What if GPS had existed in 1565? No satellites or microelectronics, sure—but let’s play along. Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps.

The pilots flying into Denver International Airport could tell something was wrong. In urgent calls to air traffic controllers, they reported that the Global Positioning System they used to navigate ...

Abstract: GPS has evolved into a vital component of our critical infrastructure. Originally developed over 50 years ago as a military navigation system, it has since been transformed into an ...

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) underpin modern positioning and navigation, integrating signals from multiple satellite constellations such as GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou. Recent ...

Self-driving cars have always depended on maps, but the maps themselves are starting to look a lot more like the brains of ...

Accurate smartphone positioning in dense urban environments remains challenging due to signal blockage, multipath effects, and unreliable satellite visibility.

Catheters could soon feature medical positioning system technology, which would provide real-time position and orientation information for intrabody navigation. The release of global positioning ...

As the automotive industry moves to higher levels of automated and autonomous driving (Figure 1), lane-level accuracy combined with adherence to strict automotive safety standards is required, but ...