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.
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. Qian Meng (Ph.D. NUAA)
Research areas: GNSS RAIM, Integrity, Sensor Safety
Dr. Meng is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Interdisciplinary Division of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Automation and a Ph.D. degree in Guidance, Navigation, and Control from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Centre of Transport Studies, Imperial College London in 2017. His current research interests focus on GNSS software-defined receiver, Integrity monitoring and Signal processing in autonomous driving.
Dr. Jiang Yue (Ph.D. NUST)
Research areas: Image processing, Sensor fusion, LiDAR
Dr. YUE received a B.S. and Ph.D. degree in electronic science and technology from Nanjing University of science and technology (NUST), China, 2008 and 2014, respectively. He is employed as a lecturer at State Key Laboratory of Transient Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2014. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Interdisciplinary Division of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. His research interests including stereo matching, LiDAR & image fusion, high-dimensional data denoising, and super-resolution.
Dr. Changhui Jiang (Ph.D. NUST)
Research areas: GNSS/INS integration, LiDAR
Dr. Jiang was born in Xinghua, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China, in 1992. He received a B.S. degree from the Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China and a Ph.D. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China in 2014 and 2019 respectively. He studied as a visiting Ph.D. student sponsored by China Scholarship Council in Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI) from 2017.12 to 2018.11. He had authored or co-authored more than 30 journal or conference papers in LiDAR, GNSS and Inertial Navigation System. He holds six Chinese patents in GNSS and Inertial Navigation System. His research interests including GNSS, LiDAR and Inertial Navigation System.
Ph.D. Students
Research areas: GNSS, LiDAR SLAM, 3DLA GNSS, Sensor Fusion, Autonomous Driving
Mr. Wen received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Automation from Beijing Information science and Technology University, China, in 2015 and a master’s degree in Mechanical and electronics in China Agricultural University, China, in 2017. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. He was a visiting student researcher at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in 2018. His research interests include GNSS positioning, SLAM, multi-sensor fusion for autonomous systems.
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Guohao Zhang
Research areas: 3DMA GNSS, Collaborative positioning, Sensor Fusion
Mr. Zhang received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Automation from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, in 2015. He is currently an M.Sc. student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research interests including GNSS localization, navigation, sensor fusion, and machine learning.
Xiwei Bai
Research areas: Visual SLAM, Computer Vision
Ms. 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 computer-aided GNSS positioning for autonomous vehicle localization and computer vision.
Research Assistant
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.
Bo Zhang
Research areas: LiDAR/Image Integration, object detection and recognition
Ms. Zhang received a B.S and MSc degree from Wuhan University, China 2014 and the University of Bristol, UK, 2018, respectively. Currently, she is a research assistant with the Interdisciplinary Division of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. Now, her research focuses on LIDAR & camera calibration and sensor fusion.
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.
Bo 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.
MSC Students
Weichang Xu
Research areas: Dynamic modelling, Model based navigation
Mr.XU obtained his BEng degree in Mechanical Design & Manufacturing and Their Automation from Guangzhou University. He is currently an M.Sc. student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research interests including vehicle control, vehicular dynamic model-aided localization.
Song Yang
Research areas: UWB indoor positioning, Sensor fusion
Mr. SONG received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Jinan, China, in 2017. He is currently an M.Sc. student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research interests including localization in autonomous driving based multi-sensor fusion(GNSS/INS/LiDAR).
HOI FUNG (IVAN) NG
Research areas: 3DMA GNSS, RTK
Mr. Ng received a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Air Transport Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 2018. His research interests including GNSS localization, navigation.
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.
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