On November 13, the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Positioning, Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services (UPINLBS) , jointly hosted by Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (BUCEA) and the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, and jointly supported by IEE, ISPRS, GLAC and ICAACI, was successfully held at Daxing Campus of BUCEA. Zhang Ailin, President of BUCEA, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Zhang Ailin, President of BUCEA, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
Over 230 experts and scholars from multiple countries and regions such as China, Canada, Italy, Korea, Nepal, Japan and Australia in the field of Ubiquitous Positioning, Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services, as well as teachers and students from related schools of BUCEA gathered together to share this grand international event in the field of positioning and navigation. Professor Chen Ruzhi, Chairman of the Conference from the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS) of Wuhan University, delivered the opening speech and hosted the opening ceremony.
The Sixth UPINLBSWA was held at BUCEA
At the opening ceremony, President Zhang Ailin extended a warm welcome to the experts and scholars on behalf of BUCEA. He briefly introduced the long history of the university, its current development conditions and distinctive features. He expressed that the participating experts and scholars would definitely focus on academic and technical frontiers, keep problem-oriented and future-oriented, jointly discuss innovative positioning technologies, emerging location-based applications and services, propose more innovative solutions and advanced technical directions, and produce more innovative achievements. Meanwhile, it was hoped that the experts and scholars present at the event would provide more guidelines for the construction of disciplines and majors as well as talent training at BUCEA.
Address from President Zhang Ailin
Hosting by Professor Chen Ruizhi
Professor Li Songnian, representative of ISPRS Executive Board, extended his warm congratulations to the event. He pointed out that positioning and navigation events and academic exchanges were important parts of the work of ISPRS; Mr. Zhang Quande, Secretary General of the GLAC, delivered a speech in which he made a comprehensive summary of the current development of positioning and navigation and made an in-depth outlook on the future prospects.
Address from Professor Li Songnian
Address from Secretary General
Declaration of list of winners by Professor Du Mingyi
Du Mingyi, Dean of the School of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Information of BUCEA, announced the winners of the outstanding papers of the conference, as well as the winners and representatives of the indoor positioning competition conducted earlier. Zhang Ailin, President of BUCEA, Li Songnian, Representative of ISPRS Executive Board, Xiao Yan, General Manager of Zhengzhou Locaris Electronic Technology Co., Ltd; Naser, Academician of Canadian Academy of Engineering, Zhang Quande, Secretary General of GLAC, and Zhang Qianqian, General Manager of Beijing Digsur Technology Co., Ltd. presented the special, first and second prizes of the competitions and papers respectively and took group photos.
Prize awarding for indoor positioning competition
Prize awarding for outstanding papers
Group photo of the participants
The opening ceremony was followed by two main forum presentations. Professor Wang Jian, Vice President of the Conference and Vice Dean of the School of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Information of BUCEA, presided over the presentation. Naser, Academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, delivered a presentation titled "Technologies for Navigation Everywhere for Autonomous Vehicles", detailing the most advanced methods and technologies in the field of unmanned navigation, describing the irreplaceable position of INS in the field of unmanned navigation, and highlighting the current problems and future directions of development in the field. Professor Chen Ruizhi, Chairman of the conference, delivered a presentation entitled "Beyond GNSS: Sub-meter Indoor Positioning Using Smartphones", which analyzed the role of indoor positioning and the latest smartphone indoor positioning technology from cutting-edge companies such as Google, Apple and Baidu, introduced various smartphone sub-meter indoor positioning approaches and experiments such as ultrasound, structured light, vision, WiFi RTT and 5G, and presented the latest research outcomes from the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS).
Main Forum
The event received widespread attention and active participation of the industry peers in Ubiquitous Positioning, Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services (UPINLBS), and provided a broad platform for the international positioning and navigation field to display research outcomes and discuss cutting-edge issues. The event consisted of 2 main forum and 16 sub-forums, totaling more than 140 presentations. A total of 33 papers and 99 abstracts were collected at the event. The discussions were centered on 16 orientations, such as "Precision Positioning and Navigation Theories and Methods", "Seamless Positioning Benchmarks and Cooperative Positioning Technology", "BDS/GNSS Seamless Positioning in Smart Cities", "Global Precision Positioning Technology in Complex Environments", "Robotics/Unmanned Positioning Technology", "Human Activities with Seamless Sensing Technology", and "Emergency Positioning and Location Service Technology". These discussions covered theoretical research and industrial applications in fields such as smart city IoT, robotics/driverless, indoor/outdoor/aboveground/underground seamless positioning and emergency positioning as well as multi-sensor fusion. They concentrated on the latest progresses and development orientations of current international research in the fields of pervasive positioning, indoor navigation and location services, and demonstrated the broad prospects of industrial application research in the field of positioning and navigation.
Sub Forums
Official Website of the Conference: //kmap.ckcest.cn/upinlbs2019/index.html
