Overview
Topic status: We're looking for students to study this topic.
GPS (Global Position System) is the most widely used navigation technology for automobile systems. The GPS applications can be used in traffic navigation, emergency assistance, collision avoidance and vehicle tracking in automobiles. Seamless navigation means continuously navigating users over the applicable areas of those sensors and maps.
Therefore, seamless navigation in GPS will provide reliable navigation, reduce the fuel consumption of the vehicles, minimize dangerous driving, and reduce the possibility of collision. However, current GPS devices can provide location information, route guidance and location-sensitive services only when there is a direct line of sight to four or more satellites. When a vehicle passes through a tunnel or urban areas, the tunnel or high skyscrapers block the signals from the satellites. As a result, the GPS device in the vehicle could not communicate with the satellites effectively, and continuous navigation of the vehicle becomes impractical. This motivates the research on seamless global navigation technologies.
The projects to be carried out on this topic aim to develop leading edge technologies for seamless navigation services through corporative computing of ad-hoc wireless networks with GPS. They will focus on network architecture, routing protocols, cross-layer optimization, computing frameworks, and computing algorithms.
- Study level
- PhD, Masters, Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
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Please contact the supervisor.
Professor Glen Tian
