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Advanced methods in Localization and Navigation

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 548-0150/01
Abbreviation PMLN
Course title Advanced methods in Localization and Navigation
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Geoinformatics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Michal Kačmařík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1) Introduction to precise GNSS positioning
2) Observation and support data for precise GNSS positioning, their pre-processing
3) Phenomena and errors influencing GNSS positioning
4) Ambiguity resolution
5) Precise Point Positioning (PPP) technique
6) Double-differenced techniques, network solution
7) Work with coordinates, long-term and short-term changes in coordinates
8) Localization via wireless networks
9) Vision based localization and navigation
10) Inertial localization and navigation
11) Fusion of sensors and technologies
12) Indoor lokalizace a navigace
13) Simultaneous navigation and mapping (SLAM)

Literature

TEUNISSEN, P., MONTENBRUCK, O. Springer Handbook of Global Navigation Satellite Systems. Springer, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-030-73172-4 .
QUAN, W., LI, J., GONG, X., FANG, J.: INS/CNS/GNSS Integrated Navigation Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015. ISBN:978-3-662-45158-8 .
SUBIRANA, S., ZORNOZA, J., HERNANDÉZ-PAJARES, M.: GNSS DATA PROCESSING, Volume I: Fundamentals and Algorithms. European Space Agency, 2013. ISBN:978-92-9221-886-7 .
SAMAMA, N. Indoor positioning: technologies and performance. Wiley, 2019. ISBN:978-1-119-42184-9 .

Advised literature

DACH, R., LUTZ, S., WALSER, P., FRIDEZ, P.: Bernese GNSS Software, Version 5.2. University of Bern, 2015, 884 str. ISBN:978-3-906813-05-9 .
BURGER, W., BURGE, M., J.: Principles of Digital Image Processing: Fundamental Techniques. Springer, 2011. ISBN:978-1848001909 .
SAND, S., DAMMANN, A., MENSING, Ch. Positioning in wireless communications systems. Wiley, 2014. ISBN:978-0-470-77064-1.
YASUDA, Y., Martins, L.E., Cappabianco, F.: Autonomous Visual Navigation for Mobile Robots: A Systematic Literature Review. ACM Comput. Surv., 2020, 53, 1.