EuroGNC Origins and Concept
The CEAS Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control or “EuroGNC” an applied conference with strong aeronautics and space orientation. Non-aerospace applications with similar challenges and modeling approaches are welcome (e.g. automotive, robotics, wind energy, underwater vehicles). Theoretical works that are applicable to the aeronautics and space problems within the scope of EuroGNC are also welcome. Please see the full scope of the conference on the topics page.
EuroGNC was created in 2011 to foster the exchanges within the European GNC community and between the European GNC community and the rest of the world. At the time, it was inspired by the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control and co-located conferences (especially the Atmospheric Flight Mechanics and Modeling and Simulation Technologies conferences), which were integrated into the large AIAA forums since 2014.
In constrast to the huge AIAA forums with several thousands participants and very wide scope, the objective has always been to keep the conference to a fairly small size and a fairly narrow scope. EuroGNC conferences have typically between 100 and 150 participants and provide excellent value for money for the participants with lunches, dinner, etc. being included in the reasonable registration price. With everything happening on-site, participants do not disperse at lunch time, but can continue their technical discussions and networking instead.
The next conference will be held in the Spring of 2026 in Madrid, Spain (see Key Dates page).
Previous Editions
The first EuroGNC conference was organized in Munich, Germany in April 2011. The conference was held every two year, since except in 2021, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Berlin team to postpone the conference to 2022.
Here is the complete list of the previous editions:
– 2024: Bristol, United Kingdom
– 2022: Berlin, Germany
– 2019: Milano, Italy
– 2017: Warsaw, Poland
– 2015: Toulouse, France
– 2013: Delft, The Netherlands
– 2011: Munich, Germany
The papers of the different editions have been published with different models. A selection of the best papers were published in Springer books until the 2017 edition. Since the 2022 edition a new open access model with paper published online in CC-BY 4.0. The papers from the 2019 edition were put online whenever the publication authorisation was signed from the authors (various options had been provided). If you are author of a paper from the 2019 editions, which is not online yet, and would like to provide retroactively your authorisation, please contact the CEAS GNC TC chair (cf. contact page).
Please check the Paper Library out for all details and for accessing the papers that are available online.