NEWS
July 10, 2017
Our team has been selected for a $750,000 grant from NASA to work on algorithms that will support increased levels of rover autonomy for a future Mars sample return mission. WVU Today NASA Press ReleaseJune 29, 2017
Congratulations to Nathan Tehrani for successfully defending his Master's thesis entitled "Characterization and Flight Test of a Multi-Antenna GNSS, Multi-Sensor Attitude Determination Algorithm"!June 20, 2017
Congratulations to Stephane D'Urso for successfully defending his Master's thesis entitled "Analysis of Model-Aided Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehciles"!May 18, 2017
Congratulations to Shannen Daly! Shannen will be participating in the NASA Space Flight Hardware Academy at the Marshall Spaceflight Center this summer!May 15, 2017
Congratulations to Victor Sivaneri! Victor is now a PhD Candidate, after successfully defending his PhD dissertation proposal, passing his written qualifying exams, and finishing his course work.May 5, 2017
Congratulations to Michael Lee for being awarded a STEM-SURE summer fellowship. We look forward to Michael working in the group over the summer.April 17, 2017
WV's first spacecraft, the STF-1 3U CubeSat, has been fully integrated by the NASA IV&V JSTAR/ITC team in conjunction with TMC2 technologies. The WVU NavLab will be ivestigating CubeSat precise orbit determination with duty-cycled GNSS data. Find out more about STF-1's development at the STF-1 Mission Website.April 17, 2017
Congratulations to Shannen Daly and Sean Lantto for being awarded NASA West Virginia Space Grant Graduate research funding!April 7, 2017
Dr. Gross has been named one of the WVU Statler College's 5 Outstanding Teachers for the 2016-2017 academic year! link
March 27, 2017
Congratulations to group members Sean Lantto, Ryan Watson, and Victor Sivaneri for securing external summer internships at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH!February 14, 2017
The abstract of our Institute of Navigation (ION) International Technical Meeting (ITM) article has been featured in the February, 2017 GPS World Magazine. linkNovember 18, 2016
Congratulations to Jeremy Hardy for successfully defending is Master's thesis entitled "Sensitivity Analysis of a Relative Navigation Solution for UAVs in a GNSS-Denied Environment"!November 10, 2016
From Mars to a greenhouse near you: WVU team transitions robot from rover to pollinatorSeptember 6, 2016
Our team, led by the WVU Interactive Robotics Laboratory, won the NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge! $750,000 Check Presentation WVUToday Article Video NASA Press ReleaseAugust 11, 2016
WVU team preps for upcoming Sample Return Robot Challenge July 16, 2016
Jeremy Hardy's and Jared Strader's work on GNSS-Denied UAV Relative Navigation was featured in a review by GPS World Magazine
May 23, 2016
Dr. Gross will be presenting "Advances in GIPSY GNSS/IMU integrated positioning and application to UAVs" at the National Geodetic Survey's NOAA "Airborne Gravity for Geodesy Summer School" on May 26th. Link to Syllabus
May 13, 2016
Congrats to Ryan Watson for successfully defending his Master's thesis "Precise Point Positioning Inertial Navigation Integration for Airborne Kinematic Platforms"!
May 12, 2016
STF-1 CubeSat Mission featured in WVU Magazine, Spring 2016 WVUMag
April 19, 2016
Congrats to Nathan Tehrani and Sean Lantto for winning NASA WV Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowships! Nate will be implementing a multi-antenna GNSS, mulit-sensor attitude estimation for balloon and UAV payloads, and Sean will be working on CubeSat precise orbit determination using duty-cycled GPS Carrier-Phase data.
April, 19, 2016
Contrats Nick Ohi for being selected to WVU's Order of Augusta ( Highest Undergraduate Honor ). Nick led the flight software development for the STF-1 CubeSat's GPS experiment. WVUToday
April 19, 2016
Congrats to group members who've secured external summer internships! Ryan Watson will be spending 8-weeks in the Near Earth Tracking Systems Group at NASA JPL in Pasadena, CA. Jeremy Hardy will be working on GNC algorithms at Systems & Technology Research (STR) in Woburn, MA. Tim Bear will be doing a NASA Internship at MSFC.
April 14, 2016
Best Paper Award for the 2016 IEEE/ION PLANS Track B: Perception for Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Systems! "Cooperative Relative Localization for Moving UAVs with Single Link Range Measurements" (First Author, Jared Strader) pg. 5 of ION Newsletter
April 8, 2016
Dr. Gross has been named the 2016 "New Researcher of the Year" for the WVU Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources! WVUToday
March 29, 2016
Congrats to MAE Freshman Keegan Mueller for being awarded a STEM-SURE Summer Research Position.
October 1, 2015
Dr. Gross has been awarded a WVU Big 12 Faculty Fellowship to visit the Radionavigation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin Read more
September 22, 2015
WVU engineering students honored for victory in NASA robotics competition on Capitol Hill - Read more
June 12, 2015
WVU engineering students make history and bring home $100,000 award in NASA robotics competition Read more
April 24, 2015
Congratulations to lab members Ryan Watson and Victor Sivaneri for winning NASA WV Space Grant (WVSGC) Graduate Research Fellowships to continue their work! Congratulations to Nick Ohi, MAE senior, for winning a NASA WVSGC Undergraduate Research Fellowship! Nick will be joining the lab over the summer to participate on the STF-1 CubeSat mission.
April 7, 2015
Dr. Gross wins National Geospatial Intelligence Agency New Investigator award for work that can help improve the accuracy and robustness of global positioning systems for fast-moving vehicles such as drones. For more information, see the article linked here.
February 14, 2015
Dr. Gross was selected to serve as an associate member of the AIAA's Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Technical Committee. His 3-year term will start May 2015.
January 28, 2015
The WVU Navigation Lab will be participating in the 3U Simulation-to-Flight- 1 (STF-1) CubeSat Mission that is being led by NASA IV&V. The STF-1 mission was notified of their selection for launch as a secondary payload with the support of NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) program. For STF-1, PNG will be delivering the GPS instrument the associated flight software for the GPS payload, and will be seeking to advance the sate of the art for Precise Orbit Determination (POD) of CubeSats. More information can be found at the NASA CSLI selections page , STF-1's project page and this WVU Today article.
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