Programme

Advanced conference programme. Minor changes possible.

Date: Tuesday, 25/June/2024

9:00am – 9:20am   Opening

9:20am – 10:20am Keynote: Henk Wymeersch, Chalmers University, Sweden: Radio Localization and Sensing towards 6G: the Carrier Pendulum Swing

10:20am – 11:00am Coffee break

11:00am – 12:40pm GNSS Jamming and Spoofing Resilience

Few-Shot Learning with Uncertainty-based Quadruplet Selection for Interference Classification in GNSS Data
Felix Ott1, Lucas Heublein1, Nisha Lakshmana Raichur1, Tobias Feigl1, Jonathan Hansen2, Alexander Rügamer2, Christopher Mutschler1
1Fraunhofer IIS, Precise Positioning and Analytics Department, Germany; 2Fraunhofer IIS, Satellite-based Localization Systems Department, Germany

OSNMAlib Improvements and Real-Time Monitoring of Galileo OSNMA
Aleix Galan1, Cristian Iñiguez3, Ignacio Fernandez-Hernandez2, Sofie Pollin1, Gonzalo Seco-Granados3
1KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2European Commission, Brussels, Belgium; 3UAB, Barcelona, Spain

Enhancing Spreading Code Signal Authentication in GNSS: a GLRT-based Approach
Francesco Ardizzon, Laura Crosara, Stefano Tomasin, Nicola Laurenti
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Enhancing GNSS Tracking Resilience: An SDR-based Approach with Four-Element Antenna Array
Hamid Kavousi Ghafi1, Günther Obertaxer1, Michael Schönhuber1, Holger Arthaber2
1JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH; 2TU Wien

GNSS Interference Localization for Vehicular Jammers using low-cost COTS Sensors
Simon Kocher, Jonathan Hansen, Alexander Rügamer
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany

12:40pm – 2:00pm Lunch

2:00pm – 3:00pm Keynote: Bruno Bougard, Septentrio: Recent trends in high precision PNT landscape

3:00pm – 4:00pm Special Session: AI for Positioning

Towards Jammer Fingerprinting: the Effect of the Environment and the Receiver to a Jammer Classification
Outi Savolainen1, Titti Malmivirta1, Zhe Yan1, Aiden Morrison2, Laura Ruotsalainen1
1University of Helsinki, Finland; 2SINTEF, Norway

GNSS Anomaly Detection With Complex-valued LSTM Networks
Outi Savolainen1, Arul Elango1, Aiden Morrison2, Nadezda Sokolova2, Laura Ruotsalainen1
1University of Helsinki, Finland; 2SINTEF, Norway

Explainable AI (XAI) for Wireless Communications: UWB Radar for Zone-based Obstacle Detection
Mohammad Cheraghinia, Eli De Poorter, Adnan Shahid
Ghent University, Belgium

4:00pm – 4:40pm Coffee break

4:40pm – 5:20pm Special Session: Vehicle Positioning

Know Your Maps: Uncertainty-Aware Semantic LiDAR Localization with Dual Maps
Lukas Beer, Thorsten Luettel, Mirko Maehlisch
University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany

On the Residual Errors Mitigation in Single-Frequency Code-Based Real-Time PPP
Izadora Aparecida Ramos1, Vinícius Manhães Gabriel de Brito Cavalcanti2, Felipe Oliveira e Silva1, Danilo Alves de Lima1
1Federal University of Lavras, Brazil; 2Instituto Federal Fluminense, Brazil

6:00pm – 8:00pm Reception

 

Date: Wednesday, 26/June/2024

9:20am – 10:20am Keynote: Stefania Bartoletti, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy: Sensing, Communication, and Localization in the Computing Continuum

10:20am – 11:00am Coffee break

11:00am – 12:40pm Sensing and Non-GNSS Positioning

Angle of Arrival Estimation Using SRS in 5G NR Uplink Scenarios
Thodoris Spanos1,2, Fran Fabra3, Jose Lopez-Salcedo3, Gonzalo Seco-Granados3, Nikos Kanistras2, Ivan Lapin4, Vassilis Paliouras1
1University of Patras, Greece; 2Loctio, Greece; 3Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain; 4European Space Agency, The Netherlands

Positioning in DECT-2020 NR with Proactive Measurement Selection
Antti Saikko, Jukka Talvitie, Mikko Valkama
Tampere University, Finland

Segmentation and Classification of Airborne GNSS-R Reflectivity Signals with Speckle Noise Mitigation
Sarah El Hajj Chehade, Hamza Issa, Georges Stienne, Serge Reboul
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, France

