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AUVSI's Unmanned Systems North America 2006
Program

The Department of Defense finds this event meets the minimum regulatory standards for attendance by DoD employees. This finding does not constitute a blanket approval or endorsement for attendance. Individual DoD Component commands or organizations are responsible for approving attendance of its DoD employees based on mission requirements and DoD regulations.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast with the Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall)
8:00 – 5:30 p.m. Poster Sessions

 

Holistic Contingency Management for Autonomous Unmanned Systems

Jerry Franke, Adria Hughes and Stephen M. Jameson, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories

 

Discover Vision: A Framework for Building, Evaluating, and Testing Performance Based Machine Vision

Dr. Fernando Gonzalez, Daniel Barber and Brian C. Becker, University of Central Florida

 

Modular Open Systems Approach for UUV Rapid Capability Insertion

David Herman, The Boeing Company

 

Integration of a PEM Fuel Cell into a Slow Speed UAV

Christopher Herwerth, Alan Ko and Dr. Maj Mirmirani, Multidisciplinary Flight Dynamics and Control Laboratory, California State University

 

Rotorcraft Unmanned Air Vehicle Navigation in Uncertain Urban Environments

Jason Howlett and Matt Whalley, US Army AFDD; Peter Tsenkov and Greg Schulein, San Jose State University Foundation

 

PDA Technology for Small UAV Operations

Dr. Douglas Kliman and Peter A. Krawczak, TacGeo

 

Long-Term Mine Reconnaissance System (LMRS) Field Testing Overview

Damian Drozd, Fred Sheldon, David Flowers and Steve Nicinski, The Boeing Company

 

The Use of Multidisciplinary Optimization Methods in the Design of Unmanned Vehicles

Dr. Dominic Palumbo, AAI Corporation

 

Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis of Crew Performance U.S. Army Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Regina Pomranky and Bruce Hunn, US Army Research Laboratory

 

Enabling Tight Coordination for Complex Multirobot Missions

Nidhi Kalra, Anthony Stentz, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute

 

GHMD Modeling and Simulation for Experimentation

Keith Weisz and John Auborn, NAVAIR

 

Global Hawk Automatic Contingency Generator Flight Test

Steven Yamaguchi, USAF, 452 FLTS; Bill Norton, JT3; Lejui Brand, USAF

 

Modeling for UAS Collision Avoidance

Dr. Andrew Zeitlin, MITRE Corp.

 

Mixed-Initiative Adjustable Autonomy in Multi-Vehicle Operations

Vera Zaychik Moffit, Lockheed Martin ATL

 

5 hp Class Heavy Fuel Engine with Peak Pressure Management without High-Pressure Fuel Injection

S. Paul Dev, D-Star Engineering Corp.

 

10:00 a.m. – Noon

Technical Sessions
Four concurrent tracks as follows: (1) Command & Control I, (2) Command & Control II, (3) Operations I, and (4) Test & Evaluation I

 

Command & Control I

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Sensors for Unmanned Systems
Jeff Callen, Penn State University Electro-Optics Center
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Underwater Positioning System Using Terrain Matching
Dr. Hiroshi Nagakura, Nobuya Yoshimoto, Dr. Shinichi Miyamoto and Yoichiro Asano, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Operator Interface for the Control of Multiple Semi-Autonomous UGVs
Dr. Chris Jones and Dr. Scott Lenser, iRobot Corporation
11:30 a.m. – Noon Fully Automatic Control from Takeoff to Landing of a UAV Based on a Single-Antenna GPS Receiver
Sanghyo Lee, Am Cho, Jihoon Kim and Changdon Kee, Seoul National University

 

Command & Control II

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Flying UAVs in the Commercial Air Space
Dr. David Vos, Athena Technologies, Inc.
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. The Commercialisation of UAVs
Bruno Esposito, Advantage Business Group
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Bandwidth Agile Sensor Swarm: Command and Control for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
Randy Dieterle and Brandon Goldfedder, Information Extraction and Transport, Inc.; Douglas Hart, Cyberneutics, Inc.
11:30 a.m. – Noon Reactive Navigation of an Autonomous Ground Vehicle Using Dynamic Expansion Zones
Joseph Putney, Virginia Tech

