Latest updates from the lab and its collaborators.
IPNL PhD student Liang Qian (Martin) spent two weeks at the ESA/JRC International Summer School on GNSS in Espoo, Finland, and shares his own account of the programme, the group project, and the people he met.
The Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering at PolyU and the Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI) are collaborating on a research initiative applying innovative technologies in elite windsurfing — integrating engineering, sensing technologies, and sports science to advance data-informed athlete monitoring and performance support.
Prof. Li-Ta Hsu has been invited as an ION Master Instructor for the 40th-anniversary Masters Short Course Program at ION GNSS+ 2026, delivering the lecture "Indoor Navigation as GNSS in Disguise" alongside GNSS pioneers including Bradford Parkinson.
Hongmin Zhang has completed a PhD in the Intelligent Positioning and Navigation Lab, with a thesis on advanced stochastic modeling for urban GNSS PPP-RTK aided by a 3D city model.
Xiao Xia has completed his PhD in the Intelligent Positioning and Navigation Lab, with a thesis on integrity-constrained robust estimation for GNSS positioning in urban scenarios.
Haosheng Xu has completed his PhD in the Intelligent Positioning and Navigation Lab, with a thesis on sky-visibility estimation from satellite signals for building-update detection.
The 1st Workshop on Robot Meets GNSS and Ranging for Seamless Autonomy — co-organized by Prof. Li-Ta Hsu — was held at IEEE ICRA 2026 in Vienna on 5 June 2026. The full-day workshop brought together the satellite-navigation and robotics communities for keynote talks, 19 paper presentations, a poster session, and an industry session, and closed as a clear success with a second edition already in view.
Prof. Li-Ta Hsu gave the opening technical talk at the 'Intelligent Fusion Positioning and Resilient PNT' Academic Forum at the CAS Innovation Academy of Precision Measurement Science and Technology in Wuhan on 24 April 2026. PolyU's IPNL fielded four speakers across the day: Prof. Hsu, Penggao Yan, Shiyu Bai, and Penghui Xu.
PolyU IPNL took part in the 2026 ION Pacific PNT meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. Prof. Li-Ta Hsu served as a session chair and speaker, and IPNL members presented their work, continuing the lab's multi-year engagement with the Institute of Navigation's Pacific PNT conference series.
Stairio — an autonomous staircase safety monitoring robot led by Prof. Li-Ta Hsu — received the Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury at the 51st International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva.
Prof. Li-Ta Hsu gave an invited workshop talk at IEEE ITSC 2025 — When Intelligent Vehicles Meets Urban: Integrity-Estimation Research — building on the lab's integrity-constrained factor graph optimization research line.
The Hong Kong UrbanNav dataset paper received the Most Cited Paper Award from the journal NAVIGATION.
PolyU IPNL hosted a joint research workshop with Honor (one of the major Chinese smartphone manufacturers) at PolyU on 29 September 2025, presenting the lab's GNSS, navigation, and AI research portfolio.
Prof. Li-Ta Hsu attended ION GNSS+ 2025 in Salt Lake City, contributed to a Satellite Navigation for Robotics panel discussion, then continued to California for a follow-up Google Research project meeting and a Physical AI / Robotics meetup.
Over 29–30 July 2025 in Singapore, Prof. Li-Ta Hsu gave an invited NTU seminar on super-resolution GPS receivers and joined the editors' dialogue at ICASSE 2025, where PhD student Penghui Xu also presented on AI-driven satellite navigation.
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