09.10.2024

Seminar "Hybrid Lunar Satellite and Cooperative Radio Navigation" by Dr. Robert Pöhlmann from DLR

The SPCOMNAV research group organizes the following seminar on Wednesday, October 9th, 16h-17h, Room: Engineering School QC/3115.3 Seminari G.

11.06.2024

Lucía Pallarés awarded a scholarship funded by the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS)

Our PhD student, Lucía Pallarés, has been awarded one of the fourty scholarships that the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Scholarship Program awarded in its inaugural year. See IEEE announcement [here].The SPS Scholarship Program recognizes students who have ...

02.05.2024

PhD dissertation - Husnain Shahid

Ph.D. student Husnain Shahid successfully completed his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Feasibility of Snapshot-Based Spoofing Detection Using OSNMA Unpredictable Symbols" advised by Prof. Jose A. Lopez-Salcedo and Prof. Gonzalo Seco-Granados, on May ...

29.04.2024

PhD dissertation - Alda Xhafa

Ph.D. student Alda Xhafa successfully completed her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "A study of time and angle- based 5G positioning through simulation and experimental platforms" advised by Prof. Gonzalo Seco-Granados and Prof. Jose A. Lopez-Salcedo, ...

08.06.2023

SPCOMNAV achieves resounding success at the ICL-GNSS'2023 conference

SPCOMNAV had once again a strong presence at the past ICL-GNSS conference held in Castellón (Spain) from June 6 to June 8, 2023. SPCOMNAV was contributing with five (5) works on state-of-the-art topics such as beamforming for GNSS handheld devices, ...

01.07.2022

Gonzalo Seco-Granados receives 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award

The paper "Channel Estimation and Performance Analysis of One-Bit Massive MIMO Systems" that was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, August 2017 received the 2021 ...

17.01.2022

Succesful first test of the EGNOS V3 long-loop algorithm

The long-loop algorithm (LLA) developed by SPCOMNAV as part of its participation in the development of EGNOS V3, was successfully tested on November 2021 during the on-site proof-of-concept event that took place in the premises of Eutelsat at Rambouillet, France. ...

18.07.2019

PhD Dissertation

Ph.D. student Sergi Locubiche-Serra successfully completed his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Robust Carrier Tracking Techniques for GNSS Receivers Affected by Ionospheric Scintillation" advised by Prof. Jose A. Lopez-Salcedo and Prof. Gonzalo Seco-Granados, on July ...

15.02.2019

Awarded the ESA funded HANSEL project to showcase the potential of navigation technologies in Smart Cities.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected the consortium HANSEL, where SPCOMNAV is one of the leading partners, to develop a testbed showcasing the future navigation and positioning services in Smart Cities. SPCOMNAV will contribute with the development of a ...

22.06.2018

SPCOMNAV members awarded COIT/AEIT prizes to the best M.Sc. and best Ph.D thesis

SPCOMNAV members Vicente Lucas and Daniel Egea received the HISDESAT prize for the best M.Sc. thesis and best Ph.D. thesis, respectively, dealing with governmental satellites services. The prizes were awarded by the Spanish Association of Telecommunication Engineers (COIT/AEIT) in a ...

09.06.2018

Open position for PhD students

A three-years grant is offered to prospective students willing to pursue the PhD in the field of GNSS signal processing at the SPCOMNAV group. The grant is funded by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona under the rules of the call for ...

24.03.2018

PhD scholarships in 5G/GNSS

SPCOMNAV is seeking for PhD candidates willing to pursue the PhD in the field of 5G and GNSS positioning with special emphasis on urban and vehicular (V2X) applications. The candidates will benefit from the strong and intense links of ...

22.03.2018

Researchers positions in 5G and GNSS

SPCOMNAV is seeking for researchers to contribute to the activities on 5G and GNSS positioning currently ongoing at the group on urban and vehicular positioning (V2X). The researchers will benefit from the strong and intense links of SPCOMNAV with industry ...

17.11.2017

Organization of Special Session Workshop at WCNC 2018 in Barcelona

The Special Session Workshop on "Localization in Current and Emerging Networks" will be co-organised by SPCOMNAV members at WCNC 2018 in Barcelona.Further information will be found in: http://wcnc2018.ieee-wcnc.org.  

05.06.2017

New synchronization feature adopted in the HackRF official repository

A new time synchronization feature has been recently adopted in the HackRF official repository thanks to the collaboration between SPCOMNAV group, Università di Bologna, and the European Space Agency (ESA). This contribution allows ...

01.01.2017

Open Position for a Software Engineer / Full Stack Developer

Our group is looking for a full-time software engineer to join our team and contribute to the scaling, improvement and maintenance of our innovative Cloud-based GPS receiver. The software platform is ...

