In 2016 the symposium was composed of four sessions: "Navigation System and Performance", "Positioning in Challenging Environments","PhD Session" , "Air Navigation". Each session, lasting for half a day, consisted of four presentations. At the end of each day there was a round table that favored the interaction between the audience and the experts.
Programme
2016 Invited Speakers
- Prof. Penina Axelrad , Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Boulder, USA
- Laurent Azoulai, GNSS Landing Systems Expert, Airbus Operations, France
- Dr. Daniele Borio , Joint Research Centre, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizena, European Commission, Italy
- Eric Chatre, Head of Exploitation and Evolution, European Satellite Navigation Programmes, European Commission, Belgium
- Asst. Prof. Demoz Gebre-Egziabher , Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department, University of Minnesota, USA
- Dr. Massimo Crisci ,Head of Radio Navigation Systems and Techniques Section, ESA, The Netherlands
- Sandy Kennedy, Director and Chief Engineer, Core Receiver Cards, NovAtel Inc., Calgary, Canada
- Dr. Gary McGraw, Principal Engineering Manager & Technical Fellow, Navigation & Control Section / Advanced Technology Center, Rockwell Collins, USA
- Dr. Sam Pullen, Senior Research Engineer, Stanford University, USA
- Pascal Rochat, Managing Director, Spectratime, Switzerland
- Catherine Ronfle-Nadaud , RPAS Program Manager, DSNA/DTI, France
- Prof. Stephan Weiss , Alpen-Adria-Universität, Austria
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Sponsors
Keynote Speech
"Key Technical Areas of the European PNT R&D Programs", Eric Chatre, Head of Exploitation and Evolution, European Satellite Navigation Programmes, European Commission, Belgium
Session 1: Navigation System and Performance
"Space Applications of GNSS", Prof. Penina Axelrad, Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
"Robust PNT: the GNSS user and system perspective", Dr. James Curran, Head of Radio Navigation Systems and Techniques Section, ESA, The Netherlands
"Latest & future Evolutions on Atomic Clocks for Global Navigation Satellites Systems", Pascal Rochat, Managing Director, Spectratime, Switzerland
Session 2: Positioning in Challenging Environments
"Navigation in Challenging Signal Environments: Two Big Trends", Dr. Gary A. McGraw, Principal Engineering Manager & Technical Fellow, Navigation & Control Section / Advanced Technology Center, Rockwell Collins, USA
"GNSS Jamming: A Short Survival Guide", Dr Daniele Borio, Joint Research Centre, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, European Commission, Italy
"UAV Navigation with GNSS", Sandy Kennedy, Director and Chief Engineer, Core Receiver Cards, NovAtel Inc., Calgary, Canada
"Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Navigation of Computationally Constrained Aerial Vehicles", Prof. Stephan Weiss, head of the Control of Networked Systems Group, Alpen-Adria-Universität, Austria.
Session 3: PhD Session
"Signal Processing for Integrity Monitoring for Train Transportation", Mattia Berardo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
"Higher Robustness of GNSS Receiver through Interference Mitigation Techniques for Single-Element Antenna Concepts", Thomas Kraus, Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen, Germany
"Evil WaveForm Threat and Monitoring for New GNSS Signals", Jean-Baptiste Pagot, ENAC, France
"When GPS Fails: Navigation, Planning, and Safety in GPS-denied Environments using Vision-based Sensing on Micro Aerial Vehicles", Helen Oleynikova, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Session 4: Air Navigation
"Lessons Learned During the Development of GNSS Integrity Monitoring and Verification Techniques for Aviation Users", Dr. Sam Pullen, Senior Research Engineer, Stanford University, USA
"Use of GNSS for Aircraft Autoland", Laurent Azoulai, GNSS Landing Systems Expert, Airbus Operations, France
"Design and Validation of Fault-Tolerant Integrated Navigation Systems for Small UAVs", Asst. Prof. Demoz Gebre-Egziabher, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department, University of Minnesota, USA
"RPAS Management in Civil Airspace", Catherine Ronfle-Nadaud, RPAS Program Manager, DSNA/DTI, France