The center has taken characteristic advantages and innovative knowledge source supply in the fields of navigation and positioning technology, marine observation technology and ship intelligent equipment technology, providing intellectual support for comprehensively enhancing the core competitiveness of China's Marine engineering equipment industry. The center has a total number of 66 people, including 65 full-time researchers. The staff consists of 38 professors, 18 associate professors. 63 of them have doctoral degrees, and 6 of them are entitled national talents. The center has an average annual scientific research expenditure of more than 40 million yuan. More than 200 students are working for their master's degree and doctoral degrees.