28.07.2016

Open position for PhD students

A 3-years PhD grant is offered to prospective students willing to pursue the PhD in the field of GNSS signal processing. The application deadline is September 2, 2016. More information at this link: http://goo.gl/2gJs03

20.10.2015

Organization of ICL-GNSS 2016 in Barcelona

The 6th International Conference on Localization and Navigation, ICL-GNSS, will be organized by SPCOMNAV members in Barcelona in 2016. Further information can be found in http://www.icl-gnss.org.

02.10.2015

SPCOMNAV PhD student awarded by COIT/AEIT

Sergi Locubiche-Serra, PhD student at SPCOMNAV, has received the YOIGO prize awarded by COIT/AEIT to the best academic record. This prize recognizes the best academic trajectory of students that have obtained the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering before the end ...

08.04.2015

Ten abstracts selected for ION GNSS+ 2015

Members of SPCOMNAV are participating in 10 papers that have been preselected for the ION GNSS+ 2015 conference. ION GNSS+ is the flagship conference for GNSS research and development worldwide. This is an extraordinary accomplishment resulting from the very intense activity ...

04.08.2014

Post Doctoral Position on GNSS Signal Processing

Our group offers a postdoc position on GNSS Signal Processing.All the information about the call can be found at http://goo.gl/qyB1Yb. Applications will be evaluated as they are received and the call will be closed once the position is filled. 

15.06.2014

ESA project: "HISENS - Techniques for High Sensitivity GNSS Receivers"

SPCOMNAV, as part of a consortium formed by GMV, RUAG Space and Tecnalia, has been selected to carry out the HISENS project of the European Space Agency. The main objective of this activity is the investigation of high sensitivity ...

02.06.2014

ICREA Award

Gonzalo Seco-Granados has been one of the two researchers of UAB Engineering School who have received the prestigious ICREA Academia Awards [link]. ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research & Advanced Studies) is a publicly funded foundation designed to attract and ...

01.06.2014

PhD grant offered

A grant to pursue a PhD in the group is being offered. The call announcement can be found http://goo.gl/2n3j7D. In ...

13.05.2014

PhD Dissertation

Ph.D. student Jose A. Del Peral-Rosado successfully completed his Ph.D. dissertation "Evaluation of the LTE positioning capabilities in realistic navigation channels" advised by Prof. Gonzalo Seco-Granados, Prof. Jose A. Lopez-Salcedo and Prof. Francesca Zanier on May 13, 2014. 

20.04.2014

Xaloc project helps Barcelona to get the "iCapital award" from the European Commission

The objective of XALOC project was the design of a car parking platform based on wireless sensor networks (WSN). UAB contributed with the development of WSN-based positioning systems devoted to efficiently guide the drivers to ...

31.03.2014

PhD Dissertation

Ph.D. student Sadiq Ali successfully completed his Ph.D. dissertation "Multi-sensor detection schemes using spatio-temporal models" advised by Dr. Jose A. Lopez-Salcedo and Dr. Gonzalo Seco-Granados on March 31, 2014.   

27.09.2013

ADAPT contract signed with the European Space Agency (ESA)

SPCOMNAV is participating in the ADAPT project (Adaptive Tracking Techniques for Navigation Signals) funded by the European Space Agency. The objective of the project is the study of adaptive tracking techniques for GNSS receivers capable of automatically controlling their setting ...

02.01.2013

Offer of a PhD fellowship

We offer a fellowship to carry out the PhD on the topic "Hybrid positioning/communication solutions and signal-level integrity" in the frame of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network. The advisor will be Prof. Gonzalo Seco-Granados.Interested candidates can find additional information ...

01.11.2012

MOON-GNSS contract signed with the European Space Agency (ESA)

SPCOMNAV is participating in the MOON-GNSS (Weak GNSS Signal Navigation on the Moon) project funded by the European Space Agency. The objective of the project is to perform a feasibility analysis of using GNSS as the main navigation technology ...

20.10.2012

SPCOMNAV students in the elite of European research

PhD students Moisés Navarro and Juan Manuel Parro, members of the SPCOMNAV group, have recently attracted the interest of the press and media due to their research activities in the Galileo satellite navigation system. Both Moisés and Juan Manuel are ...

05.10.2012

A new PhD Dissertation

Ph.D. student Joan Enric Barcelo successfully completed his Ph.D. dissertation "Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks: Compression, Energy Efficiency and Security" advised by Dr. Antoni Morell and Gonzalo Seco-Granados on October 5th, 2012. 

01.10.2012

PhD Dissertation

Ph.D. student Albert Bel successfully completed his Ph.D. dissertation "A Pragmatic Approach of Localization and Tracking Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks" advised by Dr. Jose Lopez Vicario and Gonzalo Seco-Granados on October 1st, 2012.  

