On May 28-30, 2001, the State Research Center of Russia - Central Scientific and Research Institute Elektropribor (CSRI) supported by the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Problems of Motion Control and Navigation, the Academy of Navigation and Motion Control (Russia), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA), the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (USA), the French Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the French Institute of Navigation, held the 8th Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems.

    49 papers including 27 plenary and 22 poster papers were presented at the Conference.

    The sessions of the Conference were arranged on three topics:
   "Inertial systems and sensors" - 24 papers,
   "Integrated systems" - 17 papers,
   "Satellite systems" - 8 papers.

    The Conference Program Committee recommended 14 best papers to be published in the journal Gyroscopy and Navigation.

    The Conference languages were Russian and English with simultaneous interpretation.

    Specialists from 17 countries took part in the Conference: Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iran, Italy, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, the South African Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, USA.

    The Conference involved 166 conferees including 70 specialists from 40 foreign companies and 96 specialists from 41 Russian organizations.

    The program of the Conference is available at http://www.elektropribor.spb.ru (Section "Conferences").

   The Conference Proceedings were published: "8th Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems", 28-30 May, 2001, Russia, St. Petersburg (ISBN 5-900780-31-7) - edition in English.

    The Conference Proceedings can be purchased by making request at our address.

CSRI "Elektropribor"
30, Malaya Posadskaya st.,
St. Petersburg,197046
Russia.
Phone 7(812) 232 59 15.
Fax 7(812) 232 33 76.
E-mail: elprib@online.ru

   The regular 9th Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems will be held on May 27-29, 2002.

   The information on the Conference organization and holding is available at http://www.elektropribor.spb.ru (Section "Conferences").
 

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Speech of the Chairman of the Program and Organizing Committees, Director of the State Research Center of Russia - CSRI Elektropribor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences  V.G. Peshekhonov

 
 

Paper presentation of the Deputy Chief Designer of Rocket Space Center Energia, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.N. Branets

 
 

Paper presentation of Gabriel Elkaim, Research Assistant at Stanford University, PhD Candidate

 
 

The plenary session