low-cost SLAM, GNSS, and deeply complementary multi-sensor integration-based positioning in complex scenarios. Mapping and localization for city-scale reconstruction (2) State estimation algorithm with non-Gaussian sensor noise and unknown outliers, optimization with highly non-convex surfaces. 3) Multiple agents collaborative positioning, cloud positioning.
Area of Specialization:
Autonomous Driving, Robotics, Mapping, and Localization, Sensor Fusion, GNSS, SLAM
Research Goal: Solving the challenging positioning and navigation problem in challenging scenarios, such as urban canyons, dense traffic roads.
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Dr. Bing X (Ph.D. NUST)
Research areas: GNSS Signal Processing, Vector tracking, Multipath Mitigation
Dr. Xu received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Network Engineering and Navigation Guidance and Control from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, in 2012 and 2018, respectively. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with The Interdisciplinary Division of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research areas include signal processing in software-defined GNSS receivers and algorithm designing for GNSS/INS systems.
Dr. Yiran Luo (Ph.D. BIT)
Research areas: GNSS signal processing, GNSS software-defined radio (SDR) design, Localization
Dr. Yiran Luo received the B.S. degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology from Sichuan University, China, in 2014, and the joint Ph.D. degree in Geomatics Engineering from University of Calgary, Canada, and in Information and Communication Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2020. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher with the Division of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include GNSS signal processing, GNSS software-defined radio (SDR) design, and navigation and localization in harsh environments. She was a recipient of the Best Paper Award (the highest honor) for China Satellite Navigation Conference, in 2017.
Ph.D. Students
Guohao Zhang
Research areas: 3DMA GNSS, Collaborative positioning, Sensor Fusion
Guohao Zhang received the bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and automation from University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, in 2015. He received the master's degree in mechanical engineering and currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests including GNSS urban localization, collaborative positioning and multi-sensor integrated navigation.
Xiwei Bai
Research areas: Visual SLAM, Visual-aided GNSS positioning
Xiwei Bai received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Automation from Beijing Information science and Technology University., China, in 2016 and the master’s degree in Mechanical and electronics in China Agricultural University, China, in 2018. Her research interests including visual SLAM and Visual-aided GNSS positioning for autonomous vehicle localization.
Feng Huang
Research areas: Localization, Sensor Fusion, Autonomous System
HUANG Feng received his Bachelor’s degree from Shenzhen University in Automation in 2014 and MSc in Electronic Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2016. He has 3 years of working experience in robotics. His research interests including localization and sensor-fusion for autonomous driving.
Haosheng Xu
Research areas: GNSS positioning, Context Awareness
Mr Xu received a bachelor degree in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering from Jilin University (JLU), China, in 2016. He is currently an M.Sc. student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research interests including in deep learning-based GNSS localization, navigation and machine learning.
HOI FUNG (IVAN) NG
Research areas: 3DMA GNSS, RTK
Mr Ng received the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Air Transport Engineering and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in 2018 and 2021, respectively. His research interests include the 3D mapping-aided GNSS localization and navigation.
Research Assistant
Jiachen Zhang
Research areas: Localization, Sensor Fusion, Autonomous System
ZHANG Jiachen received her Bachelor’s degree from Tianjin University in Information Engineering in 2016 and is currently an enrolled, full-time graduate student at Tianjin University, majoring in Optical Engineering. She is working as a research assistant in the Intelligent Positioning and Navigation Laboratory. Her research interests including localization and sensor-fusion for autonomous driving.
LOOKING FOR
MSC Students
Qiushen Liao
Research areas: Pedestrian Dead Reckoning
Mr.Liao obtained his bachelor degree in Mechanical Design & Manufacturing and Automation from Guangdong University of Technology. He is a Msc. student at the Mechanical Engineering department of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interest is Pedestrian Dead Reckoning.
Yihan Zhong
Zhuoyuan Liu
Research areas: Multi-sensor fusion
Mr. Liu received his bachelor degree in School of Mechatronics Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China, in 2015. He is currently a M.Sc. student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research interests include deep learning-based multi-sensor fusion.
Research areas: LiDAR SLAM, Map Matching
ZHONG Yi Han obtained bachelor degree in process equipment and control engineering from Guangxi University in 2020. He is currently an MSC student of Mechanical Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests including LiDAR SLAM( solid-state LiDAR), Map Matching for Autonomous Driving Localization.
MPhil Students
HIU YI (QUEENIE) HO
Research areas: Visual Slam, Sensor Fusion, Autonomous Driving
Queenie received a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Air Transport Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 2021. Her research interests include visual localization and navigation and autonomous driving.
YAN TUNG (NIKKIE) LEUNG
Research areas: Machine Learning, Autonomous Driving
Nikkie received a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Air Transport Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 2021. Her research interests include positioning and navigation and autonomous driving.
Visiting Students
Feifei Song
Ms Song is a visiting MSC student from Central South University. Her research interests including computer vision, object detection, image processing.
LOOKING FOR VISITING STUDENTS
Alumni
QIONGQIONG JIA - ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN CIVIL AVIATION UNIVERSITY OF CHINA
Research Associate in IPNL (2018-2019)
DABIN XUE – PHD STUDENT IN LSGI POLYU