Past Meetings

2017-2018

DATE LOCATION TOPIC
Sept 14, 2017 Northrop Grumman  Speaker: Scott Pierce
Oct 12, 2017 Northrop Grumman  Speaker: Don Venable
Nov 9, 2017 Northrop Grumman  Speaker: Ryan Watson
Dec 2017 N/A  None
Jan 11, 2018 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled
Feb 8, 2018 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled
March 8, 2018 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled
April 12, 2018 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled
May 10, 2018 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled
June 2018 TBD  Annual end of year Banquet

2016-2017

DATE LOCATION TOPIC
Sept 8, 2016 Northrop Grumman  Speaker: John Raquet
Oct 13, 2016 Northrop Grumman  Speaker: Mikel Miller
Nov 10, 2016 Northrop Grumman  Speaker: Chris Bartone
Dec 2016 N/A  None
Jan 2017 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled
February 2017 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled
March 2017 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled
April 2017 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled
May 2017 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled
June 2017 TBD  Annual end of year Banquet

2015-2016

DATE LOCATION TOPIC
Sept 17, 2015 Northrop Grumman  Ron Storm of the Perduco Group briefed us on building trust in human interfaces and the how that is important for navigation systems and displays, especially in an age when the human is less and less in the navigation loop.
Oct 15, 2015 Northrop Grumman Speaker: Clark Taylor (AFRL)Significant advances have been achieved over the past few decades in the ability to use cameras to determine the location of the camera or of objects it is observing. Like GPS, these algorithms are capable of estimating locations with relatively high accuracy. Unlike GPS, these vision-aided algorithms are unable to return accurate estimates of their own uncertainty. In this talk, we will discuss some of the basic assumptions that are required to accurately estimate uncertainty, whether these assumptions are valid in the context of vision-aided algorithms, and how we can deal with the violation or preservation of these assumptions to achieve accurate uncertainty estimates with visual algorithms.
Nov 12, 2015 MTSI  Speaker: Ben Downing (MTSI)
Ben gave an overview of his research to create error characterizations benchmarks across different receiver models as these new multi-GNSS receivers come to market.
Dec 17, 2015 Northrop Grumman  Speaker: Grace Gao (University of Illinois)
Jan 14, 2016 Northrop Grumman  Speakers: Phil Bohun and Andrew Shepherd
Our speakers, co-owners of the company Section7, detailed their 4-D flight visualization architecture and the results of training students to create flight plans with the tools.
February 11, 2016 Northrop Grumman  Speaker: Jorge Diaz (AFIT)
Jorge detailed his research to correct for the ephemerides of satellites used in celestial navigation.
March 10, 2016 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled: Sean Calhoun (Cal Analytics)
April 14, 2016 Northrop Grumman Scheduled
May 12, 2016 Northrop Grumman  Scheduled
June 2016 TBD  Annual end of year Banquet

 

