Wednesday, June 11
8:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Poster Presentations
|
PLUS
Patrick Marshall, AFRL/RYAT, Matt VanBaren, Dr. John
Wood and Dr. Dan Jensen, US Air Force Academy |
Real Time Mission Monitor: A Situational Awareness
Tool for Conducting Airborne Field Experiments
Dr. Richard Blakeslee and Michael Goodman, NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center, John Hall, Philip Parker and
Yubin He, University of Alabama Huntsville |
Algorithm Acceleration Across Heterogeneous
Processing Element
Alan Commike, Quantum3D |
Network-Centric Positioning Technology for Interoperable
Unmanned Vehicle Systems
Dr. Jeff Fayman and Dr. Lydia Bock, Geodetics, Inc. |
Precision Engagement with Unmanned Air Systems in
Complex Urban Air Flows
Dr. Bohdan Cybyk, David Drewry, Timothy Frey and Jack
Keane, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
Accurate Trajectory Tracking for Land Vehicles Using Novel
Nonlinear Controller
Vladimir Djapic, SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego, and
Dr. Jay Farrell, University of California, Riverside |
Countering the Maritime Threat Using Autonomous Systems
Jonathan Pethen, John Morrison and Steve Ray, QinetiQ |
An Overview of the NASA SIERRA UAS
Matthew Fladeland, Randy Berthold, Steve Dunagan and
Jim Brass, NASA Ames Research Center, Geoff Bland,
NASA Wallops Flight Facility, and Lesli Monforton, Naval
Research Laboratory |
Model-Based Design Workflow for Large Safety-Critical Systems: A Discussion Regarding Model Architecture
Mike Anthony and Jon Friedman, The MathWorks |
Micro Air Vehicles that Perch: Concepts and Prototypes
for MAVs with Low Energy Expenditure States
Dr. John Wood, Chris Perry, Jason Parcus, Brandon Hua,
Dakota Olsen, Ken Pedersen, Capt Mike Anderson and
Dr. Dan Jensen, US Air Force Academy |
Architecting an Integrated Reconfigurable Application
Platform for UXVs
Dr. Rajive Joshi, Real-Time Innovations, Inc. |
Vision-guided Autonomous Quad-rotor Helicopter Flight
Stabilization and Control
Dr. D. J. Lee, Spencer Fowers, Beau Tippetts and James
Archibald, Brigham Young University |
Collaboration for Multi-Vehicle Mission Planning
Dr. Michael Leen, OR Concepts Applied |
Online Path Planning on a Sliding Fixed Size Fixed-Resolution Grid Map
Elizabeth Liao, Scott Niekum and Mark Ollis,
Applied Perception, a Foster-Miller Company |
Regulation of Unmanned Aircraft In Offshore and
International Airspace Operations
Douglas Marshall and Benjamin Trapnell, University of
North Dakota |
Fast Jet Control of Multiple UAVs
Dr. Jon Platts, J.A. Kemsley and D. Richards, QinetiQ |
Flight Simulator for UAV
Ing. Endri Rachman and Radzuan Razali, School of
Aerospace Engineering - Universiti Sains Malaysia |
Software for Effective Delivery of Net-Centric Information to
UAV Operators
Jeff Collier, Dominic Bartek, John Miles and John Hudson,
SYTRONICS, Inc. |
Supplemental Information Displays (SIDs) in Uninhabited
Air Vehicle (UAV) Ground Control Stations
Dr. William Marshak, Jeff Collier and John Reising,
SYTRONICS, Inc. and Michael J. Findler, SYTRONICS,
Inc. and Wright State Research Institute |
Weaponized Unmanned Surface Vessel for
Anti-Submarine Warfare
David Toth, Naval Undersea Warfare Center |
A Real-time Electro-Optical Sensor System Simulator
for UAV Sense and Avoid Development
Leo Wong, Atul A. Phadnis, Omid Shakernia and
Won-Zon Chen, Northrop Grumman Corporation,
and Bonnie Schwartz, Air Force Research Laboratory |
Wednesday, June 11
Oral Presentations
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. |
| Four concurrent tracks as follows: (1) Air Vehicle Operations,
(2) Cross-Platform Communication, (3) Ground Vehicle Missions I
and (4) Maritime Autonomy |
| Air Vehicle Operations |
| 9:30 – 10:00 |
Opening The Airspace For UAVs
Nigel Mills, QinetiQ, Maureen Mccue, BAE Systems, Nick
Miller, Thales, Richard Bourne, FRL, Gary Clayton, EADS, Mark
Jefferies, Rolls-Royce and Dr. Andrew Lucas, Agent Oriented
Software |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Army UAS Systems: Technology that is Shaping the Future of Modern Warfare
COL Donald Hazelwood, UAS Project Office |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
Broad Area Maritime Surveillance
CAPT Robert Dishman, NAVAIR PMA-262 |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
USMC and Shadow
Maj Kenneth Briggs, OPNAV N88, LtCol P.J. Kerr, APW-81
and Vic Wigfall, IPTL PMA 263, Lt Col Chris Patten, APW-81 |
| Cross-Platform Communication |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Achieving UAS Interoperability and Networking
through Common Datalink Solutions
