Project 98: Smartphone Decimeter Challenge
Contact Information:
Assoc. Prof. Xin Zhang
Email: xin.zhang@sjtu.edu.cn
Project Description and Objectives:
The challenge is initiated by the Institute of Navigation, sponsored and technically supported by Google. The motivation is to encourage students interested in GNSS to develop high precision GNSS positioning on smartphones and exploiting every qualified state-of-the-art technique to fuse data from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and GNSS. The developed algorithms will be such a universal package that with slight modification of the incoming sensor data stream, it can even perform the navigation tasks required for Mars rovers such as “Perseverance”, launched in 2020. Participants will go through systematic training in GNSS positioning programming, Android app development and deployment, after which they will be encouraged to compete in a challenge using a pool of GNSS datasets collected from smartphones and high accuracy ground truth. They will also interact with our brilliant faculty, graduates, and undergraduate students in the team.
Eligibility Requirements:
Basic knowledge of linear algebra is required. Ability to program in C++ will be a plus.
Main Tasks:
Learn how to do sensor fusion for navigation as it was done for the Mars rover “Perseverance” using raw data from a phone that you use in your daily life.
Students will be encouraged to participate in the second Google-ION (Institute of Navigation) Smartphone Decimeter Challenge by using the developed algorithms.
Website:
School: https://www.aero.sjtu.edu.cn