Speakers
AI and Navigation: Don’t Shoot The Physicists
Should we believe the hype? Can AI replace traditional physics-based approaches to positioning and navigation?
Paul Groves is Professor of Positioning and Navigation. He specialises in robust positioning and navigation techniques for challenging environments. These are a key enabler for many different engineering problems. He is interested in all navigation and positioning technologies, including global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), inertial sensors and environmental feature matching. Particular focuses include exploring novel positioning techniques, developing reliable urban positioning and integrating complex sensor combinations in multiple contexts. He is also author of the ~800-page book Principles of GNSS, Inertial, and Multisensor Integrated Navigation Systems (Artech House, 2008 and 2013).
Paul joined UCL's Space Geodesy and Navigation Laboratory (SGNL) in 2009 after 12 years at DERA and QinetiQ. He is an inventor of the GNSS shadow-matching technique and other approaches to 3D-mapping-aided GNSS. He has contributed to innovations in terrain-referenced navigation, visual navigation, positioning using Wi-Fi signals and AM radio broadcasts, heterogeneous feature-matching, detection of GNSS NLOS reception and multipath interference, and context-adaptive navigation. Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN), a member of the Institute of Navigation (ION), a Chartered Physicist. He is the recipient of the 2016 ION Thurlow Award and the 2024 RIN harold Spencer Jones Medal.