Richard Lober, Cubic Corporation |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Modeling Environmental Uncertainty in Ground Robot Navigation
Ryan Meuth, Paul Robinette and David Wunsch, Missouri University of Science and Technology |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
Wearable Control and Communications System for use with
UAVs, UGVs and UGSs
Dr. Hagen Schempf, Todd Graham, Joseph Martin and George
Skoptsov, CMU |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
Development of a Scalable Common Modular Control System for
Air and Ground Unmanned Vehicles
Geoff Butler, Nigel Cox, Rex Helton, Greg McDermott, Andy
McKenzie and Andy Wright, BAE Systems |
| Ground Vehicle Missions I |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Use of the Lightweight Reconnaissance Vehicle (LRV) for
Police Actions
David Timian, Andrew Poulter and Laurie McIntosh, ARA and
Lt. Robert Evans, Vermont State Police |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Hybrid Locomotion of Sliding and Tracking Robot for Uneven
Terrain to Detect Land Mines
Babu Natesan, G. Kannan, N. Seetharaman and R.
Alexander, Combat Vehicles Research & Development
Establishment, DRDO, Min.of Defence |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
Remote Operation of the Black Knight Unmanned
Combat Vehicle
Jean-Sebastien Valois, John Bares and David P. Rice, National
Robotics Engineering Center, Timothy J. Pasko, BAE Systems
and Herman Herman, National Robotics Engineering Center |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
Validating the Performance of an Autonomous Car
Michael Clark, Carnegie Mellon-ISR, Dr. Chris Urmson and
Robert Bittner, Carnegie Mellon, Robotics Institute, Dr. Sam
Harbaugh, Integrated Software, Inc. and Bryan Salesky,
National Robotics and Engineering Consortium |
| Maritime Autonomy |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Intelligent Autonomy for Unmanned Sea Surface and
Underwater Vehicles
Dr. Terry Huntsberger, Hrand Aghazarian, Andres Castano,
Gail Woodward, Curtis Padgett and Dan Gaines, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Christine Buzzell, Naval Undersea Warfare Center |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Mission-Level Autonomy for Autonomous Undersea Vehicles
David Scheidt and Steve Marshall, JHU/APL, Dan Stilwell and
Brian McCarter, Virginia Tech |
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
MOOS and IvPHelm Approach to Autonomous
Surface Vessels
Alon Yaari, SARA, Inc. |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
Sensors and Autonomy Development for the Autonomous
Maritime Navigation (AMN) System
Les Elkins and Ping Zhuang, Spatial Integrated Systems, Inc.,
Terry Huntsberger and Hrand Aghazarian, NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Steve Crawford, Technology Systems Incorporated,
Reynolds Monach, Wagner Associates and Joe Fuller, Marshall
University |
Wednesday, June 11
Oral Presentations
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. |
| Four concurrent tracks as follows: (1) Air Vehicle Control I,
(2) Air Vehicle Operations II, (3) Cross-Platform Autonomy
and (4) Ground Vehicle Missions II |
| Air Vehicle Control I |
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Sense and Avoid (SAA) Air Traffic Detection Sensor
System III Demonstration
Andrew White and Michael Deschenes, DRA and Dr. John
McCalmont and Louis Chan, AFRL |
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
Autonomous Terminal Area Operations Control of
Unmanned Air Vehicles
Dr. Han Park and Michael Grage, Northrop Grumman
Corporation, Crystal Wiedemann, Air Force Research
Laboratory, Mark Micieli and Russell Wolfe, Modern
Technology Solutions, Inc., and Chris Brinton, Mosaic ATM |
| 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
From UAV System to System of UAV Systems
Eli Yitzhaki, Elbit Systems |
| 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
Fractal Control Architecture for Multiple UAVs Missions
Anil Raj
and Michelle Darrah, Institute for Human and Machine
Cognition, Dr. Sergey Drakunov, Embry-Riddle Aeronautcal University |
| Air Vehicle Operations II |
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Predicting the Cost of Future UAV Systems
Mark Sferra, Todd White and Huat Ng, Wyle Labs, and
Robert Altizer, Systems Planning and Analysis |
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
Canadian MALE UAS Operations - Lessons Learned
Lori Guétré and Andrew Carryer, MDA |
| 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
ASTM International's Portfolio of Industry Consensus
UAS Standards
Jeff Goldfinger, L-3 Communications and ASTM Committee
F38 Vice Chairman, Mike Howell, Northrop Grumman Corp.
