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Past Events in 2022

January 01, 2022
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This page lists my news and events in 2022.

  • [12/28/2022] I was glad to be invited to serve as an Editorial Board Member of the Information journal in the Artificial Intelligence Section. Looking forward to contributing to the journal.

  • [12/20/2022] Our paper on the UrbanNav dataset was accepted by NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation. Looking forward to the impact of the UrbanNav dataset!
    • Hsu, L.T., Wen, W., et al., 2022. Hong Kong UrbanNav: An Open-Sourced Multisensory Dataset for Benchmarking Urban Navigation Algorithms. NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation. [Accepted]

  • [12/16/2022] It was great to join the Symposium on Innovative Robotics Technologies and Applications. The rundown can be found here. I was very glad to listen to (some of) the presentations from Prof. Mark Mueller, Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka, Prof. Wei Hsin Liao, Prof. Qi Dou, Prof. Fei Chen, and Prof. Chun Chen. Thank you very much to the Hong Kong Center for Logistics and Robotics for organizing it.

  • [12/15/2022] Welcome to our new project assistant Peiwen Yang! He will work as a project assistant for the next 6 months on unmanned autonomous systems!

  • [12/13/2022] At the invitation of Prof. Steffen Schön, we visited the research team at Leibniz Universität Hannover from 4 Dec 2022 to 10 Dec 2022. Thank you very much to Dr. Hsu and Dr. Zhang for the invitation as well! I learned a lot from the visit! More details can be found here.

  • [11/30/2022] Three conference papers were accepted at the IEEE/ION PLANS 2023 Conference, taking place on April 24-27, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Monterey in Monterey, California. Congratulations to Jiachen, Xiaxiao and Penggao!

  • [11/30/2022] We invited Prof. Wen Li from Beihang University to give a talk at PolyU AAE on the topic “Aerial-Aquatic Robots Capable of Crossing the Air-Water Boundary and Hitchhiking on Surfaces” at 16:00 - 17:00, 30 Nov 2022. Thank you very much to Prof. Wen for the excellent presentation. A post about the presentation can be found here.

  • [11/30/2022] We were happy to be invited to join the “美团机器人研究院启动暨学术研讨会” and share our insights on UAV systems in complex scenarios.

  • [11/25/2022] I started serving as a regular reviewer for several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and Artificial Intelligence Journal!

  • [11/24/2022] I am very happy to become a member of the Research Institute for Land and Space. Thank you very much to Dr. Hsu for the recommendation. Looking forward to contributing to the institute!

  • [11/21/2022] I am very happy to become a member of the Research Centre on Data Sciences & Artificial Intelligence. Today, I also gave a presentation entitled “Unmanned Autonomous System (UAS) in Complex Areas: Positioning and System Development” with Dr. Hsu.

  • [11/18/2022] We are happy and honoured to announce that we received a Meituan Research Award for our proposal “Vision Aided GNSS-RTK Positioning for UAV System in Urban Canyons”. We hope to bring our navigation technologies to UAV systems!

  • [11/13/2022] We gave a virtual talk to Harbin Engineering University. The title of the presentation was “3D LiDAR Aided High Accuracy GNSS Positioning in Urban Canyons”. Thank you very much to Prof. Yulong Huang for the invitation. More details about the presentation can be found in the News.

  • [11/04/2022] We had a very insightful online meeting with the navigation team from SAIC（中国上汽集团）on data collaboration. Looking forward to making an impact on the autonomous driving industry with our navigation research! (AM, 04 Nov 2022 at PolyU).

  • [11/03/2022] Welcome to our new project assistant Hüseyin Duran! He will work as a project assistant for the next 6 months.

  • [10/24/2022] Our paper titled “Integration of Vehicle Dynamic Model and System Identified Model for Navigation in Autonomous Mobile Robots” has been accepted at the ION ITM 2023 conference, taking place on January 23-26, 2023 in Long Beach, California, U.S. Congratulations to Penggao!

  • [10/29/2022] We demonstrated our autonomous driving technology to students from a high school in Hong Kong. The details can be found in the news.

  • [10/28/2022] The research team from Hong Kong ASTRI visited us, and we had a very insightful discussion on collaborating to make an impact in Hong Kong. We hope to build a collaboration in V2X to enable intelligent vehicles in complex scenarios. The details can be found in the news.

