TRACK A: Inertial Sensing and Technology
Track Chair: Dr. Michael Braasch, Ohio University

Alternative Sensors for Aiding INSs and Precision Timing
Alternative sensor technologies and techniques to aid inertial navigation systems. Applications include eLoran, vision, stellar, and cold atom sensors, gravimeters, and magnetometers. Alternative sensor technologies and techniques to provide precision timing, time synchronization and time transfer with emphasis on compact, low-power, and high-performance atomic clocks.
Chairs:
Dr. Gabriel Elkaim, University of California, Santa Cruz
Brian Schipper, Honeywell

High Performance Inertial Sensor Technologies
High accuracy inertial sensors capable of providing navigation/strategic grade performance. Applications include precision free inertial navigation, antenna stabilization, pointing. Sensor calibration (including self-calibration) and testing techniques to achieve high performance. Real data is strongly preferred over simulations.
Chairs:
Dr. Arnon Arbel, Cielo Inertial Solutions
Zenon Melnyk, Collins Aerospace 

Inertial Measurement Units
IMUs/IRUs for space, missiles, aircraft, weapons, land vehicles. IMU/IRU calibration and compensation; tactical, navigation, and strategic grade.  Multi-axes and combo sensors for IMU/IRU. IMU/IRU electronics and software techniques. Includes testing and calibration techniques.
Chairs:
Dr. Kari Moran, NIWC Pacific
Sam Dimashkie, Northrop Grumman

Integrated Inertial Navigation Systems
New developments in inertial navigation systems. Tactical, navigation, and strategic grade systems. Open system architectures for INS. Calibration, error modeling, and compensation. Includes testing and calibration techniques.
Chairs:
Phil Bruner, Northrop Grumman
James McDonald, Honeywell

Small Size or Low-Cost Inertial Sensor Technologies
Low-cost manufacturing, packaging, calibration and test of inertial sensors. Small size inertial sensors capable of providing near-navigation grade performance. Includes sensor electronics and control loop mechanization. Sensor calibration, modeling, and self-calibration techniques for achieving high performance. The latest advances on inertial sensors for applications where C-SWAP are key criteria. Low cost and integrated aiding sensors. Real data is strongly preferred over simulations. 
Chairs:
Ryan Knight, Army Research Lab
Dr. Alex Trusov, Northrop Grumman 

Receiver Design, Signal Processing, and Antenna Technology 2

Chairs:
Dr. Gianluca Caparra, European Space Agency
Mohammad Neinavaie, The Ohio State University

GNSS Resilience to Interference, Jamming, and Spoofing 2

Chairs:
Dr. Andrew Dempster, University of New South Wales
Dr. Joshua Morales, StartNav

TRACK B: Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
Track Chair: Dr. Pau Closas, Northeastern University

Atmospheric Effects
Modeling of ionospheric and tropospheric effects. Use of single and multi-frequency receivers for atmospheric studies. Novel signal processing and machine learning methods for characterization and mitigation of atmospheric effects. Forecasting, now-casting, kriging. New application scenarios and mapping functions. 
Chair:
Dr. Fabio Dovis, Politecnico di Torino

GNSS Integrity and Augmentation Systems
Algorithm and requirement definition for integrity, continuity, availability, and accuracy evaluation. Safety-critical applications that make use of ARAIM, GBAS, SBAS and other GNSS technologies. Architecture and requirement allocation for augmentation systems including PPP, RTK, NRTK. Nominal error modeling, over-bounding, and fault definition. Single-measurement and multi-measurement fault detection and exclusion. Instantaneous and sequential integrity risk bounding and protection level derivation. High-integrity sensor fusion and integrity budget allocation for individual sensors. Integrity, continuity and availability of new multi-constellation systems, including using LEOs. Integrity of PNT systems that augment and complement GNSS (LTE, 5G, DME/VOR/TACAN, LDACS, eLORAN).
Chairs:
Dr. Ilaria Martini, European Commission JRC
Dr. Mathieu Joerger, Virginia Tech

GNSS Resilience to Interference, Jamming, and Spoofing 1
Robust GNSS solutions, through complementary PNT (CPNT) or other means. Applications in robust positioning and secure time transfer. Threat modeling, assessment, and mitigation. Detection and mitigation measures at RF and baseband levels. Impact of security measures on the reliability and integrity of GNSS.
Chairs:
Ryan Mitch, Johns Hopkins/APL
Dr. Todd Humphreys, University of Texas at Austin 

Precise GNSS Positioning
Precise positioning with GNSS Real Time Kinematic (RTK) techniques and/or multi-sensor setups (e.g., INS). Multi-frequency, multi-constellation PPP/RTK. Low-cost single frequency PPP/RTK. 
Chairs:
Dr. Daniel Medina, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Dr. Fabricio Prol, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute

Receiver Design, Signal Processing, and Antenna Technology 1
GNSS antennas, receivers, and processing methods for improving accuracy, reliability, or robustness. Methods including tracking loops, direct positioning, optimum and suboptimal multi-antenna systems, beamforming, polarization, and direction-of-arrival methods. Baseband signal processing, and software-defined implementations. Machine learning and data-driven methods for receiver design.
Chairs:
Dr. Thomas Pany, University of Bundeswehr Munich
Dr. Joe Khalife, Apple

Signals of Opportunity-Based Navigation Systems 2

Chairs:
Dr. José del Peral Rosado, Airbus Defence and Space
Dr. Ramsey Faragher, Focal Point Positioning