 

Operations I

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Towards an Unmanned Systems Master Plan
CAPT Rand LeBouvier, USN (Ret.), Bluefin Robotics
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Navy UAS Roadmap
CAPT Steve Wright, USN, N78 Air Warfare
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Northrop Gumman's Family of Unmanned Aerial Systems
Rick Ludwig, Northrop Grumman
11:30 a.m. – Noon SPERWER Second Tour In Afghanistan
Gilles Rousseau, Sagem Defense Security

 

Test & Evaluation I

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Passive Acoustic Non-Cooperative Collision Alert System (PANCAS) for UAV Sense and Avoid
Duane Cline and Steve Wilcox, SARA, Inc.; Charles Ingalls, US Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Measuring Unmanned Vehicle System Performance: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Jerry Harbour, David Bruemmer and Douglas Few, Idaho National Laboratory
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Use of Integrated Test to Reduce Cost and Schedule for UAS Acquisition
LCDR Jeff Laugle, US Navy COMOPTEVFOR
11:30 a.m. – Noon Object Recognition and Reasoning for an Autonomous Maritime Navigation System
Les Elkins, Spatial Integrated Systems, Inc.; Joe Fuller, Marshall University

 

Noon – 1:30 p.m.

Networking Lunch with Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall)

 

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Technical Sessions
Four concurrent tracks as follows: (1) Operations II, (2) Payloads & Missions I, (3) Test & Evaluation II, and (4) Design I

 

Operations II

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Developing an Intelligent and Integrated Unmanned Ground Vehicle System: A Case Study
Miles Walton, David Bruemmer, Douglas Few and Curtis Nielsen, Idaho National Laboratory
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Mixed Initiative Human/Robot Team Performance Assessment System
Dr. Amos Freedy, James McDonough, Elan Freedy and Gershon Weltman, Perceptronics Solutions, Inc.; Michelle Kalphat, US Army, RDECOM-STTC
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Creation of Special Use Airspace for Unmanned Aircraft Activity
Glen Witt and Stephen B. Hottman, NMSU-PSL

 

Payloads & Missions I

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Use of Unmanned Surface and Aerial Vehicles to Inspect Damage After Hurricane Wilma
Dr. Robin Murphy, Eric Steimle, Charlie Cullins, Kevin Pratt and Mike Hall, University of South Florida; Chandler Griffin, iSENSYS
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. MQ-8B Fire Scout: An Update on Weaponization Accomplishments and Plans, an Overview of Shipboard Operations, and the Status of MQ-8B Development
Michael Fuqua, Northrop Grumman
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Recent Developments in Army UAS Payload Programs
LTC Reed Young, PM Robotic and Unmanned Sensors

 

Test & Evaluation II

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. USDA Forest Service Small UAS Demonstration Series
Thomas Zajkowski and Everett Hinkley, USDA Forest Service (RSAC); Dr. Vince Ambrosia and Randell Berthold, NASA-Ames
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Inverting the Ratio: One Operator to Many Vehicles
John Molberg and Terry Bandzul, CDL Systems
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Queuing Theory Applied to UGV Operator Workload
Dr. Barry Bodt, U.S. Army Research Laboratory

 

Design I

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Building the First Tactical Ground Robot – Gladiator
Jeffrey Farbacher, Dr. Dimi Apostolopoulos and Steve DiAntonio, Carnegie Mellon University
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Robotic Technologies for Unmanned Ground Vehicles - The ART Program
Steve Hammond, BAE Systems; Jeff Jaster, U.S. Army TARDEC
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Aerial Tethered Robotic System With Hovering-Hopping Agents For Security and Rescue Operations
Dr. Danny Ratner, and A/Prof. Phillip McKerrow, University of Wollongong

 

3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Afternoon Break (Exhibit Hall)

 

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Technical Sessions
Four concurrent tracks as follows: (1) Operations II, (2) Payloads & Missions I, (3) Test & Evaluation II, and (4) Design I

 

