2022 Thurlow Award

Presented to: Dr. Mathieu Joerger

Citation: For significant contributions to integrity and continuity assurance for safety-of-life navigation

From 2002 to 2016 at Illinois Tech, Dr. Mathieu Joerger led the Boeing-sponsored iGPS program. His 2010 NAVIGATION paper, Analysis of Iridium-augmented GPS for floating carrier phase positioning, is the 25th most-cited paper in NAVIGATION since 1947 (in the top 3%). As Co-PI on the US Navy’s JPALS, Dr. Joerger developed sequential RAIM methods in his 2013 AIAA JGCD paper, Kalman filter-based integrity monitoring against sensor faults. On the FAA-sponsored ARAIM project, his 2014 article, Solution Separation Versus Residual-Based RAIM, is the 17th most cited in NAVIGATION’s history (in the top 2%). While at the University of Arizona, he co-authored a 2017 IEEE TAES paper, An INS monitor to detect GNSS spoofers capable of tracking vehicle position.

Since arriving at Virginia Tech in 2019, he has published 33 conference papers and 12 peer-reviewed journal papers. He has been a PI on FAA, NSF, and industry-sponsored research investigating multisensory localization safety for autonomous transportation systems. As contributor to the EU/US Cooperation on Satellite Navigation, he has pioneered the newest concepts and algorithms to enable safe GNSS-based vertical guidance for aircraft.

Dr. Joerger has been senior editor of IEE TAES of navigation since 2021, and technical and associate editor since 2014. He is chair of RTCM Special Comittee-134 Working Group 1 on integrity for GNSS-based high-accuracy applications. He has served as program or track chair for four ION and IEEE conferences, and as session chair on numerous occasions. He received the ION’s 2009 Bradford W. Parkinson Award and the 2015 ION Early Achievement Award. Since 2010, he has won 16 ION Best Presentation Awards.

Dr. Joerger received an MS in mechatronics from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Strasbourg, France (2002) and a PhD in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Illinois Tech (2009).