Navigating a PhD | A. Minetto | PitchD 04
Channel: IEEE PoliTO Student Branch
Date: 07/05/2019

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Navigating a Ph.D. – Squeezing the last drop of information from the Global Navigation Satellite Systems

Mr. Alex Minetto, Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET), Politecnico di Torino

To date, I have spent almost three years involved in a challenging topic in the area of satellite navigation systems. A long journey of research, training and dissemination activities during which time runs out as your effort increases.
It has been a great opportunity to explore and investigate a whole new topic for our research group. It began trying first to capture all the good results of the state of the art and then to align my research with the methodology and trends of our community, until some humble results emerged. The national and international space agencies are going to fill the available orbits with a large number of satellites, but at ground segment, we are still in difficulty in perfectly exploiting what comes from satellites already in orbit. My work in the context of cooperative positioning is investigating theory and implementation aspects of the positioning problem using a network of receivers treated as a sensor network, thus collecting and processing multi-agent data to improve localization performances. It is not just a question of exceptional results in your topic (which hardly are there in only three years), but it is also the opportunity to learn how the world of research works and how your mind can be shaped to be more inclined to research itself.