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  • Open Access
21 Citations
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12 October 2016

In order to improve the performance of an inertial navigation system, many aiding sensors can be used. Among these aiding sensors, a vision sensor is of particular note due to its benefits in terms of weight, cost, and power consumption. This paper p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,324 Views
14 Pages

INS/Vision Integrated Navigation System Based on a Navigation Cell Model of the Hippocampus

  • Xiaojie Liu,
  • Xiaoting Guo,
  • Donghua Zhao,
  • Chong Shen,
  • Chenguang Wang,
  • Jie Li,
  • Jun Tang and
  • Jun Liu

10 January 2019

Considering the error accumulation problem of a pure inertial navigation system (INS) under the condition of satellite signal outages, this paper proposes a brain-like navigation method based on a navigation cell model of the hippocampus to improve t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,461 Views
24 Pages

27 May 2025

To address the challenges of discontinuous heterogeneous image matching, significant matching errors in specific regions, and poor real-time performance in GNSS-denied environments for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), we propose an integrated navigat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,461 Views
16 Pages

Practice testing (i.e., retrieval practice) has been established as a powerful learning strategy by comparison with many others, such as restudying. The current study explores whether practice testing can boost learning of map routes. Experiment 1 de...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,407 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Radio Integrated Navigation System M&S Software Design for GNSS Backup under Navigation Warfare

  • Heyone Kim,
  • Junhak Lee,
  • Sang Heon Oh,
  • Hyoungmin So and
  • Dong-Hwan Hwang

To avoid degradation of navigation performance in the navigation warfare environment, the multi-radio integrated navigation system can be used, in which all available radio navigation systems are integrated to back up Global Navigation Satellite Syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,043 Views
18 Pages

30 January 2025

This paper develops a novel virtual navigation route generation scheme for an augmented reality (AR) car navigation system based on the generative adversarial network–long short-term memory network (GAN–LSTM) framework with an integrated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,955 Views
18 Pages

Landmark-Based Inertial Navigation System for Autonomous Navigation of Missile Platform

  • Donghui Lyu,
  • Jiongqi Wang,
  • Zhangming He,
  • Yuyun Chen and
  • Bowen Hou

29 May 2020

As a new information provider of autonomous navigation, the on-orbit landmark observation offers a new means to improve the accuracy of autonomous positioning and attitude determination. A novel autonomous navigation method based on the landmark obse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,598 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2024

With the research on unmanned ships conducted by the International Maritime Organization, the European Union and China, the navigation risk of unmanned ships has become a hot topic around the world. Based on the research and development history and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,284 Views
25 Pages

Integrating Cosmic Microwave Background Readings with Celestial Navigation to Enhance Deep Space Navigation

  • Pedro Kukulka de Albuquerque,
  • Willer Gomes dos Santos,
  • Paulo Costa and
  • Alexandre Barreto

3 June 2024

This research unveils a cutting-edge navigation system for deep space missions that utilizes cosmic microwave background (CMB) sensor readings to enhance spacecraft positioning and velocity estimation accuracy significantly. By exploiting the Doppler...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,044 Views
19 Pages

Global Navigation Satellite System Spoofing Detection in Inertial Satellite Navigation Systems

  • Maksim Zharkov,
  • Konstantin Veremeenko,
  • Ivan Kuznetsov and
  • Andrei Pronkin

16 December 2023

The susceptibility of global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) to interference significantly limits the possibility of their use. From the standpoint of possible consequences, the most dangerous interference is the so-called spoofing. Simultaneous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,320 Views
14 Pages

26 October 2020

The global maritime digitalization reflects on navigation and paperless vessels with Paper Navigational Charts (PNC) nowadays superseded by Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS). Considering the system implementation and its accepta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,867 Views
11 Pages

Navigation bronchoscopy is an emerging technique used to evaluate pulmonary lesions. Using Veran’s SPiN electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) and Archimedes virtual bronchoscopy navigation (VBN), this study aimed to compare the accuracy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,509 Views
22 Pages

Satellite Navigation of a Lunar Rover with Sensor Fusion for High-Accuracy Navigation

  • Marco Sabatini,
  • Giovanni B. Palmerini,
  • Filippo Rodriguez,
  • Riccardo Petix,
  • Gabriele Lambiase and
  • Pietro Pacchiarotti

The Moon has become the focus of renewed interest for numerous space agencies and private companies worldwide. In the coming years, various scientific and commercial missions are planned, with a particular emphasis on exploring the South Pole. These...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
17,965 Views
34 Pages