11.09.2012

Project renewed by the California-Catalonia Engineering Innovation Program

We have been granted a new project under the California-Catalonia Program for Engineering Innovation. The project is an extension of the project carried out during the previous years and it will deal with the analysis of positioning techniques ...

26.07.2012

Open call - Fellowship to pursue the PhD

SPCOMNAV-UAB invites applications for a Predoctoral Fellowship in the field of statistical signal processing applied to wireless communications. The fellowship is intended for graduate students with an excellent academic record, a degree in Telecommunications or Electrical Engineering, and willing to ...

02.07.2012

ROCAT contract signed with the European Space Agency (ESA)

SPCOMNAV-UAB will participate in the ROCAT (Robust Carrier Tracking) project funded by the European Space Agency. The consortium is composed of three partners, SPCOMNAV-UAB, the Portuguese Instituto de Telecomunicaçoes and GMV Portugal (GMVIS Skysoft), who is in charge of the project ...

19.06.2012

iGNSSrx contract signed with the European Commission

SPCOMNAV-UAB will participate in the iGNSSrx (Integrity for GNSS Receivers) project funded by the European Commission. The project coordinator is GMV (Spain) and the rest of partners are NSL (UK) and TRL (UK). SPCOMNAV-UAB will contribute to the design of ...

05.03.2012

SPCOMNAV PhD students join ESA

Moisés Navarro and Juan M. Parro, PhD students at the SPCOMNAV group, have recently joined the European Space Agency (ESA), where they will be pursuing their PhD degree under the supervision of ESA researchers and Profs. Gonzalo Seco-Granados and José ...

12.01.2012

Cooperation project Tunisia-Spain

SPCOMNAV participates in a AECID cooperation project granted by the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación (Spanish Government). The consortium of the project is formed by UAB, CTTC and Sup'Com (Tunisia). The objective of the project is the application ...

10.12.2011

Participation in 3SENS project granted by RecerCaixa

The objective of 3SENS project is the design and implementation of a telecare solution for elderly people. The proposed platform is based on the use of wireless sensor networks (WSN), ...

01.09.2011

Project renewed by the California-Catalunya Engineering Innovation Program

We have been granted a new project under the California-Catalunya Program for Engineering Innovation. The project is an extension of the project carried out during the previous years and it will deal with scheduling and ...

01.06.2011

Student member of SPCOMNAV awarded by COIT/AEIT

Marc Barcelo, student member of SPCOMNAV, has received the COIT/AEIT prize for his final project entitled "IAA Beamforming for Galileo Ground Stations and 2-D Efficient DOA Estimation", and supervised by Dr. Jose Lopez Vicario. This prize awards the best Spanish ...

01.05.2011

Seminar by Prof. Kai Borre

Prof. Kai Borre, from Aalborg University, will give the lecture titled: "Ambiguity Estimation in GNSS". It will take place on May 9th, 2011, at room Q4/1003, from 10h00 to 12h00. Bio: Originally ...

15.01.2011

Seminar by Prof. Prof. Maarten Uijt de Haag

Prof.Maarten Uijt de Haag , from Ohio University, will give the lecture titled: "Navigation in Challenging Environments using GPS, Inertial and Optical Sensors". It will take place ...

01.11.2010

Project renewed by the California-Catalunya Engineering Innovation Program

We have been granted a new project under The California-Catalunya Program for Engineering Innovation. The project is an extension of the project carried out during the previous years and it will deal with implementation aspects of integrated communication and positioning ...

01.10.2010

Post-doc position granted by "Alianza 4 Universidades"

Dr. Joaquin Escudero Garzás has joined our group as a post-doc researcher funded by the "Alianza 4 Universidades". Dr. Escudero Garzás obtained with Ph.D. degree from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2010, and he will be working on ...

25.06.2010

SPCOMNAV selected for the European Space Agency PRESTIGE Programme

The SPCOMNAV group has been selected to participate in the PRESTIGE Programme of the European Space Agency. 

15.06.2010

Seminar by Prof. Aleksandar Dogandzic

Prof. Aleksandar Dogand�ić, from Iowa State University, will give the lecture titled: "ECME Thresholding Methods for Sparse Signal Reconstruction". It will take place on June 15th, 2010, at Sala de Graus, from 11:30h to 12:30h. 

05.06.2010

Seminar by Prof. Lee Swindlehurst

Prof. A. Lee Swindlehurst, from the University of California in Irvine, will give a lecture titled "Physical Layer Techniques for Enhancing Wireless Security". It will take place on June 17th, 2010, at Sala de Graus, from 11:30h to 12:30h. Abstract: ...

