Short-Courses

Selected short-courses taught

“Alternative Navigation Methods Exploiting Integration with Inertial Sensors,” IEEE/ION PLANS 2018, Monterey, CA, April 2018.

“Reliable Navigation for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS),” 36th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, September 2017.

“Formal Methods for Aviation Software Design and Certification,” (with Gordon Stewart) Consortium of Ohio Universities on Navigation & Timekeeping (COUNT) Short Courses, Dayton Ohio, May 24-26, 2017

“Vision- and Laser-based Navigation,” International Seminars on Positioning and Navigation Technologies "Courses for curious minds”, Toulouse, France, 16 May 2017.

“Laboratory Vision- and Laser-based Navigation,” International Seminars on Positioning and Navigation Technologies "Courses for curious minds”, Toulouse, France, 17 May 2017.

“Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Guidance, Navigation, & Control (GNC),” Pacific PNT, Waikiki, HI, May 1, 2017.

"GNSS and Inertial for Autonomous and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems," 35th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Sacramento, CA, September 2016.

"Surveillance and Collision Avoidance for NextGen." 35th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Sacramento, CA, September 2016.

“Principles of Satellite Navigation – GNSS Principles and Structure,” International GNSS Seminar on "GNSS Courses for curious minds,” 8 May 2016, Beijing, China.

“Propagation Channel: Payload, Ionosphere and Troposphere,” International GNSS Seminar on "GNSS Courses for curious minds,” 8 May 2016, Beijing, China.

“Propagation Channel: RF Front-End, Multipath, and Antenna,” International GNSS Seminar on "GNSS Courses for curious minds,” 10 May 2016, Beijing, China.

“Alternative Navigation Methods Exploiting Integration with Inertial Sensors,” IEEE/ION PLANS 2016, Savannah, GA, April 2016.

“Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Ground and Aerial Robots,” Consortium of Ohio Universities on Navigation & Timekeeping (COUNT) Short Courses, Dayton Ohio, May 20th 2016

"GNSS and Inertial for Autonomous and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems," 34th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2015.

"Surveillance and Collision Avoidance for NextGen." 34th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Prague, Czech Republic (with Dr. W. Schuster), September 2015.

"Digital Avionics Systems," 34th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2015.    

“Collision Avoidance, Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems for UAS,” IEEE/ION PLANS 2016, Savannah, GA,  April 11th 2016.

“Alternative Navigation Methods Exploiting Integration with Inertial Sensors,” IEEE/ION PLANS 2016, Savannah, GA,  April 11th 2016.

"GNSS and Inertial for Unmanned Aerial Systems." 33rd AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, USA (with Dr. J. L. Farrell), October 2014.

“Alternative Navigation Methods Exploiting Integration with Inertial Sensors,” IEEE/ION PLANS 2014, Monterey, CA,  April 23rd 2014.

"Surveillance and Collision Avoidance for NextGen." 32nd AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Syracuse, NY, USA (with Dr. J. L. Farrell), October 2013.

"Synthetic and Enhanced Vision Systems." 32nd AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Syracuse, NY, USA (with Dr. E. Theunissen), October 2013.

"GNSS-based Applications for NextGen Operations," 32nd AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Syracuse, NY, USA (with Dr. J. L. Farrell), October 2013.

"Software Engineering for Safety-Critical Software," Week-long short-course to Northrop Grumman, Inc., October 2012.

"Digital Avionics Systems," 30th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Seattle, WA, October 2011.

 “GNSS Interference,” ION GNSS 2011, Portland, OR, September 20th, 2011.

“Coherent GPS/Inertial Integration,” Rockwell-Collins International, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Ohio. August 4th 2010 (with F. van Graas).

"Aiding Techniques for Integration of Ladar with Inertial Navigation Systems " IEEE/ION PLANS 2010, Palm Springs, CA, May 2010 (with Andrey Soloviev).

“Incorporating GPS Technology into Commercial and Military Applications” SPIE - Defense and Security Symposium 2010, Orlando, Florida, April 8th , 2010.

“Software Engineering in Safety Critical Systems,” (with Nuno Silva and Juan Clua) for the China Manned Space Engineering Office, Beijing, China, June 2008.

“Laser/Inertial Navigation,” at the Consortium of Ohio Universities on Navigation & Timekeeping (COUNT) Short Courses, Columbus, Ohio, June 25, 2008.

“Critical Software Quality Assurance: Aerospace and Industrial Applications,” (with Dr. Joseph Fuertes), Organized by CTAE and Fundacio UPC (Technical University of Catalonia), Barcelona, February 2009.

“Introduction to GPS – Its Applications and Timekeeping Aspects,” Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Dallas, TX, October 21, 2007

“The Basics of GPS,” (with Dr. Mikel M. Miller), Institute of Navigation Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 24 April, 2007

“GPS Computations I – GPS Receiver Design,” at the ION GPS/GNSS 2003 conference, 8 September 2003