22 August 2023

Wayfinding is important for everyone on a university campus to understand where they are and get to where they want to go to attend a meeting or a class. This study explores the dynamics of mobile navigation apps and the spatial ability skills of ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,959 Views
21 Pages

19 August 2014

More and more Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) have been developed and are in operation. Before integrating information on various GNSSs, the differences between the various systems must be studied first. This research focuses on analyzing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,363 Views
14 Pages

Enhancing Cancer Patient Navigation: Lessons from an Evaluation of Navigation Services in Alberta, Canada

  • Linda Watson,
  • Se’era May Anstruther,
  • Claire Link,
  • Siwei Qi,
  • Kathryn Burrows,
  • Michelle Lack,
  • Krista Rawson and
  • Andrea DeIure

Cancer patient navigation has emerged as a patient-centric intervention enabling equitable cancer care, by mitigating barriers patients encounter throughout their cancer journey. Cancer Care Alberta (CCA) implemented a professional navigation model o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,650 Views
19 Pages

Navigation Safety on Shipping Routes during Construction

  • Vytautas Paulauskas,
  • Ludmiła Filina-Dawidowicz and
  • Donatas Paulauskas

26 July 2023

Construction work or other maintenance and repair activities in navigational channels are crucial to ensure and improve ships’ movement on the selected routes. However, during the performance of these works, the ships’ navigation along th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,668 Views
14 Pages

6 August 2024

During civil aviation flights, the aircraft needs to accurately monitor the real-time navigation capability and determine whether the onboard navigation system performance meets the required navigation performance (RNP). The airborne flight managemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,357 Views
16 Pages

9 August 2021

Aiming to improve the positioning accuracy of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm under different scenarios, a two-case navigation scheme is proposed and simulated. First, when the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is available, the inerti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,764 Views
24 Pages

Accurate and reliable pedestrian positioning service is essential for providing Indoor Location-Based Services (ILBSs). Zero-Velocity Update (ZUPT)-aided Strapdown Inertial Navigation System (SINS) based on foot-mounted wearable Inertial Measurement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,061 Views
20 Pages

Augmented Reality to Compensate for Navigation Inaccuracies

  • Miriam H. A. Bopp,
  • Felix Corr,
  • Benjamin Saß,
  • Mirza Pojskic,
  • André Kemmling and
  • Christopher Nimsky

7 December 2022

This study aims to report on the capability of microscope-based augmented reality (AR) to evaluate registration and navigation accuracy with extracranial and intracranial landmarks and to elaborate on its opportunities and obstacles in compensation f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,389 Views
25 Pages

Generating Comfortable Navigable Space for 3D Indoor Navigation Considering Users’ Dimensions

  • Wenjie Zhen,
  • Lin Yang,
  • Mei-Po Kwan,
  • Zejun Zuo,
  • Haoyue Qian and
  • Shunping Zhou

2 September 2020

Most existing indoor navigation methods implicitly treat indoor users as ideal points. However, the ignorance of individual 3D indoor space needs may result in that navigation users do not have enough space or comfortable space to move in a real situ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
718 Views
31 Pages

10 December 2025

Throughout the history of civil aviation, radio navigation aids have played a crucial role in ensuring the safety and continuity of air transportation. Although the development of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) over the past half-century...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,503 Views
15 Pages

High-Speed Train Tunnel Navigation Method Based on Integrated MIMU/ODO/MC Navigation

  • Zhenqian Sun,
  • Kanghua Tang,
  • Xueying Wang,
  • Meiping Wu and
  • Yan Guo

19 April 2021

When a high-speed train is running in a tunnel, the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal is completely lost. Relying only on the inertial navigation system (INS) composed of Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS) devices leads to large na...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,056 Views
18 Pages

26 August 2021

The navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles is a major scientific and technological challenge. The principal difficulty is the opacity of the water media for usual types of radiation except for the acoustic waves. Thus, an acoustic transducer (a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,287 Views
20 Pages

SINS/Landmark Integrated Navigation Based on Landmark Attitude Determination

  • Shuqing Xu,
  • Haiyin Zhou,
  • Jiongqi Wang,
  • Zhangming He and
  • Dayi Wang

1 July 2019

Based on the situation that the traditional SINS (strapdown inertial navigation system)/CNS (celestial navigation system) integrated navigation system fails to realize all-day and all-weather navigation, this paper proposes a SINS/Landmark integrated...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,569 Views
25 Pages