and ASTM Committee F38 Chairman, and James Jewell, UAV
Marketspace and ASTM Committee F38 Membership Secretary |
| 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
The Use of Mission Systems Engineering in
Developing a Capability Based Unmanned System
Susan Brown, Raytheon Missile Systems |
| Cross-Platform Autonomy |
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Measuring Software Complexity to Target Risky Modules in
Autonomous Vehicle Systems
Clark, Carnegie Mellon-ISR, Dr. Chris Urmson,
Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, Dale Brenneman,
McCabe Software and Bryan Salesky, National Robotics and
Engineering Consortium |
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
Autonomy Levels for Unmanned Systems (ALFUS) Framework
Hui-Min Huang, NIST, U.S. DOC |
| 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
Flight and In-Water Experiments of Autonomy and Human
Interface Technologies with Multiple Unmanned Systems
Marc Steinberg, Office of Naval Research |
| 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
A Metric Taxonomy for Human Supervisory Control of
Unmanned Vehicles
Dr. Mary Cummings, Patricia Pina and Jacob Crandall, MIT |
| Ground Vehicle Missions II |
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Unmanned Vehicles in Land Warfare ISR
Roy Peshin, Simlat UAV Training Solutions
|
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
Sensor Technology and Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV)
Operations, Lessons Learned from Urban Challenge
Dr. Peter Drewes, Brian Satterfield and Heeten Choxi,
Lockheed Martin |
| 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
Implementing an SAE J2735 DSRC and JAUS Capable
Extra-Vehicle Communications System
Michael Brown and Paul Avery, Southwest Research Institute |
| 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
Harmonizing UK and US Software Standards
for Use in Unmanned Systems
Luke Perkins, QinetiQ |
Wednesday, June 11
Oral Presentations
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. |
| Four concurrent tracks as follows: (1) Air and Cross-Platform
Control, (2) Air Vehicle Operations III, (3) Air Vehicle Power and
Propulsion and (4) Ground Vehicle Payloads |
| Air Vehicle Control I |
| 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. |
Windows for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Andrew Kirschbaum and Bob Brown, D.P. Associates, Inc. |
| 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Motive and Affect-based Robotic Control (MARC)
Dr. Aaron A. Pepe, Ph.D., Wayne Zachary, Ph.D., Darius
Miller and Vassil Iordanov, CHI Systems Incorporated, Lynn
Miller, Ph.D. and Stephen Read, Ph.D., University of
Southern California |
| 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. |
Tree-coding of Beliefs for Improved Scalability of Stigmergic
Control Systems
Jay Moore, Dr. Jerold Emhoff and Christopher McCubbin,
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| Air Vehicle Operations III |
| 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. |
Cooperative Hunter/Killer UAS Demonstration
Jeffrey Barton, Sean Martin and Christopher Chiu, JHU/APL,
Walt Johnson and Reed Christiansen, Procerus Technologies |
| 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
A Human Factors Centered Approach to UAV Mishap Analysis
Geoffrey Carrigan, M. L. Cummings and John Duffner,
Humans and Automation Laboratory MIT, and Dave Long,
Lean Advancement Initiative |
| 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. |
The UK Predator Experience
SQN LDR Richard Sanderson, RAF |
| Air Vehicle Power and Propulsion |
| 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. |
Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) Mission Life Extension Through Perching
Capt. Michael Anderson, Eric Mees, Eddie
Wright, Rob Carter, Will Johnson, Matt VanBaren, Dr. John
Wood and Dr. Dan Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy |
| 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Addressing the Flight Duration Issues for Micro Air Vehicles –
Innovative Concepts and Prototypes for Importing Energy into
the System
Dr. John Wood, Dr. Dan Jensen, Mike Yakima, Rich Riley, Seth
Horner, John Smyrski, Kyle Smith, Chris Schumacher and Capt.
