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Analysis of multi-constellation GNSS signal quality (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Richardson, T., Hill, C., Moore, T., & Toor, P. (2016). Analysis of multi-constellation GNSS signal quality.

The code pseudo-ranges and phase pseudo-ranges are affected by the systematic errors or biases and random noises. These errors can be classified into three groups, satellite related errors, propagation-medium related errors and receiver related error... Read More about Analysis of multi-constellation GNSS signal quality.

Detection of UWB ranging measurement quality for collaborative indoor positioning (2016)
Journal Article
Jing, H., Bonenberg, L. K., Pinchin, J., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (in press). Detection of UWB ranging measurement quality for collaborative indoor positioning. Journal of Location Based Services, 9(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/17489725.2015.1120359

Wireless communication signals have become popular alternatives for indoor positioning and navigation due to lack of navigation satellite signals in such environments. The signal characteristics determine the method used for positioning as well as th... Read More about Detection of UWB ranging measurement quality for collaborative indoor positioning.

Indoor location based services market drivers and challenges (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Basiri, A., Moore, T., Hill, C., & Bhatia, P. (2015). Indoor location based services market drivers and challenges.

Indoor Location Based Service (LBS) applications, such as indoor navigation, have not yet found a prominent position in the market as it deals with many challenges, both technical and non-technical. They include indoor positioning, availability and u... Read More about Indoor location based services market drivers and challenges.

On the impact of intra-system interference for ranging and positioning with Bluetooth low energy (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Figueiredo e Silva, P., Basiri, A., Lohan, E. S., Pinchin, J., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (2015). On the impact of intra-system interference for ranging and positioning with Bluetooth low energy. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking in GPS-less Environments - MELT '15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2830571.2830573

This paper focuses on the study of intra-system interference for ranging and positioning applications using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). While BLE tries to avoid interference with other protocols in the same frequency band, such as Wi-Fi, the intra-sy... Read More about On the impact of intra-system interference for ranging and positioning with Bluetooth low energy.

Wi-Fi fingerprinting based on collaborative confidence level training (2015)
Journal Article
Jing, H., Pinchin, J., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (2016). Wi-Fi fingerprinting based on collaborative confidence level training. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 30, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2015.10.005

Wi-Fi fingerprinting has been a popular indoor positioning technique with the advantage that infrastructures are readily available in most urban areas. However wireless signals are prone to fluctuation and noise, introducing errors in the final posit... Read More about Wi-Fi fingerprinting based on collaborative confidence level training.

An adaptive weighting based on modified DOP for collaborative indoor positioning (2015)
Journal Article
Jing, H., Pinchin, J., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (2016). An adaptive weighting based on modified DOP for collaborative indoor positioning. Journal of Navigation, 69(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S037346331500065X

Indoor localisation has always been a challenging problem due to poor Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) availability in such environments. While inertial measurement sensors have become popular solutions for indoor positioning, they suffer la... Read More about An adaptive weighting based on modified DOP for collaborative indoor positioning.

Investigation of GNSS integrity augmentation synergies with unmanned aircraft sense-and-avoid systems (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Sabatini, R., Moore, T., Hill, C., & Ramasamy, S. (2015). Investigation of GNSS integrity augmentation synergies with unmanned aircraft sense-and-avoid systems. In SAE Technical Paper Series. https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-2456

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) can support the development of low-cost and high performance navigation and guidance architectures for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and, in conjunction with suitable data link technologies, the provision... Read More about Investigation of GNSS integrity augmentation synergies with unmanned aircraft sense-and-avoid systems.

Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Basiri, A., Peltola, P., Figueiredo e Silva, P., Lohan, E. S., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2015). Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services. In 2015 International Conference on Location and GNSS (ICL-GNSS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2015.7217157

Indoor positioning is one of the biggest challenges of many Location Based Services (LBS), especially if the target users are pedestrians, who spend most of their time in roofed areas such as houses, offices, airports, shopping centres and in general... Read More about Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services.

Evaluating GNSS integrity augmentation techniques for UAS sense-and-avoid (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Sabatini, R., Moore, T., Hill, C., & Ramasamy, S. (in press). Evaluating GNSS integrity augmentation techniques for UAS sense-and-avoid.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) far exceed the navigation accuracies provided by other state-of-the-art sensors for aerospace applications. This can support the development of low-cost and high performance navigation and guidance architect... Read More about Evaluating GNSS integrity augmentation techniques for UAS sense-and-avoid.

Assessing avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation performance in UAS mission- and safety-critical tasks (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Sabatini, R., Moore, T., Hill, C., & Ramasamy, S. (2015). Assessing avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation performance in UAS mission- and safety-critical tasks. In 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2015.7152347

The integration of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) integrity augmentation functionalities in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) has the potential to provide an integrity-augmented Sense-and-Avoid (SAA) solution suitable for cooperative and non-c... Read More about Assessing avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation performance in UAS mission- and safety-critical tasks.

Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation performance in a jamming environment (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Sabatini, R., Moore, T., Hill, C., & Subramanian, R. (2015). Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation performance in a jamming environment.

Intentional and unintentional radiofrequency interference (i.e., jamming) can result in degraded navigation accuracy or complete loss of the GNSS signal tracking. Jammers can be classified into three broad categories: Narrowband Jammers (NBJ), Spread... Read More about Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation performance in a jamming environment.

Assessing GNSS integrity augmentation techniques in UAV sense-and-avoid architectures (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Sabatini, R., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2015). Assessing GNSS integrity augmentation techniques in UAV sense-and-avoid architectures.

The integration of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) integrity augmentation functionalities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Sense-and-Avoid (SAA) architectures has the potential to provide an integrity-augmented SAA solutiThe integration of... Read More about Assessing GNSS integrity augmentation techniques in UAV sense-and-avoid architectures.

Challenges of Location-Based Services market analysis: current market description (2015)
Book Chapter
Basiri, A., Moore, T., Hill, C., & Bhatia, P. (2015). Challenges of Location-Based Services market analysis: current market description. In G. Gartner, & H. Huang (Eds.), Progress in Location-Based Services 2014. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11879-6_19

Location-Based Services (LBS) have a huge and rapidly growing market, however LBS market reports do not fully agree about the current market size, the exact number of LBS users, market growth rate, etc. Different market study reports describe LBS mar... Read More about Challenges of Location-Based Services market analysis: current market description.

GNSS avionics-based integrity augmentation for RPAS detect-and-avoid applications (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Sabatini, R., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2014). GNSS avionics-based integrity augmentation for RPAS detect-and-avoid applications.

Taking the move from our recent research on GNSS Avionics Based Integrity Augmentation (ABIA), this article investigates the synergies of ABIA with a novel Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) architecture for Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS). Based on simu... Read More about GNSS avionics-based integrity augmentation for RPAS detect-and-avoid applications.

Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation for unmanned aerial systems sense-and-avoid (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Sabatini, R., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2014). Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation for unmanned aerial systems sense-and-avoid.

This paper investigates the synergies between a GNSS Avionics Based Integrity Augmentation (ABIA) system and a novel Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Sense-and-Avoid (SAA) architecture for cooperative and non-cooperative scenarios. The integration of ABI... Read More about Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation for unmanned aerial systems sense-and-avoid.

The potential of electromyography to aid personal navigation (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Pinchin, J., Smith, G., Hill, C., Moore, T., & Loram, I. (2014). The potential of electromyography to aid personal navigation.

This paper reports on research to explore the potential for using electromyography (EMG) measurements in pedestrian navigation. The aim is to investigate whether the relationship between human motion and the activity of skeletal muscles in the leg mi... Read More about The potential of electromyography to aid personal navigation.

Collaborative Wi-Fi fingerprint training for indoor positioning (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Jing, H., Pinchin, J., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (2014). Collaborative Wi-Fi fingerprint training for indoor positioning.

As the scope of location-based applications and services further reach into our everyday lives, the demand for more robust and reliable positioning becomes ever more important. However indoor positioning has never been a fully resolved issue due to i... Read More about Collaborative Wi-Fi fingerprint training for indoor positioning.

Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation (2014)
Book Chapter
Basiri, A., Amirian, P., Winstanley, A., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2014). Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation. In C. Liu (Ed.), Principle and application progress in location-based services (343-355). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04028-8_23

Location-based services use location as contextual data to exclude irrelevant services from users. However almost all positioning technologies can only provide a location with a certain degree of accuracy. It is necessary to have a framework which ca... Read More about Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation.

On magnetometer heading updates for inertial pedestrian navigation system (2014)
Journal Article
Abdulrahim, K., Seman, K., Othman, M., Md Shuib, F. M., Moore, T., Hide, C., & Hill, C. (2014). On magnetometer heading updates for inertial pedestrian navigation system. Giroskopiya I Navigatsiya / Gyroscopy and Navigation, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.1134/S207510871403002X

A magnetometer is often used to aid heading estimation of a low-cost Inertial Pedestrian Navigation System (IPNS) without which the latter will not be able to accurately estimate heading for more than a few seconds, even with the help of Zero Velocit... Read More about On magnetometer heading updates for inertial pedestrian navigation system.

Overview of positioning technologies from fitness-to-purpose point of view (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Basiri, A., Lohan, E. S., Figueiredo e Silva, P., Peltola, P., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (2014). Overview of positioning technologies from fitness-to-purpose point of view. In International Conference on Localization and GNSS 2014 (ICL-GNSS 2014). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2014.6934176

Even though Location Based Services (LBSs) are being more and more widely-used and this shows a promising future, there are still many challenges to deal with, such as privacy, reliability, accuracy, cost of service, power consumption and availabilit... Read More about Overview of positioning technologies from fitness-to-purpose point of view.