  • [10/08/2022] We are organizing a workshop session at IEEE ITSC 2022 on the topic “Intelligent Vehicle Meets Urban: Safe And Certifiable Navigation And Control For Intelligent Vehicles In Complex Urban Scenarios” at 09:00 - 12:00, 08 Oct 2022. More details can be found on our Workshop Website. We are proud to have invited speakers including Prof. Guoquan Huang, Prof. Cheng-Zhong Xu, Dr. David M. Rosen, Prof. Ming Liu, Prof. Markus Ryll and Dr. Li-Ta Hsu. The Tencent Meeting link is Tencent Meeting Link, and the Meeting ID is 265-418-897. See details in the News.

  • [10/14/2022] We invited Dr. Hendrik Kolvenbach from the Autonomous Systems Lab of ETHZ to give a talk at PolyU AAE on the topic “Quadrupedal Robots for Planetary Exploration” at 15:00 - 16:00, 14 Oct 2022. The Zoom link can be found here.

  • [09/27/2022] We invited Wei Xijia from UCL to give a talk at PolyU AAE on the topic “From Single Modality to Modality Fusion, The First Step Towards Robust Multisensory Based Localisation Powered by AI” at 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm on 27 Sep 2022 (Tue). Zoom information: Meeting ID: 976 5053 2247, Passcode: 491169. Big thanks to Xijia!

  • [09/03/2022] We were invited to give a tutorial at IPIN 2022 on the topic “Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Technologies for Indoor Positioning: Development and Challenges”.

  • [08/23/2022] On 23 Aug 2022, 1 paper was accepted by IET Intelligent Transportation Systems:
    • Zhong, Y., Huang, F., Zhang, J., Wen, W.* and Hsu, L.T., 2021. Low-cost Solid-state LiDAR/Inertial Based Localization with Prior Map for Autonomous Systems in Urban Scenarios. IET Intelligent Transport Systems.
  • [08/01/2022] In Aug 2022, 1 paper on LiDAR SLAM was accepted by NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation:
    • Wen, W., & Hsu, L. T. (2022). AGPC-SLAM: Absolute Ground Plane Constrained 3D Lidar SLAM. NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, 69(3).
  • [06/08/2022] In Jun 2022, 2 conference papers were accepted at IEEE ITSC 2022:
    • Huang, F., Wen, W.*, Ng, H., Hsu, L.T. (2022, October). LiDAR Aided Cycle Slip Detection for GNSS Real-Time Kinematic Positioning in Urban Environments. In 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE. [Accepted]
    • Bai, X., Wen, W., Zhang, G., Ng, H., Hsu, L.T.* (2022, October). GNSS Outliers Mitigation in Urban Areas Using Sparse Estimation Based on Factor Graph Optimization. In 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE. [Accepted]

  • [06/30/2022] We invited Dr. Shreyas Kousik to give a talk at PolyU AAE on the topic “The Right Stuff: Representing Safety for Widespread Autonomy” on 30 Jun 2022. Many thanks to Shreyas.

  • [04/23/2022] On 23 April 2022, 1 paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems:
    • Wen, W., & Hsu, L. T. (2022). 3D LiDAR aided GNSS NLOS mitigation in urban canyons. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • [04/08/2022] In April 2022, 3 papers were accepted at ION GNSS+ 2022!
    • Wen, W. and Hsu, L.T., 2022, September. Factor Graph Optimization for Tightly-coupled GNSS Pseudorange/Doppler/Carrier phase/INS Integration: Performance In Urban Canyons of Hong Kong. In Proceedings of the 35th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2022). [Accepted]
    • Zhong, Y., Wen, W.*, Ng, H., Bai, X., and Hsu, L.T. 2022, September. Real-time Factor Graph Optimization Aided by Graduated Non-convexity Based Outlier Mitigation for Smartphone Decimeter Challenge. In Proceedings of the 35th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2022). [Accepted]
    • Liu, X., Wen, W.*, and Hsu, L.T. 2022, September. 3D LiDAR Aided GNSS Real-time Kinematic Positioning via Coarse-to-fine Batch Optimization for High Accuracy Mapping in Dense Urban Canyons. In Proceedings of the 35th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2022). [Accepted]
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