Michael Anderson, US Air Force Academy |
| 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. |
Preliminary Design of a Low Speed, Small UAV for Surveillance
Jun Hu and Guanglin He, Beijing Institute of Technology |
| Ground Vehicle Payloads |
| 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. |
Enhancing Man-Portable Robot Functionalities Through
Integration of New Sensor Packages
Donald Fellars, Brandon Sights, Gaurav Ahuja, Greg Kogut, Bart
Everett and Estrellina Pacis, SPAWAR Systems Center - San Diego |
| 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Nemesis: Robotic System for Humanitarian Demining
Dr. Dan Jensen, Mike Yakima, Dr. John Wood, Rich Riley, Seth
Dr. Michael Hannan, John Wetzel and Jonathan Miller, Applied
Research Associates |
| 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. |
Design Concepts and Stability Studies of a Teleoperated
Multi Role Mobile Robot
Alexander Rajasekaran, G. Kannan, N. Seetharaman and
N. Babu, CVRDE, DRDO, Ministry of Defence |
Thursday, June 12
8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Poster Sessions |
Sensor Analysis for Submarine Launched UAV
William Mulholland, Vince Amato and Paul Ryan,
Whitney, Bradley & Brown |
Flying Fish: A Persistent Ocean Surveillance Buoy with
Autonomous Aerial Repositioning
Daniel Macy, Ryan Eubank, Ella Atkins, Luis Bernal, Peter
Washabaugh and Guy Meadows, University of Michigan |
Intelligent Control of Unmanned Systems as an Emergent
Property of Situational Awareness
Michael A. Brown and Paul Avery, SwRI |
RF Emitter Geolocation Using Multiple Small Unmanned
Aerial Systems
Chris
McCubbin, Robert Bamberger, Jay Moore and Ravi Goonasekeram, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab |
Army Combat Casualty Care Collaborative Robotics &
Unmanned Systems for Multiple Missions
Michael Beebe, Dr. Gary R. Gilbert, Mr. Troy Turner and
Colonel James McGhee, MD, U.S. Army Telemedicine
and Advanced Technology Research Center, and David
Rousseau, U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems
Center, San Diego |
Development of a UAV Deployable Reconnaissance System
John Bird, Jonathan Gaines, Chris Bright, Patrick Kopfle,
James Chiang and Kevin Murray, Virginia Tech |
Synchronous Methods in Acoustics
Dr. Colin Bradbury, Mt. Hukee Labs, Inc. dba Pacific Nautilus |
Autonomous UAV Based Glycol Injected Pyrotechnic Ball
Dispenser for Controlled Burn Applications
Rodney Brown and Lucas Martinez, Air Force Research Lab |
Wireless Video Noise Classification for Micro Air Vehicles
Jeffrey Byrne and Raman Mehra, Scientific Systems
Company, Inc. |
Hands-free Control of Robots Using Non-Vocal Speech to Emulate
Joystick-type Continuous Commands
Jonathan Brown, Tarun Pruthi, Siddharth Chhatpar, Lester
Ngia and Jim Harris, Think-A-Move, Ltd. |
Development of Small Scale Ducted-prop Aerial Vehicle
Dr. Seong Wook Choi, Sam Ok Koo and Jai Moo Kim,
KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) |
Sensor Data, Gaming Provide Valued Mission Rehearsal
for Ground Troops
Mark Conger, Northrop Grumman, and Jon Damush, 2D3 Inc. |
Intelligent C2 Systems for Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Charles Little, Ralph R. Peters and J. Brian Rigdon, Sandia
National Laboratories, and Kevin L. Conrad, Lockheed
Martin |
Airborne Platform CONOPS and Net-Centric Processing
Extensions to Support Next Generation Tactical Manned/
Unmanned Teaming
Thomas Gaska, Dr. Robert Szczerba, Jeremy Impson and David
Ciarletta, Lockheed Martin Systems Integration – Owego |
HISAS 1030 on HUGIN AUV - High-resolution,
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS)
Chris Hancock, Terje Fossum and Svein Otto Schjerven,
Kongsberg Maritime AS |
Semi-Autonomus Control of an Emergency Response Robot
Dr. Andreas Hofmann, Jamie Nichol and Daniel Theobald,
Vecna Technologies, and Joe Fuller, Marshall University |
A Multi-Objective Decision and Learning Model for
Increased Autonomy of Unmanned Vehicles
Matthew Howard and Zhihua Qu, University of Central Florida, Kevin Conrad and Joseph Kaloust, Lockheed Martin |
A DSP-Based Target Recognition Algorithm for Unmanned
Aircraft System
Dr. Jinhui Lan, Tonghuan Huang and Lili Wan, University of
Science and Technology Beijing, and Jie Li, Beijing Institute
of Technology |
Vision-Based Landing Guidance System for Micro Air
Vehicle on the Sea
Jie Li and Yingdong Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology |
Auto-Adaptive Processing on Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