04.06.2010

Seminar on Mobile Networking in Challenged Environments

Mr. Esteban Gutiérrez, from the Aerospace Research and Technology Center (CTAE) and Ph.D. candidate at UAB, will give the lecture entitled: "Mobile Networking in Challenged Environments". It will take place on June 04th, 2010, at Seminar A, from 16h to 18h. Abstract: The ...

14.01.2010

Seminar on Social Networks

SPCOMNAV has organized a seminar on Social Networks in the framework of the UAB Master Degree in Design of Telecommunication Systems. The invited speaker was Dr. Andreu Urruela, from Telefónica I+D, who is a leading researcher in the field of ...

13.12.2009

SPCOMNAV participation in SINTONIA project

SPCOMNAV will participate in project SINTONIA sponsored by CDTI (CENIT project). The objective of the project is the design of UAVs based on the minimization of the ambient impact. UAB will contribute in the design of distributed communications and detection ...

20.11.2009

XALOC project signed with AGAUR (INFOREGIO)

The objective of XALOC project is the design of a car parking platform based on wireless sensor networks (WSN). UAB will contribute with the development of WSN- and WIFI-based positioning systems devoted to efficiently guide the drivers to available parking ...

17.11.2009

Project sponsored by the California-Catalunya Engineering Innovation Program

The California-Catalunya Engineering Innovation Program is an exciting collaboration jointly sponsored by the Generalitat de Catalunya, Pete Balsells, and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCI. The sponsored project deals with receiver and signal processing aspects of integrated communication ...

06.07.2009

ADIBEAM contract signed with the European Space Agency (ESA)

SPCOMNAV-UAB will participate in the ADIBEAM (Adaptive Digital Beamforming Techniques for GNSS Receivers) project of the European Space Agency. The coordinator of the project is Indra Espacio, and the other partners are the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Spanish ...

09.06.2009

SPCOMNAV Grants for Master Degree in Design of Telecommunication Systems

The group SPCOMNAV provides grants  for Master Degree in Design of Telecommunication Systems at the UAB. More info about this master and SPCOMNAV grants can be found [here].

24.05.2009

Lecture by Mr. Alvaro Mozo

Mr. Alvaro Mozo, from GMV, will give a lecture on Orbit and Clock Determination and Prediction for GNSS systems. It will take place on May 27th, 2009, at room Q4-1013, from 16:00h to 20:00h.The first part of the talk will ...

23.05.2009

Lecture by Dr. Alexander Mitelman

Dr. Alexander Mitelman, from Cambridge Silicon Radio, will give the lecture titled: "GPS Power Levels In Real-World Environments". It will take place on May 25th, 2009, at room Q4-1013, from 15:00h to 19:00h.The first part of the talk will be ...

05.03.2009

UAB Research Park - Bank of Santander Chair of Technology and Knowledge Transfer

The UAB Researk Park and Bank of Santander have endowed the SPCOMNAV research group with a Chair of Technology and Knowledge Transfer. Gonzalo Seco-Granados will be the director of the Chair during the following two years [link to ...

15.11.2008

SPCOMNAV completes the implementation of a GPS/Galileo HS-GNSS softwareRx

A Matlab-based high-sensitivity GNSS (HS-GNSS) software receiver has been succesfully completed by SPCOMNAV. The receiver is fully compatible with GPS-L1/L5 and Galileo-E1/E5a signals, and it makes use of advanced signal processing techniques for enabling operation in harsh indoor environments. The ...

25.09.2008

Ph.D. Degree Dissertation

Ph.D. student Antoni Morell successfully completed his Ph.D. dissertation "A Convex Decomposition Perspective on Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation and Applications" advised by Prof. Gonzalo Seco-Granados on September 23rd, 2008. Abstract: Traditionally, multiple access schemes in multi-user communications systems have ...

01.09.2008

SPCOMNAV participates in another CENIT

On July 29th 2008, the Center for Industry Technological Developement (CDTI) announced the approval of 14 CENIT projects with a total budget of 377M€. 32 projects proposals were submitted to the 4th CENIT call, which forms part of the INGENIO ...

28.07.2008

Project granted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation

The Spanish Ministry has granted our group the 3-year project: Design of Location-Aware Physical and Link Layers in Cooperative Communication Systems.     

28.02.2008

Live Demonstration of INTERRURAL Project at UAB

The technological principle of INTERRURAL is to provide rural areas with Internet connection by means of terrestrial advanced wireless networks that access the Internet backbone via a satellite ...

01.01.2008

PROFIT contract signed with the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

The motivation of this contract is the provision of wireless connectivity in rural environments by combining different communication technologies. SPCOMNAV-UAB is in charge of ...

01.01.2008

Contract signed with the European Space Agency (ESA)

The "DINGPOS" project has been awarded to the consortium formed by SPCOMNAV-UAB, GMV, Thales Alenia Space, Skysoft, University of Leeds, Nemerix and Nokia ...