Will bring together ship designers, fleet owners, naval architects, classification societies, equipment manufacturers and maritime research organisations to discuss and debate the technological, regulatory and legal developments necessary to make autonomous and unmanned ships a reality.

The prospects for Geo IoT (Internet of Things) innovation in 2017 are exciting. Indoors, the new breed of radio technologies keeps its promise for RTLS (Real-Time Locating Systems). The UWB (Ultra-wideband) radio technology offers great opportunities to deploy high-accuracy low-cost indoor location in a broad range of applications. The Bluetooth LE – Beacons market is also finally taking off thanks in particular to Apple’s iBeacon and Google’s Eddystone protocols wide availability.

Meanwhile, the LPWA (Low-Power Wide-Area) networks wave keep flowing, allowing a true mass-market for low-cost long-range geo-aware IoT scenarios. High precision GNSS is also becoming the next big thing, boosted by the incoming Galileo-based location technologies and services. Low-cost, precision, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receivers will become a reality in the driverless cars, drones.

A call for speakers has been issued with the deadline of 5 February 2017.

The inaugural World Transport Convention (WTC, flyer here), hosted by China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), Ministry of Transport of China (MOT) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), will focus on comprehensive, smart, green and safe transport with The Belt & Road initiative as a key highlight. This event will cover many technical aspects of transport systems, ranging from policy to construction, from management to cross-cutting issues.

WTC aims to establish an international platform for transportation researchers, practitioners and government officials to share academic ideas and findings, to exchange successful practices and managerial trials, and to explore business opportunities and global cooperation.

IAIN Member, China Institute of Navigation, is one of the main organizing bodies for WTC 2017 and the co-chair of the Organizing Committee is Dr Youfang Huang, President of China Institute of Navigation and President of Shanghai Maritime University.

The theme of the Working Week reflects the continuous development around us. Tomorrow is only a short step away or maybe here already today. It is not so much a question of making things digital any more but rather using technology as a tool to add new dimensions to what we see around us.

OceanWise invites you to its free-to-attend Data Management & GIS Workshop, on Tuesday 23rd May 2017 at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George St, Edinburgh EH2 2PQ. The theme of the event – ‘Is poor data management putting your operations at risk?’ will resonate with many managers and practitioners dealing with geospatial and business data and information.

The Inland Marine Expo (IMX) is the annual trade show for the inland and intracoastal commercial marine transportation industry. We are here to serve: barge and towboat owners and operators, shallow draft ports and terminals, fleeting and harbor service providers, dredging companies, marine contractors, ferryboat operators, inland shipyards and repair facilities, as well as engineers, divers, surveyors, consultants and related government agencies.

TASP Lecture Series joint seminar with CST. This is the first seminar of three.

The second, ‘Unmanned Aircraft Systems: The Autonomy Challenge and Integration into the National Airspace’ begins 1400 on 23 May and the third and last, ‘On Collaborative Ground and Aerial Unmanned Multi-Robot Teams’ begins 1400 on 24 May.

Formulation of a game; Numerical procedures for differential games; Numerical study of intercept problems.

NOTE: Advanced registration is required by 2017-05-17 by e-mail to: tal.shima@technion.ac.il

The Galileo constellation progresses steadily, and so does our need for positions anywhere, at anytime, and for almost any purpose. Navigation once was an insiders’ business, and it has now become mainstream: by now everyone is using some kind of navigating aid. In this evolution, some of the mystique may have been lost, but developing navigation tools and processes appreciated by more people entails plenty of challenges. Our community is ready to tackle them and we are happy to contribute by organising another milestone event.

With a combination of landscapes, technology and lifestyle, the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale offers a great venue. The Swiss Institute of Navigation is looking forward to welcoming you all.

Note: The deadline for submitting a paper to ENC 2017 has been extended to 30 January 2017 (hard deadline).

We are pleased to announce GSC’17 – the annual meeting of graduate students in the field of Control and Systems Theory (in a broad sense).
Continuing the tradition of previous years, this meeting is intended as a casual platform for exchanging ideas among students and senior faculty from various institutions in Israel. It aims at offering graduate students a stage for sharing insight and excitement about their research in front of a professional audience. The meeting also gives students a unique opportunity to learn about the work of their peers, get acquainted with the Israeli faculty in their field, and meet potential industrial employers. Additionally, GSC events serve a meeting place between academia and industry.

The traditional and unique RIN/Baška GNSS Conference aims to gather worldwide experts in satellite navigation and related disciplines, and focuses on GNSS resilience and GNSS applications development. The unique environment of Baška, its natural resources, and rich history and culture, combined with friendly hospitality, will again create an inspiring atmosphere for ideas and knowledge exchange, well known to those who attended the previous conferences in the series.