Robert Jannarone and John Tatum, Brainlike Surveillance,
Inc., John Joseph, Nathan Naluai and Donald Statter, Naval
Air Systems Command |
SolarBubbles: An Autonomous Solar-Powered UAV
Andrew Klesh, Daniel Macy, Anthony Smith, Patrick Senatore,
Nick Rooney and Jon Wiebs, University of Michigan |
Human Supervisory Control of an Autonomous Helicopter
Using LIDAR and Stereovision
Dr. Kevin Kochersberger, Andrew Culhane and Adam
Sharkasi, Virginia Tech, Jacob Crandall, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and John Smart, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory |
The Latest Generation of AUV Mounted Multibeam
Echosounders: Improving Deep Sea Exploration
Chris Malzone, Thomas Meurling and Jon Marcus, RESON |
Underwater to Above Water Communications using
RF Technology
Brendan Hyland, WFS Ltd. |
Highly Capable Payloads for Small/Medium Sized UAVs
Dr. William L. Kiser, Jr., Jeffrey Callen, Phillip Sherlock and
John Branthoover, Penn State Electro-Optics Center, and
Kevin Kearney, GeoSpatial Systems |
FAA Sense and Avoid Requirements: A Starting Point
Capt Eric Rucker, Lt. Kenneth LeBay and LtCol Andy
Thurling, 452d Flight Test Squadron |
Smart Area Weapons For UAVs
Richard Sterchele, Lou Cataldo and Lisa Atherton, Textron
Defense Systems, and Ben Smith, Textron Corporation |
Lynx SAR/GMTI Radar Update
Jim Thomson and Frank Yakos, General Atomics
Aeronautical Systems |
Thursday, June 12
Oral Presentations
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. |
| Four concurrent tracks as follows: (1) Air Vehicle Air-Space
Control, (2) Air Vehicle Civil Applications I, (3) Ground Vehicle
Navigation and (4) Maritime Missions |
| Air Vehicle Air-Space Control |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
UAS Airspace Integration - The Communication Challenges
Michael Neale, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Enhanced RF Connectivity for Dense UAS Environments
Dr. John Boyd, Cubic Corporation, Rob Frank, James Baker, Rockwell Collins, Inc. |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
High-Level Alternatives for Integrating Unmanned Aircraft into
Civil Airspace
Andrew Lacher, Kelly Markin and Dave Maroney,
The MITRE Corporation |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
Insertion of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Non-segregated
Airspace
Gilles Rousseau, Sagem Defense Security |
| Air Vehicle Civil Applications I |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Hurricanes: NOAA and
NASA’s Early Success
Dr. Joseph Cione, NOAA AOML Hurricane Research Division,
Eric Uhlhorn, NOAA Hurricane Research, Peter Turlington,
NASA Goddard Wallops, Michael Goodman, NASA Earth
Sciences Office, and Peter Bale |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
UAS for International Polar Year and Arctic Science Missions
Dr. Susan Schoenung, Longitude 122 West, Inc., and Randal
Albertson, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
Western States UAS Fire Mission 2007: Overview of
Capabilities, Successes and Fire Management Community
Perspective
Vince Ambrosia, CSUMB/NASA-Ames Research Center, Tom
Zajkowski, RedCastle Resources/USDA-Forest Service, Everett Hinkley and Darrel VanBuren, USDA
Forest Service, and Brent Cobleigh, NASA-DFRC |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
Operational Experience with Long Duration Wildfire Mapping
UAS Missions Over the Western United States
LCDR Phillip Hall, Greg Buoni, Brent Cobleigh and Kathleen Howell, NASA
Dryden Flight Research Center |
| Ground Vehicle Navigation |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Design and Evaluation of a Self-Contained Collaborative
Autonomy Unit for UGVs
Dr. Douglas C. MacKenzie and Aditya Nawab, Mobile
Intelligence Corporation |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Vision-Based Obstacle Detection for Autonomous
Off-Road Navigation
Dr. Wes Huang and Brian Stancil, Applied Perception, Inc.,
a Foster-Miller Company |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
Packbot with Mapping Kit: Real-time 2D Mapping and
Safe-Guarded Teleoperation
Jonathan Brookshire, iRobot |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
LADAR-Based Vehicle Tracking and Trajectory Estimation for
Urban Driving
Dr. Daniel Morris, Paul Haley, William Zachar and Steve
McLean, General Dynamics Robotic Systems |
| Maritime Missions |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Increasing Hydrographic Survey Capacity and Capability by
