The Draper Scholars Program emphasizes empowering students in key research areas to make the greatest impact. We encourage applicants to align their research with these topics.
Assured Position, Navigation and Timing
Draper has been active in the research and fielding of assured positioning, navigation, and timing (APNT) for multiple decades. We have worked on, developed, and demonstrated APNT systems and solutions that span celestial navigation to chip-scale atomic clock timing to underwater navigation modes. Draper’s APNT portfolio covers anytime, anywhere, and any platform navigation. We continue to seek cutting-edge ideas and technologies that drive the state of the art forward.
Technical Point of Contact
Dr. Almir Davis
adavis@draper.com
adavis@draper.com
Research Interests
Precision Sensors
- High performance, low SWaP-C, ruggedization-friendly
Assured PNT (APNT)
- Technology: MagNav, GravNav, Celestial Nav, Vision-Aided Nav, Acoustic-Based Nav, SoOp
- Precision clocks, timing, time transfer (optical and RF)
- APNT systems
Data Fusion
- Algorithms for processing sensor data
- Algorithms and concepts for fusing sensor data
- Applications that can take advantage of PNT data fusion
AI for PNT
- AI concepts to enhance navigation performance
- AI concepts to enhance performance of PNT sensors
- AI-optimized novel sensors
PNT-Enhancing Materials, Simulation Tools
- Novel materials for precision sensors
- PNT simulation and visualization tools
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