2014-2015

ION Banquet
The Group Celebrating another successful year!
Date Location Topic
June 18, 2015 Wright Patterson Club, WPAFB, Ohio  The dreariest June in Ohio history couldn’t dampen our spirits as we watched amateurs sink clutch putts and enjoyed delicious german chocolate cake after a hearty meal.  Tom Pestak and Brian Roadruck were re-elected Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively, with newcomer Joe “Rage” Curro taking over the Secretarial duties.  Not unlike Michael Jordan, Boyd Holsapple came out of a short treasurer retirement.  We expect him to change his number from 45 to 23 and lead us back to the promised land.
May 14, 2015 Northrop Grumman  Meeting canceled due to scheduling conflicts.
April 9, 2015 Northrop Grumman  Scott Pierce presented his Doctoral research which proposes to leverage the globally available and highly-accurate reference points of stars to improve position estimates of a ground vehicle or UAV through observations of illuminated satellites using a star tracking camera.
March 12, 2015 Northrop Grumman  Sanjeev Gunawardena presented his findings on signal deformation in GNSS signals caused by transversal surface acoustical wave (SAW) intermediate frequency (IF) filters that can impress additional and somewhat peculiar signal deformations that also vary as a function of pseudorandom noise (PRN) code.
February 12, 2015 Northrop Grumman  Captain Aaron Canciani presented his research on Navigation using the Earth’s magnetic anomaly field, which is globally available at all times. He presented a navigation framework which uses the Earth’s magnetic anomaly field as a navigation signal to aid an inertial navigation system (INS) in an aircraft.
January 8, 2015 Northrop Grumman  Sean Calhoun of CAL Analytics, currently supporting the development of Airborne Sense and Avoid technology at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate spoke to us about Airborne SAA (ABSAA) system for detecting, tracking and avoiding both cooperative and non-cooperative intruder aircraft for UAS. He presented some preliminary results from two surveillance performance sensitivity studies performed in order to develop a relationship between surveillance performance and resulting safety impact to the NAS.
November 13, 2014 Northrop Grumman Dr. Jason Gross from the West Virginia University will be presenting an overview of his ongoing projects at WVU, including a small UAV close formation flight project.
October 9, 2014 YEI Technologies, Portsmouth, OH  We journeyed to Portsmouth, OH to visit Paul Yost and see the work he is doing with MEMS inertial sensors.  We toured their manufacturing facility and got to demo PrioVR – their virtual reality video game suit.
September 11, 2014 Northrop Grumman  Jennifer Hebert and Shawna from PreTalen Ltd presented PANACEA: Automating GNSS Receiver Testing.

2011-2012

Date Location Topic
June X, 2012 Wright Patterson Club, WPAFB, Ohio
May X, 2012 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio
April X, 2012 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
March X, 2012 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio
February X, 2012 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio
January X, 2012 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio
November X, 2011 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio
October 14, 2011 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio
September X, 2011 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio

2010-2011

Date Location Topic
June 9, 2011 Wright Patterson Club, WPAFB, Ohio This meeting was the annual dinner which included election of new officers, the yearly putting competition, and a door prize giveaway.
May 12, 2011 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio The Dayton section visited the engineering facilities at Miami University.
April 14, 2011 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio LtCol Steve Ross, a PhD student at AFIT, presented his research on the autonomous landing of a quadrotor UAV on a wire.
March 17, 2011 The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio The Dayton section attended a GPS Workshop hosted by The Ohio State University.  The guest speakers were Dr. John W. Betz, Mr. Edward H. Martin, and Mr. Anthony Russo.
February 10, 2011 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Lt Halit Oktay presented the work he is doing at AFIT which augments GPS with airborne pseudolites to improve the navigation solution when a limited number of satellites are in view.
January 13, 2011 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Austin Smith of MTSi spoke about research he worked on, in which inertial and GPS augmentation systems could be configured and model using a MATLAB simulation to estimate performance characteristics.
November 18, 2010 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Eric Vinande of AFRL/RYRN spoke about research he conducted at the University of Colorado, Boulder; where urban canyon GPS related challenges were overcame using an inexpensive MEMS inertial sensor.
October 14, 2010 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Major Jeremiah Shockley, a PhD student at AFIT and former Assistant Director for Operations at the 746th Test Squadron, spoke about his navigation systems testing experience with the 746th. Also known as the Central Inertial and GPS Test Facility (CIGTF), the 746th Test Squadron is DoD’s designated lead test organization chartered to test and evaluate Global Positioning System (GPS) user equipment (UE) and integrated GPS based guidance and navigation systems.
September 10, 2010 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Larrell Walters, Director of the Institute for the Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology (IDCAST), presented developments in a product known as I23D. This software is able to use single camera video from a ground vehicle or UAV to reconstruct 3D surfaces of an area in real-time.