Use of AUVs
Chris Hancock, Kongsberg Underwater Technology, Inc.,
Dr. Freddy Pøhner, Karstein Vestgård and Bjørn Jalving,
Kongsberg Maritime AS |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Reliable Mission Execution Using Unreliable UUVs
Gary Giger and John Dzielski, Applied Research Lab/PSU,
and Mahmut Kandemir, Pennsylvania State University |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
An Autonomous Energy Harvesting Sailing Vessel for Persistent
Ocean Surveillance
Dr. Linda Frizzell-Makowski, Richard Shelsby, David Scheidt,
Karl Kreatschman, Anthony Nardo, Charles Cooperman, Jennifer Mann, Ronald Mitnick, David Shibilisky and John Cole,
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
Manta Ray - Unmanned Underwater Riverine Craft
Richard Adams, Trident World Systems, Inc. |
Thursday, June 12
Oral Presentations
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. |
| Four concurrent tracks as follows: (1) Air Vehicle Civil
Applications II, (2) Air Vehicle Control, (3) Air Vehicle Systems
and (4) Multiple Platforms |
| Air Vehicle Civil Applications II |
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Using Small UASs to Capture Multispectral Imagery for Use in
Precision Agriculture
David Dvorak, Mariusz Czarnomski, Matthew Lendway, Florent
Martel, William H. Semke and Richard R. Schultz, University of
North Dakota |
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
Autonomous UAV Swarms for Detection and Classification of
Chemical and Biological Agents
Chad Hawthorne, Chris Chiu, Steve Marshall and Adam Watkins, JHU/APL, David Ferris, United States Naval Academy, and Chris Keiser, Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center |
| 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
Interoperability Challenges with UAV Sensor Data
Donnie Self, National GeoSpatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Airborne Integration Branch |
| 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
Vertical Integration of Virtual and Actual UAV Prototyping in the
Aerospace Engineering Curriculum
Dr. Richard Hale, Mark Ewing, Ray Taghavi, Richard Colgren
and David Downing, University of Kansas |
| Air Vehicle Control II |
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Case Study: Controlling and Autonomously Landing a
Damaged UAV
Dr. David Vos, Athena Technologies, Inc. |
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
Human Factors in GCS Design: The Predator/Reaper Approach
Carl Thunberg, 658th AESG, and Anthony Tvaryanas |
| 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
A Day in the Life of a UAV Deployment: Lessons Learned
Don Iverson , The Boeing Company |
| 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Survivability Testing and Analysis
David Hall, Ron Dexter and Mike Ray, SURVICE Engineering Company |
| Air Vehicle Systems |
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Solar HALE UAVs
Frank Kiendl, German Liaison Office |
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
Naval UAS Expansion
Gary Kessler, NAVAIR PEO (U&W) |
| 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
Fire Scout Systems Description and Status Update
Michael Fuqua, Northrop Grumman |
| 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
Advanced-UAS, a Modular UAS Solution for Surveillance &
Recce Missions
Franz Bucher, EADS – Deutschland GmbH |
| Multiple Platforms |
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Lessons Learned When Leaping from Simulation to Live
Operations with Multiple Unmanned Systems
Thomas Moulds, Defense Technologies, Inc., Marc Steinberg,
ONR, and Sean Kaner, Wyle Lab |
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
Mixed-Initiative Adjustable Autonomy for
Human-Unmanned System Teaming
Dr. Meghann de Brun, Vera Zaychik Moffitt, Jerry L. Franke,
Dimitri Yiantsios, Trevor Housten, Adria Hughes, Drew Housten and Shannen Fouse, Lockheed
Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories |
| 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
Collaborative Target Localization and Inspection Using a
Heterogeneous Team of Autonomous Vehicles
David Van Covern, TORC Technologies, Dr. Charles Reinholtz,
Embry Riddle University, Al Wicks and Craig Woolsey,
Virginia Tech |
| 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
Efficient Swarming Algorithms for Information Distribution
Christopher McCubbin, R. Scott Cost, Markus Dale and Daniel
Bankman, JHU/APL |
