Next Generation MEMS-Based Navigation—Systems and Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2015) | Viewed by 113703
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Interests: intelligent and autonomous systems; navigation & positioning technologies; satellite technologies; multi-sensor systems; wireless positioning; vehicles & transportation systems; driverless cars; technology development; applications
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Interests: Wireless location and navigation; global navigation satellite systems (GNSS); inertial navigation systems (INS); multi-sensor fusion involving GNSS, INS, Radar, LiDAR, and vision systems for positioning and navigation; optimal estimation; artificial intelligence, positioning in challenging and denied GNSS environments including urban areas, indoors and under jamming conditions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
The promise of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology to the navigation community has been germinating over the last decade, and current advances bring the field to the very cusp of fruition. In fact, MEMS inertial sensors and systems have become indispensable to the future of navigation. Also, navigation itself has become much broader than just providing a solution to the question “Where am I?” or “How to go there?” It has moved into new areas such as games, geolocation, mobile mapping, virtual reality, tracking health monitoring and context awareness; all of which have been enabled by MEMS technology. Their small size, low power and weight, and low cost have led to increased use, new applications, increased mobility, increased integration (hence better performance) and extended operation. When integrated with global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and other sensors, the integrated system enhance the performance in denied GNSS environments where the satellite signal is either totally blocked or attenuated. The combination of the two systems exploits their complementary characteristics. These integrated navigation technologies and methods have become indispensable in many applications like car navigation, human motion modeling, first-responder personal navigation, UAV, and portable navigation.
This special issue targets original research that addresses the development of next-generation MEMS-based navigation technologies which integrate MEMS sensors and systems to increase the accuracy, reliability and availability of the navigation solution for current and future navigation applications. The special issue invites original research papers addressing, but not limited to:
- Advances in MEMS inertial sensors and systems;
- Applications and integration with other sensors (e.g. GNSS, WiFi, barometers, magnetometers, cameras, LiDAR, odometers, etc.);
- Advanced estimation algorithms for MEMS integrated navigation applications;
- Design, calibration, modeling, advanced processing techniques and performance characteristics of different technologies for MEMS Sensors;
- Navigation in indoor, urban or GNSS-degraded environments;
- Mapping and LBS applications with MEMS sensors.
Prof. Dr. Naser El-Sheimy
Prof. Dr. Aboelmagd Noureldin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- MEMS
- integrated navigation systems
- INS, GNSS, LiDAR
- vision cameras
- radar systems
- data fusion
- Kalman Filtering
- artificial intelligence
- particle filtering
- smartphone sensors
- portable navigation
- car navigation
- UGV and UAV
- POS/NAV
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