2009-2010

Date Location Topic
June 25, 2010 Wright Patterson Club, WPAFB, Ohio This meeting was the annual dinner which included election of new officers, the yearly putting competition, and a door prize giveaway.
May 13, 2010 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Gordon Rouse of Honeywell Aerospace spoke to the section about developing inertial technologies within Honeywell.
April 23, 2010 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio The Dayton Section visited Ohio University. The day included student presentations, a tour of Stocker Center, a tour of the newly constructed Academic and Research Center, lunch at Lui Lui’s, and a tour of the Avionics Engineering Center’s McFarland Building and Hanger at the OU airport.
March 11, 2010 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Maj Ken Fisher, a professor of electrical engineering at AFIT, spoke about his time in the field of air-to-air weapons test with a focus on unmanned test aircraft.
February 11, 2010 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Dr. Frank van Graas of Ohio University discussed his ION Congressional Fellowship at NASA Headquarters and DHS. ION President, Dr. Mike Miller, was in attendance and spoke about the state of the ION at the national level.
January 14, 2010 El Rancho Grande, Fairborn, Ohio This luncheon was a social outing. ION business was discussed, however there was no speaker.
November 12, 2009 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Dr. Dave Doman, Senior Aerospace Engineer, with the Air Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory spoke on design strategies of flapping-wing micro air vehicles.
October 8, 2009 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Dr. Jacob Campbell, Electronics Engineer, with the Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory spoke on cold-atom technology for extremely precise inertial navigation systems.
September 10, 2009 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Dr. Andrei Shkel of DARPA and University of California Irvine spoke on micro-technology for position, navigation, and timing systems.

2008-2009

Date Location Topic
June 18, 2009 Wright Patterson Club, WPAFB, Ohio This event was our annual dinner. The evening included the 2009-2010 local section officer elections, announcement of the ION scholarship winners, a putting contest, and door prize giveaways.
May 14, 2009 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Dr. Mikel Miller, ION President and Technical Director of the Advanced Guidance Division of the Munitions Directorate of Air Force Research Labs spoke about his experiences as a USAF officer, civil servant, and ION Fellow. He also spoke about the state of ION at the national level.
April 16, 2009 The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio The Dayton section visited The Ohio State University. The visit included student presentations, lunch, a tour of the ElectroScience lab, and a demonstration of SPIN lab capabilities.
March , 2009 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Capt. Jason Crosby spoke on navigation using signals of opportunity such as TV signals, AM/FM radio signals, and lightning strikes.
February 12, 2009 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Capt. Will Storms, a master’s student at AFIT, spoke about his thesis research. His presentation discussed the use of magnetic field maps to aid inertial navigation systems.
January 15, 2009 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Andrew O’Brien, a Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University, presented his work on adaptive antenna arrays for precision GNSS applications.
November 4, 2008 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio The Dayton section visited Miami University. The visit included student presentations, lunch, a tour of Miami’s new engineering building.
October , 2008 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio
September 25, 2008 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio 1Lt Casey Miller, an Executive Officer with the Sensors Directorate of Air Force Research Labs, presented the ION’s new high school outreach program, the Mini-Urban Challenge.

2007-2008

Date Location Topic
June 26, 2008 Wright Patterson Club, WPAFB, Ohio This event was our annual dinner. The evening included the 2008-2009 local section officer elections, announcement of the ION scholarship winners, a putting contest, and door prize giveaways.
May 16, 2008 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio The Dayton section visited Ohio University. The visit included student presentations, lunch, and tours of engineering building, the newly constructed Avionics Engineering Center’s McFarland building, and the AEC’s hanger.
April 10, 2008 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Mr. Hartman, a staff scientist for Honeywell, spoke on the challenges of underwater navigation. His talk included a discussion of a multi-sensor prototype system under development at Honeywell to meet these challenges.
March 13, 2008 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Dr. Jade Morton, a professor at Miami University, spoke on the effects of the ionosphere on GPS performance.
February 14, 2008 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Dr. Andrey Soloviev, a Senior Research Engineer at the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Center, spoke on multi-sensor (GPS/Laser/Inertial) integration techniques for navigation in challenging indoor environments.
January 10, 2008 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio 2Lt Brendan O’Neal, a Navigation Analysis with the Sensors Directorate of Air Force Research Labs, spoke on near field electromagnetic ranging technology and its applications in underground and indoor environments.
November 8, 2007 Hope Hotel, WPAFB, Ohio Seebany Datta-Barua, a Ph.D. candidate in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, spoke on modeling ionospheric storms using ground and space-based GPS data.

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