2023 MagNav Workshop

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ION MagNav Workshop Webpage
IEEE/ION PLANS Conference Webpage
IEEE/ION PLANS Tutorials

Co-Chairs:

• Aaron Nielsen, AFIT, ANT Center
• Rick Saltus, NOAA, National Centers for Environmental Information

Presentations

• Introduction (8:30 am - 8:45 am)
  

• Magnetic anomaly maps (8:45 am - 10:00 am)

  • Earth Anomaly Maps (Rick Saltus, University of Colorado)
    

• Magnetic Measurements and Sensors (10:00 am - 11:00 am)

  • Sensors, Aaron Nielsen (AFIT)
  • Demonstration of Vector Magnetic Navigation using an NV-Diamond Quantum Sensor (Linh Pham, MIT-LL)
  • PNI’s Magneto-Inductive Technology (Jay Trojan and Joe Miller, PNI)
  • Exercise: Sensor placement
    

• Break (11:00 am - 11:15 am)

• MagNav Tutorial (90 minutes) (11:15 am - 12:45 pm)

  • IEEE/ION PLANS 2023 Tutorials
  • MagNav Tutorial

• Lunch (12:45 pm - 2:15 pm)

• Compensation and Calibation (2:15 pm - 3:30 pm)

  • Exercise: Calibration
  • Exercise: Vector vs. Scalar
  • Compensation and Calibration, Aaron Nielsen (AFIT)
  • Machine-learning based magnetic navigation (Ying-Cheng Lai, Arizona State University)
  • Knowledge-informed Approaches for MagNav (Albert Gnadt, MIT)

• Break (3:30 pm - 3:45 pm)

• Navigation Algorithms (3:45 pm - 4:30 pm)

  • Exercise: Map matching
  • Navigable Map Metrics, Aaron Nielsen (AFIT)
  • Navigation algorithms, Aaron Nielsen (AFIT)

• Wrap up, Aaron Nielsen (AFIT) (4:30 pm - 5:00 pm)

• Social at Salty Seal Brewpub (5:00 pm - 8:00 pm)

Exercises

• Sensor placement
• Vector vs. Scalar
• Calibration
• Map matching

Additional information

• Notation
• References

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