Acoustic Sensors for Air and Surface Navigation Applications

  • Rohan Kapoor,
  • Subramanian Ramasamy,
  • Alessandro Gardi,
  • Ron Van Schyndel and
  • Roberto Sabatini

7 February 2018

This paper presents the state-of-the-art and reviews the state-of-research of acoustic sensors used for a variety of navigation and guidance applications on air and surface vehicles. In particular, this paper focuses on echolocation, which is widely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,115 Views
18 Pages

22 November 2022

The robotic navigation task is to find a collision-free path among a mass of stationary or migratory obstacles. Various well-established algorithms have been applied to solve navigation tasks. It is necessary to test the performance of designed navig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,418 Views
24 Pages

Enhancing Geomagnetic Navigation with PPO-LSTM: Robust Navigation Utilizing Observed Geomagnetic Field Data

  • Xiaohui Zhang,
  • Wenqi Bai,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Songnan Yang,
  • Ting Shang and
  • Haolin Liu

13 June 2025

Geospatial navigation in GPS-denied environments presents significant challenges, particularly for autonomous vehicles operating in complex, unmapped regions. We explore the Earth’s geomagnetic field, a globally distributed and naturally occurr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,194 Views
18 Pages

Solar system ephemeris is very important for pulsar timing and navigation. In order to explore the effect of different precision ephemerides on X-ray pulsar timing and navigation, the differences between timing and navigation results with four JPL De...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,532 Views
16 Pages

26 June 2018

This paper presents a new Strap-down Inertial Navigation System/Spectrum Red-Shift/Star Sensor (SINS/SRS/SS) system integration methodology to improve the autonomy and reliability of spacecraft navigation using the spectrum red-shift information from...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,391 Views
24 Pages

A Survey on Robot Semantic Navigation Systems for Indoor Environments

  • Raghad Alqobali,
  • Maha Alshmrani,
  • Reem Alnasser,
  • Asrar Rashidi,
  • Tareq Alhmiedat and
  • Osama Moh’d Alia

21 December 2023

Robot autonomous navigation has become a vital area in the industrial development of minimizing labor-intensive tasks. Most of the recently developed robot navigation systems are based on perceiving geometrical features of the environment, utilizing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,783 Views
24 Pages

19 August 2022

With the continuous expansion of the application field of UAV intelligent systems to GNSS-denied environments, the existing navigation system can hardly meet low cost, high precision, and high robustness in such conditions. Most navigation systems us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,003 Views
19 Pages

An Aided Navigation Method Based on Strapdown Gravity Gradiometer

  • Duanyang Gao,
  • Baiqing Hu,
  • Lubin Chang,
  • Fangjun Qin and
  • Xu Lyu

27 January 2021

The gravity gradient is the second derivative of gravity potential. A gravity gradiometer can measure the small change of gravity at two points, which contains more abundant navigation and positioning information than gravity. In order to solve the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,393 Views
22 Pages

A Distributed Formation Joint Network Navigation and Positioning Algorithm

  • Lvyang Ye,
  • Yikang Yang,
  • Jiangang Ma,
  • Lingyu Deng and
  • Hengnian Li

10 May 2022

In view of the problem that the leader-follower joint navigation scheme relies too much on the absolute navigation and positioning accuracy of the leader node, under the conditions of distributed network-centric warfare (NCW) and to meet the location...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,745 Views
13 Pages

Underwater AUV Navigation Dataset in Natural Scenarios

  • Can Wang,
  • Chensheng Cheng,
  • Dianyu Yang,
  • Guang Pan and
  • Feihu Zhang

7 September 2023

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are extensively utilized in various autonomous underwater missions, encompassing ocean environment monitoring, underwater searching, and geological exploration. Owing to their profound underwater capabilities and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,231 Views
20 Pages

Dynamical Analysis of a Navigation Algorithm

  • Mireya Cabezas-Olivenza,
  • Ekaitz Zulueta,
  • Ander Sánchez-Chica,
  • Adrian Teso-Fz-Betoño and
  • Unai Fernandez-Gamiz

6 December 2021

There is presently a need for more robust navigation algorithms for autonomous industrial vehicles. These have reasonably guaranteed the adequate reliability of the navigation. In the current work, the stability of a modified algorithm for collision-...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,028 Views
11 Pages

Testing a Model of Human Spatial Navigation Attitudes towards Global Navigation Satellite Systems

