Reported by: Ji Xuan
Photographed by: Feng Jian, Ni Bin
Translated by: Yu Tianyu
Edited by: Garrick Jones
On September 27th to 30th, Prof. WashingtonYotto Ochieng, an academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, visited our university and was invited to be a Chair Professor. He also visited Scientists Forum and gave a presentation entitled “Space-Based Seamless Positioning Technology—Applications, Technologies and Challenges". Vice President Ren Nanqi met with Academician WashingtonYotto Ochieng, and Vice President Ding Xuemei awarded him an agreement of employment.
In his lecture, WashingtonYotto Ochieng noted that GPS has been widely used in many fields such as multimodal traffic and navigation, engineering dimension control, communication network synchronization, geodesy and asset management. He started from the limitations of GPS, led teachers and students to experience a tour of 25-year development history of navigation and positioning technology. We discussed the GPS technology and terrestrial systems, spatial database and advanced user positioning algorithm integration, focusing on terrestrial radio positioning and sensor technology, new GPS signals and new space-based systems (such as the Beidou), explain in detail how these technologies provide high-performance location services for people.
Academician Washington Yotto Ochieng is the head of the Transportation Research Center of the Imperial College London. He is also the director of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Positioning and Navigation System and the head of the Engineering Surveying and Mapping Group. His research interests include Positioning and Navigation System, Air Traffic Control and Intelligent Transportation Systems applied to land, maritime and air.
He has made a great contribution to many important projects like European Union Global Positioning Galileo System, Space-based Enhanced Satellite Navigation System (EGNOA), Global Positioning System Error Modeling, the formulation of European Union Uniform Sky Program Flight Path Control Tool Specification, the application of Integrated Positioning and Navigation System(such as intelligent transportation). His research achievement received many awards in UK and in the world. In 2009, he was named a Global Satellite Navigation System Leader by the Global Positioning System magazine.
Related officials from Ministry of International Cooperation and School of Transportation attended the ceremony of meeting and employment.
Vice President Ren Nanqi met with Academician WashingtonYotto Ochieng
Vice President Ding Xuemei awarded Academician WashingtonYotto Ochieng an agreement of employment
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