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Personal navigation assistant

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VDMNav: Software Architecture for Aerodynamically Constrained Navigation on Small Fixed-Wing Drones

Jan Skaloud, Aman Sharma, Gabriel François Laupré

Navigation of drones is predominantly based on sensor fusion algorithms. Most of these algorithms make use of some form of Bayesian filtering with a majority employing an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), wherein inertial measurements are fused with a Global N ...

2024

Impact of Topography on Rural Cycling Patterns: Case Study of Bugesera District, Rwanda

Jérôme Chenal, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Rim Mrani

Rural mobility in Africa is an under-researched issue. Rural communities have often suffered from reduced mobility that has hampered their access to essential services and facilities such as education, health care, food, and clean water. In many rural comm ...

2023

A Large-Scale Characterization of How Readers Browse Wikipedia

Robert West, Tiziano Piccardi, Akhil Arora

Despite the importance and pervasiveness of Wikipedia as one of the largest platforms for open knowledge, surprisingly little is known about how people navigate its content when seeking information. To bridge this gap, we present the first systematic large ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Wikipedia Reader Navigation: When Synthetic Data Is Enough

Robert West, Tiziano Piccardi, Akhil Arora, Alberto Garcia Duran

Every day millions of people read Wikipedia. When navigating the vast space of available topics using hyperlinks, readers describe trajectories on the article network. Understanding these navigation patterns is crucial to better serve readers' needs and ad ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Optimization and Real-Time Aspects of Aircraft Model-Based Navigation

Gabriel François Laupré

The Vehicle Dynamic Model (VDM) based navigation of fixed-wing drones determines the airborne trajectory in conjunction with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors. Without Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals, this method estimates navigati ...

EPFL2022

Reviewing Challenges of Predicting Protein Melting Temperature Change Upon Mutation Through the Full Analysis of a Highly Detailed Dataset with High-Resolution Structures

Luciano Andres Abriata

Predicting the effects of mutations on protein stability is a key problem in fundamental and applied biology, still unsolved even for the relatively simple case of small, soluble, globular, monomeric, two-state-folder proteins. Many articles discuss the li ...

2021

Assessment of Real-World Running With Lab-Validated Algorithms Based on Foot-Worn Inertial Sensors

Mathieu Pascal Falbriard

Following the cultural revolution of the late 1960s, the number of elite and recreational runners rose consistently, reaching approximately 7.9 million road races participants in 2018. Today, running is everywhere. City parks, forests, mountain trails, and ...

EPFL2020

On the new era of urban traffic monitoring with massive drone data: The pNEUMA large-scale field experiment

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Emmanouil Barmpounakis

The new era of sharing information and "big data" has raised our expectations to make mobility more predictable and controllable through a better utilization of data and existing resources. The realization of these opportunities requires going beyond the e ...

2020

Vision Based Navigation for Autonomous Cooperative Docking of CubeSats

Volker Gass, Camille Sébastien Pirat

A realistic rendezvous and docking navigation solution applicable to CubeSats is investigated. The scalability analysis of the ESA Autonomous Transfer Vehicle Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) performances and the Russian docking system, shows that the ...

2018

Assessment of VDM-based autonomous navigation of a UAV under operational conditions

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

This paper presents extensions and practical realization of a previously proposed novel approach to navigation and sensor integration for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The proposed approach employs vehicle dynamic model (VDM) as process model withi ...

Elsevier2018

Robust Tightly Coupled GNSS/INS Estimation for Navigation in Challenging Scenarios

Jan Skaloud, Omar Garcia Crespillo

The combination of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) has become the baseline of many transportation applications. In this work, we design a tightly-coupled integration between GNSS and INS where we modify the u ...

2017

A spatial analysis of motorcycle taxis activities for environmental planning – the case of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda

We report a novel method for the spatial analysis of informal transport activities for future environmental planning. It uses a combination of spatial data gathered with GPS devices and semi-formal interviews. We show that the current configuration of the ...

2017

Autonomous Vehicle Dynamic Model-Based Navigation for Small UAVs

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

This paper presents a novel approach to autonomous navigation for small UAVs, with no extra sensor added to the conventional INS/GNSS setup. The proposed method significantly increases the accuracy and reliability of autonomous navigation, especially for s ...

2016

How does one compute the noise power to simulate real and complex GNSS signals?

Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

Simulation of GNSS signals is very important to test and validate algorithms. With some algorithms, such as acquisition or tracking, we do not need to simulate a realistic constellation with actual ranges, Doppler or navigation data. We can simply simulate ...

2016

Learning class-specific descriptors for deformable shapes using localized spectral convolutional networks

Pierre Vandergheynst, Michael Bronstein

In this paper, we propose a generalization of convolutional neural networks (CNN) to non-Euclidean domains for the analysis of deformable shapes. Our construction is based on localized frequency analysis (a generalization of the windowed Fourier transform ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Optimal Layered Representation for Adaptive Interactive Multiview Video Streaming

Pascal Frossard, Thomas Maugey, Nikolaos Thomos, Laura Toni, Ana Karina De Abreu Goes

We consider an interactive multiview video streaming (IMVS) system where clients select their preferred viewpoint in a given navigation window. To provide high quality IMVS, many high quality views should be transmitted to the clients. However, this is not ...

Elsevier2015

Multi-test Detection and Protection Algorithm Against Spoofing Attacks on GNSS Receivers

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic

The vulnerability against interference, spoofing, and jamming of GNSS receivers is considered nowadays a major security concern. This security threat is exacerbated with the existing market availability of GPS jamming and spoofing equipment sold at reasona ...

2014

A Micro Aerial Vehicle with Precise Position and Attitude Sensors

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

This study shows the potential of navigation technologies in the field of position and orientation determination on a micro aerial vehicle (MAV), which weight does not exceed 5 kg. Although the MAV systems feature high flexibility and capability of flying ...

E Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung2014

Cooperative navigation in robotic swarms

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Philippe Rétornaz

We study cooperative navigation for robotic swarms in the context of a general event-servicing scenario. In the scenario, one or more events need to be serviced at specific locations by robots with the required skills. We focus on the question of how the s ...

Springer Verlag2013

A Probabilistic Map Matching Method for Smartphone GPS data

Michel Bierlaire, Jingmin Chen, Jeffrey Newman

Smartphones have the capability of recording various kinds of data from built-in sensors such as GPS in a non-intrusive, systematic way. In transportation studies, such as route choice modeling, the discrete sequences of GPS data need to be associated with ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013