
Ni ZhuGustave Eiffel University · Géolocalisation (Geoloc)
Ni Zhu
Doctor of Engineering
GNSS integrity monitoring for terrestrial applications; Multisensor hybridization navigation; AI-aided navigation
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October 2018 - October 2020
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Urban environments present significant challenges to commercial Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers due to degraded satellite visibility and Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) receptions. Mitigating NLOS receptions for GNSS is essential, especially for safety-critical and reliability-critical location-based applications. Traditional physical...
Indoor positioning is a thriving research area which is slowly gaining market momentum. Its applications are mostly customised, ad hoc installations; ubiquitous applications analogous to GNSS for outdoors are not available because of the lack of generic platforms, widely accepted standards and interoperability protocols. In this context, the Indoor...
The performance of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based navigation is usually degraded in challenging environments such as deep urban and light indoors. In such environments, the satellite visibility is reduced, and the complex propagation conditions perturb the GNSS signals with attenuation, refraction, and frequent reflection. This...
In recent years, a great research interest came up on the automatic protection of road users like pedestrians, bicyclists, or cars. One main problem of it is the position estimation of all road users in order to avoid upcoming collisions. Additionally to that, accurate positioning systems that are able to predict the intention or the future traject...
The Special Issue “Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Smart Sensing Applications” focused on the publication of advanced signal processing methods by means of state-of-the-art machine learning technologies for smart sensing applications [...]
Wearable devices embedding inertial sensors enable autonomous, seamless, and low-cost pedestrian navigation. Appealing it is, the approach faces several challenges: measurement noises, different device-carrying modes, different user dynamics, and individual walking characteristics. Recent research applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve ine...
Navigating in urban environment is a major challenge for visually impaired people. Spatial landmarks are crucial for them to orient and navigate in their environment. In this paper, the spatial landmarks most important and commonly used by visually impaired people are identified through interviews, and geometric constraints of these landmarks are c...
With the advent of new positioning-based applications, and particularly safety critical and precise positioning applications (like autonomous transport), the European Commission (EC) and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) are assessing the possible evolutions of the European GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) (EGNSS) –...
IPIN2022, International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation 2022, PEKIN, CHINE, 05-/09/2022 - 07/09/2022
This paper presents a wearable positioning system which is able to provide real-time positioning information for all kinds of environments in a robust way. The system is mainly based on a foot-mounted INS assisted by a GNSS receiver as well as a barometer. The scenario presented in this paper took place during the final competition of the challenge...
Foot-mounted positioning devices are becoming more and more popular in the different application field. For example, inertial sensors are now embedded in safety shoes to monitor security. They allow positioning with zero velocity update to bound the error growth of foot-mounted inertial sensors. High positioning accuracy depends on robust zero velo...
Every year, for ten years now, the IPIN competition has aimed at evaluating real-world indoor localisation systems by testing them in a realistic environment, with realistic movement, using the EvAAL framework. The competition provided a unique overview of the state-of-the-art of systems, technologies, and methods for indoor positioning and navigat...
Every year, for ten years now, the IPIN competition has aimed at evaluating real-world indoor localisation systems by testing them in a realistic environment, with realistic movement, using the EvAAL framework. The competition provided a unique overview of the state-of-the-art of systems, technologies, and methods for indoor positioning and navigat...
This paper provides a multiple sensor dataset collected by the CyborgLOC team during the intermediate competition of the Challenge MALIN (MAîtrise de la Localisation INdoor), which is a competition for indoor/outdoor real-time positioning. The sensors, including a GNSS receiver Ublox NEO-M8N, a Realsense D435i stereo camera, three Xsens MTi-300 and...
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) integrity is defined as a measure of trust that can be placed in the correctness of the information supplied by the total system. Initially developed for safety-
critical applications in the aeronautic domain, this concept has attracted more and more attention from terrestrial GNSS-based applications in rec...
Zero velocity update is a common and efficient approach to bound the accumulated error growth for foot-mounted inertial navigation system. Thus a robust zero velocity detector (ZVD) for all kinds of locomotion is needed for high accuracy pedestrian navigation systems. In this paper, we investigate two machine learning-based ZVDs: Histogram-based Gr...
New technologies such as GNSS-based positioning solutions will contribute to the modernization and efficiency enhancement of the railway system. Its capacity to provide a global absolute position without any infrastructure to be supported by the user at reasonable cost makes GNSS a game changer for rail. However, in order to reach the high-level pe...
With the highly development of navigation techniques during the past decades, the demand for seamless indoor-outdoor navigation is growing from different application fields especially for the military or the first response emergency services. For military applications, one of the key performance requirements is the availability of the positioning s...
From user guidance applications to trains or road vehicles fleet management, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based positioning systems are more and more spread and used in urban environments. However, urban environments present great challenges for GNSS positioning since numbers of obstacles result in signal attenuations and blockages, wh...
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have continually involved in our daily life in the past decades. Among all these GNSS-based applications, there is an increasing number of GNSS-based urban transport applications, especially the critical liability ones, such as the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) and the Intelligent Transport System (ITS)...
In the past decades, more and more Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)-based urban transport applications emerged. Among these applications, the liability critical ones, such as Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) and Pay as you Drive insurance, have high requirements for positioning accuracy as well as integrity since large errors can lead to...
Integrity is one criteria to evaluate GNSS performance, which was first introduced in the aviation field. It is a measure of trust which can be placed in the correctness of the information supplied by the total system. In recent years, many GNSS-based applications emerge in the urban environment including liability critical ones, so the concept of...
Integrity is one of the most important parameters characterizing the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) performance for safety-related applications. It is defined as a measure of trust to be placed in the correctness of the information supplied by the total system. This concept is more and more important, especially for applications in urba...
This article aims at investigating the impact on an airborne receiver of BOC-induced tracking biases that can affect the Galileo E1 OS measurements. It is assumed here that the considered receiver implements a dedicated bias detector. Therefore, such errors are by nature short in time. However, their occurrence rate can have an impact on the genera...