The event will be held between March 16 and 18 at the Fort Worth Convention Center.

There will be no pre-qualification event and the trials are open to all USA Taekwondo members.

Seeding for the trials will be based on performances at the 2016 USA Taekwondo National Championships.

Any athlete not seeded from the National Championships will be randomly seeded for the trials.

The 16-member team selected from the trials will compete at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships in Muju in South Korea between June 24 and 30.

A level one coaching seminar is due to take place on March 16 along with a technical meeting.

Two days of competition then follow on March 17 and 18.

Rule changes approved at the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) General Assembly in Burnaby in Canada in November, in order to address a number of issues raised following the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, will be used during the trials.

WTF President Chungwon Choue admitted that "many members of the global taekwondo family had complained" following Rio 2016.

The sport’s membership highlighted the over-use of front leg kicks and the Protector Scoring System (PSS) as two of the main problems.

As a result, the WTF agreed to implement a number of alterations, including competitors being awarded an extra point - from one to two - for kicks to the body, due to fully come into effect at the 2017 World Championships in Muju.

The WTF has also accepted an extension to the margin at which matches can be ended, from 12 points to 20.

The minus half-point penalty will be scrapped, leaving gam-jeom -minus one point - as the only penalty of its kind.

It has been proposed that automatic penalties be removed for pushing, allowing for competitors to push and kick.

The WTF hope this will encourage more combination attacks, with some within the sport criticising some of the bouts at the Olympics in the Brazilian city for lacking action and being too passive.

Those wishing to register for the trials can do so here.