Combining LiDAR and Time-Domain Frequency Analysis for Enhanced Spatial Understanding of Vibration Responses by Oliver L. Geibendorfer, Christoph Holst

“…Analyzing objects concerning their periodic behavior is mostly performed with inertial measurement units (IMUs) or global navigation satellite system (GNSS) sensors fixed to its surface. …”
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Analog Sequential Hippocampal Memory Model for Trajectory Learning and Recalling: A Robustness Analysis Overview by Daniel Casanueva‐Morato, Alvaro Ayuso‐Martinez, Giacomo Indiveri, Juan P. Dominguez‐Morales, Gabriel Jimenez‐Moreno

“…This model is applied to robotic navigation to learn and recall trajectories that lead to a goal position within a known grid environment. …”
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Time‐Lagged Effects of Ionospheric Response to Severe Geomagnetic Storms on GNSS Kinematic Precise Point Positioning by Zhe Yang, Y. T. Jade Morton

“…Abstract This paper investigates time‐lag effects of ionospheric response to two severe geomagnetic storms (Kp = 8) on the degradation of kinematic precise point positioning (PPP) solutions, utilizing over 5500 Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) stations distributed worldwide. …”
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Prediction of Future Climate Change in Yangtze River Basin by WANG Chao, LI Hao, YE Xiuhui, RONG Qinbiao

“…The significant increase in rainfall in the Yangtze River Basin has led to an increasing trend of annual runoff in the future following the greenhouse gas concentration pathway, and the annual variation ranges are 1 371 m³/(s·10a) (Yichang Station), 827 m³/(s·10a) (Hankou Station), and 332 m³/(s·10a) (Datong Station), respectively, posing challenges for research on flood control, drought resistance, navigation, irrigation, and ecological water demand in the basin.…”
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Climatological Investigation of Ionospheric Es Layer Based on Occultation Data by Haibing Ruan, Xiuwen Qiu, Xin Guo, Xiangxue Wang, Xin Zhang

“…Sporadic E (Es) layers are irregular structures that occur at the E-layer height of the ionosphere, significantly affecting the reliability and accuracy of wireless communications, navigation, and satellite remote sensing. This study utilized the S4max data collected from the Constellation Observing System for the Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) occultation observations from 2007 to 2016 to identify the Es layer and investigate its climatological variations. …”
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TEC Map Completion Through a Deep Learning Model: SNP‐GAN by Yang Pan, Mingwu Jin, Shunrong Zhang, Yue Deng

“…We adapt the Spectrally Normalized Patch GAN (SNP‐GAN) for the TEC map completion using a traditional complete TEC data source, the International Global Navigation Satellite System TEC (IGS‐TEC) maps, as the training data. …”
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Monitoring of Ionospheric Anomalies Using GNSS Observations to Detect Earthquake Precursors by Nicola Perfetti, Yuri Taddia, Alberto Pellegrinelli

“…The ability to predict the ionosphere’s behavior, as well as to mitigate the effects of its rapid changes, is a matter of primary importance in satellite communications, positioning, and navigation applications at present. Ionosphere perturbations can be produced by geomagnetic storms correlated with the solar activity or by earthquakes, volcanic activities, and so on. …”
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A Review of Environmental Perception Technology Based on Multi-Sensor Information Fusion in Autonomous Driving by Boquan Yang, Jixiong Li, Ting Zeng

“…Environmental perception is a key technology for autonomous driving, enabling vehicles to analyze and interpret their surroundings in real time to ensure safe navigation and decision-making. Multi-sensor information fusion, which integrates data from different sensors, has become an important approach to overcome the limitations of individual sensors. …”
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Kinect-Based Exergames Tailored to Parkinson Patients by Ioannis Pachoulakis, Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Anastasia Analyti

“…The platform employs Microsoft Kinect, an affordable off-the-shelf motion capture sensor that can be easily installed in both home and clinical settings. Platform navigation and gameplay rely on a collection of gestures specifically developed for this purpose and are based upon training programs tailored to PD. …”
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Disparity Map Generation from Illumination Variant Stereo Images Using Efficient Hierarchical Dynamic Programming by Viral H. Borisagar, Mukesh A. Zaveri