Improvement of precise vehicle location in urban areas using video-based photogrammetry
André Pinhal, Jose Alberto Gonçalves
University of Porto, Science Faculty, Portugal

Range-free Positioning in NB-IoT Networks by Machine Learning
Marco Savelli1, Luca De Nardis2, Giuseppe Caso3, Federico Ferretti1, Anna Brunstrom3, Ozgu Alay4, Marco Neri5, Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto2
1TIM S.p.A., Rome, Italy; 2Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 3Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden; 4University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 5Rohde&Schwarz, Rome, Italy

12:40pm – 2:00pm Lunch

2:00pm – 3:00pm Keynote: Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira, ESA/ESTEC: LEO-PNT: the next step in GNSS evolution

3:00pm – 4:00pm Special Session: LEO-PNT

A Novel Beam-Based Positioning Paradigm Via Opportunistic Signal of Future Massive MIMO LEO Satellite Constellations
Mahmoud Elsanhoury1, Janne Koljonen1, Mohammed Elmusrati1, Heidi Kuusniemi1,2
1University of Vaasa, Finland; 2Finnish Geospatial Institute, National Land Survey, Finland

LEO-PNT Performance Metrics – An Extensive Comparison Between Different Constellations
Kaan Çelikbilek, Elena Simona Lohan
Tampere University, Finland

Satellite-based two-way position validation
Felix Abel, Florin-Catalin Grec, Rigas Themistoklis Ioannidis, Lionel Ries, Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira
European Space Agency

4:00pm – 4:40pm Coffee break

4:40pm – 5:40pm GNSS Issues

Investigating Delay Compensation within the Context of Frequency-Aided PLL
Xinhua Tang1, Xinmin Zhu1, Shuguo Pan1, Tao Zhang1, Zhe Yan2, Laura Ruotsalainen2
1Southeast University, China; 2University of Helsinki, Finland

GNSS phase positioning without ambiguity resolution
Hatchouelou Kant Williams Kouassi, Georges Stienne, Serge Reboul
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, France

A comparative analysis of GNSS multipath error characterization methodologies in an urban environment
Eustachio Roberto Matera, Bertrand Ekambi, Jeremy Chamard
Abbia GNSS Technologies, France

7:00pm – 10:00pm Conference Banquet at University Club, Prinsstraat 13A, 2000 Antwerpen

Date: Thursday, 27/June/2024

9:20am – 10:20am Keynote: Gonzalo Seco Granados, UAB, Spain: Unlocking the Potential of 5G and 6G Technologies for Localization and Sensing

10:20am – 11:00am Coffee break

11:00am – 12:20pm Indoor Positioning

Single Anchor Localization by Combining UWB Angle-of-Arrival and Two-Way-Ranging: an Experimental Evaluation of the DW3000
Ben Van Herbruggen, Stijn Luchie, Ruben Wilssens, Eli De Poorter
INTEC-IDLab, Ghent University-imec

Hyperparameterless k-NN for Wi-Fi Fingerprinting
Joaquín Torres-Sospedra1, Ivo Silva2, Cristiano Pendão2,3, Filipe Meneses2, Adriano Moreira2
1Universitat de Vaència, Spain; 2Universidade do Minho, Portugal; 3University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal

A Pragmatic Tradeoff Between Deployment Cost and Location Accuracy for Indoor Tracking in Real-Life Environments
Alpha Mamadou Diallo, Stergios Konstantinidis, Benoît Garbinato
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

A graph-based model for leveraging spatial and fingerprint similarity in RF-based indoor positioning
Liam Mark Self, Ian James Wassell
Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

12:20pm – 1:40pm Lunch

1:40pm – 2:40 pm Keynote: Manon Kok, TU Delft, The Netherlands: Indoor localization using the magnetic field as a source of position information

2:40pm – 3:40pm Space Applications

GNSS inter-user ranging for lunar orbiters flying the spaceborne NaviMoon receiver
Anaïs Delépaut1, Alex Minetto1, Pietro Giordano2, Fabio Dovis1
1Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2ESTEC, European Space Agency, Netherlands

Reduced-Complexity Interpolated and Averaged Memory Model for Ionospheric Corrections in Satellite-Based Positioning
Majed Imad1, Elena Simona Lohan1, Jari Nurmi1, Jani Käppi2, Jari Syrjärinne2
1TAU, Finland; 2u-Blox, Finland

Estimation of GPS block IIF attitude using residual signals
Alexandra Reitu, Urs Hugentobler, Bingbing Duan
Technical University of Munich

3:40pm – 4:00pm Awards, closing and ICL-GNSS 2025

4:30pm – 7:00pm Social Event at Museum Plantin-Moretus