Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (AAIR)
Tuesday, AUGUST 13, 2024
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. |
Opening of GVSETS and the Technical Sessions in Legacy Ballroom, 2nd Floor Jim McManus, GVSETS Chair Valde Garcia, President, NDIA-Michigan Dr. David Gorsich, Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) |
| 8:20 a.m. |
Autonomy Panel: Human-Machine Integrated Formations Moderator: Dr. Robert Sadowski, Chief Roboticist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC COL Ken Bernier, Project Manager, Future Battle Platforms, Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems (PEO GCS) Kurt Bruck, Vice President, Neya Systems Robert Monto, Director, Advanced Concepts and Critical Technologies, U.S. Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) Leland “Kent” Shea, Product Manager, Robotics & Autonomous Systems, PEO CS&CSS Dr. Amber Walker, Senior Vice President, Ground, C2, and Maritime Systems, Parry Labs |
| 9:20 a.m. |
Best Paper Announcement Dr. David Gorsich, Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Dr. Gregg Wildes, Business Development Manager, DornerWorks |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Exhibitor Break |
| 10:05 a.m. |
Welcome to the AAIR Tech Session Dr. Oleg Sapunkov, Mechanical Engineer, Historian, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC |
| 10:10 a.m. |
Measurement and Prediction of Override Force of Clumps of Small Vegetation in Off-Road Autonomous Navigation Dr. Christopher Goodin, Associate Research Professor, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) Mississippi State University (MSU) Marc Moore, Graduate Research Assistant, CAVS, MSU Ethan Salmon, Research Engineer, CAVS, MSU Michael Cole, Mechanical Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar, Senior Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Brittney English, Senior Research Analyst, Dynetics Inc. |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Shadow Removal in Off-Road Terrain Perception with Multi-Sensor Signal Processing Dr. Steven Gardner, Research Engineer, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Dr. David Hoxie, Postdoctoral Researcher, UAB Nicholas Bowen, Software Developer, UAB Samuel Misko, Project Manager – Commercial & DoD Programs, UAB Prof. Mohammad Haider, Associate Professor, University of Missouri - Columbia Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar, Senior Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Dr. Vladimir Vantsevich, Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institution |
| 10:50 a.m. |
Applications of Unifying Off-Road Datasets through Ontology Anthony Medellin, Doctoral Student, Texas A&M University Anant Bhamri, Doctoral Student, Texas A&M University Dr. David Grabowsky, Electrical Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Albert Ma, Student Researcher, Texas A&M University Dr. Dariusz Mikulski, Lead Computer Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Prof. Reza Lanagri, Research Professor, Texas A&M University Prof. Swaminathan Gopalswamy, Research Professor, Texas A&M University |
| 11:10 a.m. |
SCAN-Net: A Sparsely Encoded Convolutional Autoencoder for Semantic Segmentation of Unknown Terrain Prof. Mohammad Haider, Associate Professor, University of Missouri - Columbia Dr. Steven Gardner, Research Engineer, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Dr. David Hoxie, Postdoctoral Researcher, UAB Samuel Misko, Project Manager – Commercial & DoD Programs, UAB Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar, Senior Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Dr. Jonathan Smereka, Research Senior Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Jacob Woten, Computer Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Vehicle-to-Pedestrian Relative State Estimation via Fusing UltraWideband Radios and a Monocular Camera Nicholas Ott, Student Researcher, Auburn University Tyler Flegel, Doctoral Student, Auburn University Prof. David Bevly, Professor, Auburn University |
| 11:50 a.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:05 p.m. |
Introduction to the AAIR Afternoon Session Dr. Matthew Foglesong, Director of Technology, National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC) |
| 1:10 p.m. |
Highly Accurate GPS-Denied PNT Using Doppler LIDAR Measurements Dr. Jeremy Templeton, Senior Systems Engineer, BlueSpace.ai Dr. Jasprit Gill, Senior Robotics Engineer, BlueSpace.ai Anurag Jakhotia, Senior Robotics Engineer, BlueSpace.ai Joel Pazhayampallil, Co-Founder & CEO, BlueSpace.ai |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Graphical Networks and Motion Detection Dr. David Hoxie, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Dr. Steven Gardner, Research Engineer, UAB Samuel Misko, Project Manager - Commercial & DoD Programs, UAB Prof. Mohammad Haider, Associate Professor, University of Missouri - Columbia Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar, Senior Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC |
| 1:50 p.m. |
Safety-Regulated Reinforcement Learning Compensated Model Predictive Control for Ground Vehicles with Unknown Disturbances Prakhar Gupta, Research Assistant, Clemson University Dr. Yunyi Jia, Associate Professor, Clemson University |
| 2:10 p.m. |
AI-Enhanced Proactive Model Predictive Control for Off-Road Autonomous Vehicles Mayuresh Bhosale, Ph.D. Student, Department of Automotive Engineering (AuE), Clemson University Prakhar Gupta, Ph.D. Student, AuE, Clemson University Rahul Prasanna Kumar, Ph.D. Student, AuE, Clemson University Dr. Yunyi Jia, Associate Professor, AuE, Clemson University |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Exhibitor Break |
| 3:15 p.m. |
Introduction to the AAIR Final Session Dr. David Grabowsky, Electrical Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC |
| 3:20 p.m. |
A Systematic Approach to Evaluation of Delivered AI Solutions David Wells, Torch Associate Technical Fellow , Torch Technologies Stuart L. Fowler, Torch Technical Fellow, Torch Technologies Josh Walters, Torch Associate Technical Fellow, Torch Technologies Ivy Elrod, Principal Engineer, Torch Technologies Jacob Foley, Aerospace Engineer, Torch Technologies |
| 3:40 p.m. |
A Safety Reasoning Copilot Design for Future Uncrewed Ground Vehicles (UGVs) Dr. Philip Frederick, Chief Scientist Office, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC |
| 4:00 p.m. |
Risk-Adaptive Rendezvous Planning for Resupply Missions in the Battlefield Thomas Jonsson Damgaard, Software Engineer, Carmenta Geospatial Technologies Inc. Dr. Mikael Rittri, Technical Expert, Carmenta Geospatial Technologies Inc. Patrick Franz, Vice President, Customer Success, Carmenta Geospatial Technologies Inc. |
| 4:20 p.m. |
Energy-Aware Mission Planning for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Fleets Noah Miller, Research Assistant, Department of Automotive Engineering (AuE), Clemson University Dr. Nathan Goulet, Research Engineer, AuE, Clemson University Prof. Beshah Ayalew, Professor, AuE, Clemson University |
| 4:40 p.m. |
Identifying and Mitigating the Challenges with Vehicle Path Planning in the Presence of Dynamic Obstacles Stephen Harnett, Graduate Research Assistant, Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) Pennsylvania State University (PSU) Prof. Sean Brennan, Professor, PSU Prof. Herschel Pangborn, Assistant Professor, PSU Jesse Pentzer, Assistant Research Professor, ARL, PSU Prof. Karl Reichard, ARL Technical Fellow, Associate Research Professor, ARL, PSU |
| 5:00 p.m. |
AAIR Technical Session Conclusion Dr. Oleg Sapunkov, Mechanical Engineer, Historian, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC |
| 5:15 p.m. |
Networking Reception: GVSETS Visits The Wild Wild West — Outdoor Patio |