Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (AAIR)

Registration

Opening of GVSETS and the Technical Sessions in Legacy Ballroom, 2nd Floor

Thom Green - GVSETS Chair

Valde Garcia - President, NDIA Michigan Chapter

Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

The Benefits and Challenges to Leveraging Commercial Off-the-Shelf Solutions to Modernize the Force

Moderator: Tom Vern - Assistant Chief of Staff G5, Strategic Plans & Communications, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Pete Johnson - Vice President of Business Development for Integrated Vehicles, GM Defense

Mike Milner - Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, American Rheinmetall Vehicles (ARV)

Tim George - Vice President of Sales & Marketing, ND Defense LLC.

Best Paper Announcement

Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Gregg Wildes - Business Development Manager, DornerWorks

Exhibitor Break

Welcome to the AAIR Tech Session

Dr. Oleg Sapunkov - Mechanical Engineer, Historian, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Enhanced Object Matching and Identification for Multi-Robot Systems in Complex Environments

Taylor Brown - Research Assistant, Fayetteville State University

Grace Vincent - Research Assistant, North Carolina State University

Dr. Sambit Bhattacharya - Professor, Fayetteville State University

Dr. Kyle Nakamoto - Senior AI Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton

LIPO: Lidar Inertial Odometry for ICP Comparison

Darwin Mick - Doctoral Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Taylor Pool - Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Madankumar Sathenahally Nagaraju - Staff Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Dr. Michael Kaess - Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Dr. Howie Choset - Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Dr. Matthew Travers - Senior System Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Uncrewed Aerial System Detection and Tracking with Event Cameras

Dr. David Anthony - Lead Engineer, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

David Chambers - Staff Engineer, SwRI

Jerry Towler - Program Director, SwRI

VORA™: Vision for Off-Road Autonomy

Meera Day Towler - Program Manager, SwRI

Harold Garza - Senior Research Engineer, SwRI

David Chambers - Staff Engineer, SwRI

Pre-Training Hyperspectral Image Encoder via Synthetic Data

Dr. Anthony Medellin - Doctoral Graduate, Texas A&M University

Dr. David Grabowsky - Electrical Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Dariusz Mikulski - Lead Research Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Reza Langari - Professor, Texas A&M University

Lunch

Introduction to the AAIR Afternoon Session

Dr. Oleg Sapunkov - Mechanical Engineer, Historian, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Applying Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Software Production Factory to Accelerate Rapid Prototyping for Ground Vehicles

Kevin Griffin - Senior Systems Engineer, SAIC

Robert Kanon - Digital Engineering Chief, SAIC

Anthony Rinaldo - Systems Engineer, SAIC

Russel Kouba - Advanced Concepts Lead, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Optimizing Firing Position Usage for Survivability and Effectiveness in Artillery Shoot-And-Scoot Tactics

Thomas Jonsson Damgaard - Software Engineer, Carmenta Geospatial Technologies Inc.

Dr. Mikael Rittri - Technical Expert, Carmenta Geospatial Technologies Inc.

Planning for Employment of Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS)

Michael Spratley - Senior Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)

Andrew Schooley - Principal Research Engineer, GTRI

Trey Dickerhoff - Senior Research Engineer, GTRI

Communication Network Construction Behaviors for Robotic Convoying

Charles Noren - Doctoral Student, Carnegie Mellon University

Sahil Chaudhary - Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University

Burhanuddin Shirose - Engineer, Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Bhaskar Vundurthy - Project Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Matthew Travers - Senior Systems Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University

Break

Introduction to the AAIR Final Session

Dr. Oleg Sapunkov - Mechanical Engineer, Historian, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Vision-Language-Action Models (Guest Talk)

Dr. Jonathon Smereka - Senior Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

A Novel Orchestration Framework for Zero Trust Unmanned Vehicular Networks in ROS 2

Noah Tinker - Graduate Student, Clemson University

Julia Boone - Doctoral Student, Clemson University

Dr. Kuang-Ching Wang - Professor, Clemson University

MOSA C2 for Autonomous Vehicles to Counter UAS, Swarm, and Ground-Based Robotic Threats

Jeremy Davidson - Systems Engineering Director, SAIC

Dr. Peter Drewes - Chief Technology Officer, SAIC

Roger Graham - Systems Engineer, SAIC

Eric Haider - Business Development, SAIC

Michael Phillips - Business Development Director, SAIC

Ensuring Safe Control of Automated/Autonomous Ground Vehicles

Mark Underhill - Principal Engineer, Moog, Inc.

Rich Delecki - Business Development Manager, Moog, Inc.

Denis O'Sullivan - Senior Software Engineer, Moog, Inc.

The SOTIF Meta-Algorithm: Quantitative Analyses of the Safety of AI

Michael Wagner - Chief Product Officer, Edge Case Research, Inc.

Noah Carlson - Senior System Safety Engineer, Edge Case Research, Inc.

Dr. Chris Dwyer - Senior Expert, Edge Case Research, Inc.

AAIR Technical Session Conclusion

Dr. Oleg Sapunkov - Mechanical Engineer, Historian, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Networking Reception