Along with the history of IAPH, Indonesia has played an active role as member country of the organization. It is the aim of the organisers that through this important event delegates will be able to share experiences in implementing the country’s development and management in port and maritime business. It is expected that the 30th IAPH World Ports Conference will be attend by some 1000 delegates including government officials, operators and association who are experts in the field of port, logistics, and maritime business, to share experiences and discuss issues faced by port officials globally such as green port and port technology as well as development of ports in each country.

A global cooperative development of Positioning, Navigation and Timing technology and policy.

Navitech is the only specialized exhibition for satellite navigation in Russia. Being the main trade show for navigation industry professionals, it brings together leading Russian and foreign developers and manufacturers of navigation equipment and technologies, services and software including mapping applications, shows relevant global trends, and determines development of the national market of satellite navigation.

TUS Expo is the first fully integrated European Unmanned Systems industry trade show and conference, attracting a wide range of industry stakeholders. Secure your space at this world-class event for access to potential clients and business partners from Europe and abroad.

The conference will focus on two technology themes that are currently enjoying strong investment in both civil and military applications, with large numbers of SMEs in the value chain, but where dual-use priorities are not systematically identified. The themes are:

– Maritime information services, including satellite applications, maritime Internet of Things, cyber security and dual-use data analytics and web services;

– Sensor platforms and autonomy, including marine autonomous systems, energy storage for endurance, sensors and smart sensor networks.

Climate change is an important and growing focus of attention. The Paris Agreement on climate change, which came into force on 4 November 2016, is an ambitious international agreement that aims to combat climate change and adapt to its effects. Coming years are likely to see massive efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and move to low carbon solutions across all sectors: navigation infrastructure is no exception. Notwithstanding the Paris Agreement, however, it is also widely agreed that continuing change in certain climate parameters is now unavoidable. Resilience will need to be strengthened and waterborne transport infrastructure will need to adapt.

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Before appropriate mathematical tools of analysis had been developed, SAC was considered to be just a modest version of the standard model reference adaptive control (MRAC). Further developments showed that SAC techniques can readily be applied to such applications as robots, airplanes, missiles, satellites, fine motion control, etc. Various drawbacks related to classical MRAC have been addressed and eliminated and conditions needed for robust stability have been significantly mitigated. Recent developments in nonlinear systems stability analysis tools lead to clear proofs of SAC stability in realistic
environments.

Shipping2030 is a different kind of event, designed to provide the strategic platform the industry needs to come together and have a genuine discussion on its digital strategy.

The African Ports Expansion Conference will congregate major stakeholders in the maritime industry including government authorities, port authorities, contractors, technology providers, suppliers of port equipment, consultants and more as they discuss their biggest challenges and debate best-practice methodologies from 20-21 March 2017 in Mombasa, Kenya.

Over the past several years, AtoN technology has progressed significantly. The workshop will provide opportunities to review the innovative work that has been undertaken by IALA members within areas such as light source technology and applications, sustainable AtoN provision, energy generation and storage technology and management, as well as the design and management of AtoN Systems.

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– Implementation of the European Global Satellite Navigation System Galileo

– Modernization of the US Global Positioning System (GPS III)

– Status and modernization of the Russian Global Satellite Navigation System GLONASS

– Developments of new global and regional systems like the Chinese Beidou (BDS), the Japanese QZSS and the Indian IRNSS

– Vulnerability of GNSS, why it can fail after all

– From Iridium to e-Loran – GNSS in need for Backup?

– Galileo after the Brexit

– Civil use of the Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS)

– Legal aspects on selected topics in the field of GNSS

– Network-based solutions for GNSS Backup

– Innovation in SMEs

– Security issues of applications for Augmented Reality

– GNSS based Gaming

– High precision GNSS on the smartphone

– Platforms for new applications: Google Android N, Swift/Piksi

European Shipping Week is intended to be a platform where policy-makers from the main EU institutions will meet and engage with European shipowners and other stakeholders from the shipping sector. The focus is on shipping, in all its different aspects.

The week-long series of high level events will centre on a major conference discussing the key issues currently facing European and global shipping as well as a gala dinner, both taking place on 1 March 2017.

This week will bring together the major players in the shipping industry with the primary aim of promoting the strengths and the importance of European and global shipping to legislators in Brussels, such as the European Commission, European Parliament and the Council of Ministers and is regarded as a unique opportunity to meet the heads of leading shipping companies in Europe.

Purpose of the workshop is to provide the VTS Committee with proposals, concepts and examples of best practice that can be used in the development of guidance on VTS communications.

The workshop would facilitate the exchange of best practices, ideas and knowledge amongst a wide range of VTS professionals and those from other sectors and contribute to influencing the formulation and development of IALA documentation on VTS communications.

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