“…This algorithm can be helpful in applications like robot navigation, extraction of information from aerial surveys, 3D scene reconstruction, and military and security applications. …”
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Toward Accurate Physics‐Based Specifications of Neutral Density Using GNSS‐Enabled Small Satellites by Eric K. Sutton, Jeffrey P. Thayer, Marcin D. Pilinski, Shaylah M. Mutschler, Thomas E. Berger, Vu Nguyen, Dallas Masters

“…With this in mind, we provide an initial method for converting precision orbit determination solutions from global navigation satellite system enabled CubeSats into timeseries of thermospheric mass density. …”
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Short‐Period Concentric Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Excited by the Launch of China's Long March 4B Rocket Detected by 1 Hz GNSS Data by Xiaolin Li, Feng Ding, Xinan Yue, Jianyong Li

“…Abstract Using high‐resolution global navigation satellite system data with a temporal resolution of 1 s, we presented observations of short‐period concentric traveling ionospheric disturbances (CTIDs) triggered by the launch of the Long March 4B rocket at 03:26 UT 7 December 2014 in Taiyuan, China. …”
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On the Growth and Evolution of Nocturnal Ionospheric Irregularities Using HF Radar Observations Along With Digisonde and GNSS Data Over Trivandrum, India by T. V. Sruthi, G. Manju

“…The altitudinal extent of irregularities predicted by the empirical model also serves as a proxy for the occurrence of plasma bubbles, which has significant adverse implications for communication and navigation systems.…”
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Walking and Hippocampal Formation Volume Changes: A Systematic Review by Mohamed Hesham Khalil

“…The right hippocampus increased with spatial navigation during walking. No studies examined the effect of walking on the dentate gyrus. …”
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An Artificial Intelligence Approach for the Kinodynamically Feasible Trajectory Planning of a Car-like Vehicle by Vito Antonio Nardi, Marianna Lanza, Filippo Ruffa, Valerio Scordamaglia

“…Planning is performed on a graph that represents the operating scenario in which the vehicle moves, and the kinodynamic feasibility of the trajectories is guaranteed through a series of set-based arguments, which involve the solution of semi-definite programming problems. Navigation in the graph is performed through a hybrid A* algorithm whose performance metrics are improved through a properly trained classificator, which can forecast whether a candidate trajectory segment is feasible or not. …”
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On the New US Military Strategy in the Arctic by Valeriy N. Konyshev, Alexander A. Sergunin

“…The main threat to Russia’s security in the region is the constant military presence and build-up of US/NATO military infrastructure in close proximity to its Arctic borders, as well as Washington’s intention to implement the principle of “freedom of navigation” in the Arctic Ocean, including the Northern Sea Route.…”
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Global and Local Awareness: Combine Reinforcement Learning and Model-Based Control for Collision Avoidance by Luman Zhao, Guoyuan Li, Houxiang Zhang

“…The learned policy is used as a global path planner during navigation. Secondly, the line-of-sight (LOS) guidance system is applied to calculate the desired course command based on the collision-free trajectory generated according to the policy. …”
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Destination-Aware Time-Constrained Task Allocation in Mobile Crowdsensing for Orienteering Application by Xia Hua, Lei Han

“…Orienteering, a sport that combines navigation with running, requires efficient route planning and real-time decision-making, which can benefit significantly from mobile crowdsensing (MCS) technologies. …”
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Image Registration Using the Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm for Robotic Visual Servoing by Mohamed Kmich, Inssaf Harrade, Hicham Karmouni, Mhamed Sayyouri, S. S. Askar, Mohamed Abouhawwash

“…In addition, our results confirm a significant improvement in the trajectory of the wheeled mobile robot, thus reinforcing the overall effectiveness of our method in practical navigation and robotic control applications.…”
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Study on Glass-Epoxy-Based Low-Cost and Compact Tip-Truncated Triangular Printed Antenna by Rajeev Kumar Kanth, Pasi Liljeberg, Hannu Tenhunen, Qiang Chen, Lirong Zheng, Harish Kumar

“…The proposed printed antennas are suitable for communication links between ships or buoys and satellites specially for navigation purpose.…”
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