  • Carmen Moret-Tatay,
  • Maddalena Boccia,
  • Alice Teghil and
  • Cecilia Guariglia

3 May 2022

Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) can provide better data quality for different purposes; however, some age groups might lie outside its use. Understanding the barriers to its adoption is of interest in different fields. This work aims at de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,212 Views
18 Pages

Lidar Data Reduction for Unmanned Systems Navigation in Urban Canyon

  • Alfred Mayalu,
  • Kevin Kochersberger,
  • Barry Jenkins and
  • François Malassenet

27 May 2020

This paper introduces a novel protocol for managing low altitude 3D aeronautical chart data to address the unique navigational challenges and collision risks associated with populated urban environments. Based on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
15,063 Views
25 Pages

NFC Internal: An Indoor Navigation System

  • Busra Ozdenizci,
  • Vedat Coskun and
  • Kerem Ok

27 March 2015

Indoor navigation systems have recently become a popular research field due to the lack of GPS signals indoors. Several indoors navigation systems have already been proposed in order to eliminate deficiencies; however each of them has several technic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,302 Views
25 Pages

Development of a Combined Orchard Harvesting Robot Navigation System

  • Wenju Mao,
  • Heng Liu,
  • Wei Hao,
  • Fuzeng Yang and
  • Zhijie Liu

31 January 2022

Our research concerned the development of an autonomous robotic navigation system for orchard harvesting with a dual master-slave mode, the autonomous navigation tractor orchard transport robot being the master followed by a navigation orchard pickin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,442 Views
16 Pages

Dynamic Projection Method of Electronic Navigational Charts for Polar Navigation

  • Chenchen Jiao,
  • Xiaoxia Wan,
  • Houpu Li and
  • Shaofeng Bian

Electronic navigational charts (ENCs) are geospatial databases compiled in strict accordance with the technical specifications of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) is a Geograph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,717 Views
26 Pages

Tightly Coupled INS/APS Passive Single Beacon Navigation

  • Zhuoyang Zou,
  • Wenrui Wang,
  • Bin Wu,
  • Lingyun Ye and
  • Washington Yotto Ochieng

30 March 2023

Unlike aerial or terrestrial navigation, the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is not available underwater. This is a big challenge for underwater navigation. The inertial navigation system (INS) aided by the single-beacon acoustic positionin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
15,543 Views
35 Pages

A Systematic Review of Urban Navigation Systems for Visually Impaired People

  • Fatma El-zahraa El-taher,
  • Ayman Taha,
  • Jane Courtney and
  • Susan Mckeever

29 April 2021

Blind and Visually impaired people (BVIP) face a range of practical difficulties when undertaking outdoor journeys as pedestrians. Over the past decade, a variety of assistive devices have been researched and developed to help BVIP navigate more safe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,056 Views
14 Pages

Image-Guided Navigation in Spine Surgery: From Historical Developments to Future Perspectives

  • John Preston Wilson,
  • Lane Fontenot,
  • Caleb Stewart,
  • Deepak Kumbhare,
  • Bharat Guthikonda and
  • Stanley Hoang

1 April 2024

Intraoperative navigation is critical during spine surgery to ensure accurate instrumentation placement. From the early era of fluoroscopy to the current advancement in robotics, spinal navigation has continued to evolve. By understanding the variati...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
15,900 Views
21 Pages

Assessing Cyber Challenges of Maritime Navigation

  • Andrej Androjna,
  • Tanja Brcko,
  • Ivica Pavic and
  • Harm Greidanus

This paper provides a close investigation into the landscape of both cyber threats and actual incidents in the maritime sector, identifying the cyber trends and challenges as they relate to safe navigation and marine shipping. As an important subset...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,523 Views
61 Pages

Bridging Requirements, Planning, and Evaluation: A Review of Social Robot Navigation

  • Jarosław Karwowski,
  • Wojciech Szynkiewicz and
  • Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz

27 April 2024

Navigation lies at the core of social robotics, enabling robots to navigate and interact seamlessly in human environments. The primary focus of human-aware robot navigation is minimizing discomfort among surrounding humans. Our review explores user s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,425 Views
26 Pages

Comparison of Kalman Filters for Inertial Integrated Navigation

  • Mengde Zhang,
  • Kailong Li,
  • Baiqing Hu and
  • Chunjian Meng

22 March 2019

The current research on integrated navigation is mainly focused on filtering or integrated navigation equipment. Studies systematically comparing and analyzing how to choose appropriate integrated filtering methods under different circumstances are l...

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