Advances in Intelligent Positioning and Navigation for Smart Environments
A special issue of Eng (ISSN 2673-4117).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 160
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Industry 4.0; indoor positioning and navigation; vehicle localization; mobile computing; smart devices
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1. Department of Engineering, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
2. ALGORITMI Research Center, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal
Interests: mobile computing; positioning and navigation; computer vision/perception and machine learning; vehicle navigation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on positioning and navigation technologies for emerging smart environments, where seamless outdoor–indoor localization is vital for autonomous systems, smart cities, and Industry 4.0. It aims to bridge GNSS-based outdoor positioning with robust indoor solutions, leveraging 5G/Beyond 5G, millimeter-wave communications, and advanced sensor fusion to achieve high-accuracy performance, including in GPS-denied scenarios.
Mature indoor positioning methods—such as UWB, BLE, WiFi fingerprinting, and Visible Light Positioning—now enable real-time services in smart factories, healthcare, logistics, and robotic systems. This Special Issue welcomes research on unified indoor–outdoor positioning paradigms, sensor fusion with GNSS, IMU, LiDAR, and visual odometry, as well as the use of machine learning and AI to improve accuracy and robustness in multipath environments.
Key topics include hybrid architectures, IoT and edge computing for location services, cooperative positioning, privacy-preserving localization, and applications in autonomous vehicles, smart infrastructure, and industrial automation. Contributions may address challenges such as non-line-of-sight propagation, dynamic environments, seamless indoor–outdoor positioning, 5G positioning, scalability for massive IoT, latency in safety-critical scenarios, and security in networked positioning systems.
Dr. Ivo Silva
Dr. Cristiano Pendão
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart cities and intelligent urban environments
- industry 4.0 and connected smart factories
- GNSS/GPS and satellite-based positioning
- 5G positioning and wireless localization
- indoor positioning systems (ultra-wideband (UWB), WiFi-based localization and fingerprinting, and BLE, etc.)
- intelligent transportation systems and autonomous vehicles
- internet of things (IoT)
- sensor fusion and multi-modal positioning (GNSS/IMU/LiDAR/visual, etc.)
- real-time navigation and location intelligence
- SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping)
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