Organized by Xiamen University, the IEEE/CSAA GNCC2018 was sponsored by Technical Committee on Guidance, Navigation and Control (TCGNC) (a committee that affiliated with Beihang University), the National Key Laboratory of Flight Vehicle Control Incorporation Technology of Beihang University, the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Chapter, Nanjing. The Technical Committee on Control Theory (TCCT) provided technical support.

You Yancheng, Executive Vice President of School of Aerospace Engineering, Xiamen University presided over the opening ceremony. Yao Junchen, Secretary General of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA), Lai Hongkai, Deputy Secretary of CPC, Xiamen University, and Wang Yingxun, President of Institute of Unmanned Systems of Beihang University and Director of TCGNC, delivered their speeches respectively. He You, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Jiao Zongxia, Director of the National Key Laboratory of Flight Vehicle Control Incorporation Technology of Beihang University attended the opening ceremony.

Four scholars were invited to make keynote reports respectively, including Major General Fan Bangkui, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Prof. Ben M. Chen, IEEE Fellow, Professor of National University of Singapore; Prof. Bengt Lennartson, IEEE Fellow, Professor of Chalmers University of Technology; and Prof. Chen Yangquan from the University of California.

Besides, the conference established the “Chief Designers Forum” of Guidance, Navigation and Control firstly. The engineers invited included Researcher Chen Yong, Deputy Chief Engineer of CSIC; Researcher Jiang Luhua, Deputy Chief Designer of SADRI; Researcher Sun Zhixiao, Deputy Director of Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute; Researcher Zhu Xueyao, Deputy Chief Designer of Xi'an Flight Automatic Control Research Institute. These practitioners of guidance, navigation and control exchanged views on the new challenges and opportunities facing the industry with their first-hand experiences.

The Conference drew a great number of experts and scholars from various countries such as China, the USA, Britain, Canada, Sweden, Singapore, and India. All papers accepted were shown through oral presentations and posters.

After several rounds of review, the program committee decided on the winners of LI Ming Best Paper Award, FENG Ru Best Paper Award, and Poster Best Paper Award. Yu Yingrong, a doctoral student from the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering of Beihang University won the FENG Ru Best Paper Award.

In addition, the conference set up "Young Scientist Forum" for the first time. Academician He You of the Chinese Academy of Engineering gave an invited talk for the Forum.

IEEE/CSAA GNCC has been successfully held for eight times. Currently, it is the largest Chinese academic conference in the field of guidance, navigation and control.

IEEE/CSAA GNCC2020 will be held in Tianjin from August 7 to August 9, 2020.

Reported by Tang Renlin and Wu Jun

Edited by Wen Zhiming

Translated by Li Siying