TRACK C: Integrated, Collaborative, and Opportunistic Navigation
Track Chair: Dr. Christian Gentner, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Collaborative and Networked Navigation
Developments and techniques for exploiting network connectivity to assist and improve navigation. Efforts for supplying accurate up-to-date information to naviga-tion processors. Sharing of data for relative navigation solutions within a defined group, multi-node collaborative signal processing, and providing navigation-related information for activities and applications requiring complex coordination such as search and rescue, autonomous cooperative systems, V2X, etc. Crowd sourcing/cloud-based computing for navigation and position authentication purposes.
Chairs:
Dr. Jason Rife, Tufts University
Dr. Clark Taylor, Air Force Institute of Technology

Multisensor Integrated Systems and Sensor Fusion Technologies
Systems and algorithms involving innovative ways of integrating traditional aiding sensors or new aiding sources into multisensory integrated navigation systems. Test results showing the expanded use or improvement of the accuracy, availability, and/or integrity performance of multisensory navigation systems. Processing algorithms and methods for multisensory systems. Simulation programs for performance pre-dictions and algorithms for multisensory fault detection and isolation.
Chairs:
Dr. Charles Toth, The Ohio State University
Dr. Vibhor Bageshwar, Honeywell

Navigation Using Environmental Features
New navigation techniques using natural and man-made features of the surrounding environment including visual and acoustic features, magnetic and gravitational fields, celestial objects, sferics, stars, microclimate, odors and particulates, shadows, occlusions, etc. Topics on new feature classes, new sensors, and/or new algorithms including new signal processing techniques for environmental features. Feature classification, recogni-tion and association. Cooperative data distribution and 3-D mapping. New positioning algorithms using proximity, pattern matching, ranging, and/or angular positioning; and navigation using multiple classes of environmental feature and context detection.
Chairs:
Dr. Jiwon Seo, Yonsei University
Tucker C. Haydon, Sandia National Laboratories

Signals of Opportunity-Based Navigation Systems 1
Integration of terrestrial-based systems for improved navigation performance, includ-ing Loran, VOR, DME, TACAN, ILS, MLS, NDB, etc. New or improved terrestrial-based or space-based navigation systems based on the use of Wi-Fi, broadcast television, cellular communications, LEO satellite broadcasts, or other signals of opportunity. New sensor fusion schemes for combining SOPs with other technologies (e.g., All-Source Navigation Filters). Initialization, calibration, and training methods for improving the performance of SOPs systems, including approaches utilizing machine learning. Emerging indoor GNSS-augmentation messaging and navigation systems. Hybrid fusion of non-terrestrial and terrestrial-based navigation systems, including signals of opportunity.
Chairs:
Dr. John Lawton, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Dr. Mahdi Maaref, OneNav

Vision-Based Navigation Systems
Systems and advanced algorithms related to emerging vision-based navigation applications in GNSS-challenged environments. Integration of data from multiple sensors for combined situational awareness and navigation. Vision sensor modeling, calibration, data processing and image feature extraction.
Chairs:
Dr. John Raquet, IS4S
Dr. Maarten Uijt de Haag, TU Berlin 

TRACK D: Applications to Automated, Semi-Autonomous, and Fully Autonomous Systems
Track Chair: Dr. Robert Leishman, Air Force Institute of Technology

Aerial Vehicle Navigation
Guidance, navigation, and perception systems for manned and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Collaborative UAV navigation. Map building for UAV operations. Tele-operation of UAVs. Navigation in GNSS-denied/challenged environments. Sense and avoid for UAVs operating in the national airspace. Specific UAV applications, their requirements, and particular challenges or constraints. Validation and verification of navigation systems for manned and unmanned aerial vehicles.
Chairs:
Dr. Demoz Gebre-Egziabher, University of Minnesota
Andrew Videmsek, Reliable Robotics

Ground Vehicle Navigation
Sensing, perception, and map building in ground vehicle operations (single and multiple vehicles). Guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) systems for autonomous or semi-autonomous ground vehicle systems. Driverless car navigation in GNSS-denied/challenged environments. Sensing for visual interfaces of driver-assistance systems. Requirements for ground vehicle GNC systems. Validation and verification of ground vehicle GNC systems. Algorithms and tools for global path planning and local obstacle avoidance.
Chair:
Dr. Hadi Wassaf, Volpe USDOT

Marine Vehicle Navigation
New concepts, advances, and algorithms related to surface and underwater navigation. Use of inertial navigation, terrain-based navigation, and geomagnetic fields in underwater vehicle navigation. Advances in acoustic devices for bathymetry, position location, and velocity measurement and their application to underwater vehicles. Bio-inspired underwater navigation. Development and application of new broadband technology sonar elements. Collaborative navigation of surface and unmanned underwater vehicles. Transponder localization and SLAM-type approaches for surface and underwater vehicle navigation.
Chairs:
Bryan Hoffman, NIWC Pacific
Dr. Andrew Hansen, USDOT/OST-R/Volpe Center

Space Navigation and Observation
Use of small satellites for space weather sensing, space situational awareness, space asset servicing, and space science measurements. Sensors for formation operation and operational environment sensing. Algorithms and hardware for guidance, navigation, and control for space vehicles. Novel methods for terrestrial testing of space navigation systems and algorithms. GPS-denied orbital navigation. Future space navigation applications. Ground monitoring and observation of space objects.
Chairs:
Dr. David Curtis, Air Force Institute of Technology
Kristen Michaelson, University of Texas at Austin

Robotic and Indoor Navigation
Navigation, localization, and map building by indoor robots. Collaborative robot navigation. Pose estimation for humans and robots. Human motion modeling. Semantics for robot navigation. Perception of the environment for humanoid robot operations. Cell phone-based navigation systems for personal and indoor navigation. Systems for emergency responder navigation. Applications of raw GNSS measurements from smart phones. Applications for health and well-being (medical devices and sports). 
Chairs:
Dr. Mohammed Khider, Google
Dr. Camila Francolin, Draper