Operations II

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Migrating Payload and Navigation Capabilities from the Tactical UAS Class to the Man-Portable Class
Ofer Ben-Dov and Elad Aharonson, Elbit Systems LTD
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. MMW Radar for Non-Cooperative Collision Avoidance - Development Report
Robert Bernier and Pierre Poitevin, Amphitech Systems Inc.
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Requirements for Semi-Autonomous Flight in Miniature UAVs for Structural Inspection
Kevin Pratt, Robin Murphy and Sam Stover, Institute for Safety Security Rescue Technology; Chandler Griffin, iSENSYS

 

Payloads & Missions I

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Remote Sensing Technologies Applied to Unmanned Air Vehicles
John Thompson, FLIR Systems, Inc.
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. SAR Sensors for Small Tactical UAVs: Update on MISAR
Dr. Michael Edrich and Dr. Alexander Wergin, EADS Deutschland GmbH
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Autonomous Detection and Geo-Positioning of Unexploded Ordnance
Donald MacArthur and Dr. Carl D. Crane, University of Florida

 

Test & Evaluation II

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Multi-Modal Command and Control in Embedded Unmanned System Training
Dr. Peter Drewes, CESI; Tim Roberts and Pat Garrity, RDECOM
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. U.S. Army Family of UAS
Col Donald Hazelwood, US Army UAS Project Office
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. NUSE2 Perimeter Security Experiment
Kevin Hodges, US Air Force AFRL

 

Design I

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Anatomy of a Mid-Air Collision
David Morrow, 2Lt David Tess and Lt Col Andy Thurling, 452 Flight Test Squadron
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Vulnerability Reduction Guide
Matt Kolleck, Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center (SURVIAC)
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Development of Lightweight 2-Stroke & 4-Stroke Heavy Fuel UAV Engines
Geoff Cathcart and Gavin Dickson, Orbital Corporation Limited

 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 31

 

8:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast with the Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall)
8:00 – 4:00 p.m. Poster Sessions

 

The Sparrow Hawk - Small Unit, Tube-Launched Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TLUAV)

Richard Adams, Vulcan Technologies

 

Competing and Completing the DARPA 2005 Grand Challenge- Positioning to Win

Michael Clark, Harris Corporation

 

Hunter UAV Evolution – From RQ-5A to MQ-5B

Scott McCourt, Dave Edwards and Mike Howell, Northrop Grumman Unmanned Systems

 

Remote Delivery of Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS) by UAV

Greg d'Arbonne and Richard Sterchele, Textron Systems; Ben Smith, Textron Corporation

 

A New Drive Concept for Smaller, Lighter UGVs

Dr. James Burns, L-3 Research

 

Geological Sample Acquisition and Transfer Technology for Underwater Exploration

Seth Frader-Thompson, Jack Craft and Paul Bartlett, Honeybee Robotics

 

Development of a Self-Contained Payload Aiming and Stabilization System for Small-Sized UAVs

Patrick Currier and David Anderson, Virginia Tech

 

High Level Programming Support for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Dr. Mahmut Kandemir, Computer Science & Engineering; Gary Giger and Liping Xue, Penn State University

 

Active Materials for Wing Morphing Micro-Air-Vehicles

Dr. Andrew Kurdila, Onur Bilgen and Daniel Inman, Virginia Tech; Richard Lind, University of Florida

 

Developing Semi-Autonomous Battlefield Support Capabilities with the Army Corps of Engineers

Paul Lewis, Sarah Gray, Kurt Niederhauser and Bret Turpin, Autonomous Solutions, Inc., Lulu Edwards, Army Corps of Engineers

 

Cognitive Systems Engineering for Operator Supervisory Control of Multiple UAV/UCAVs

Dr. William Marshak and Jeff Collier, SYTRONICS, Inc.

 

Fuel Cells as High Energy Density Power Sources for Long-Endurance SUAVs

Dr. Paul Osenar, Protonex Technology Corporation

 

Issues and Approaches for Small Aperture Satcom Terminals on Unmanned Aircraft

Larry Sawyer and Don Wilcoxson, ViaSat, Inc

 

Affordable Autonomous Launch & Recovery of Fixed-Wing UAVs

Kirk Singleton, Geneva Aerospace

 

Modular Robotic Control System Development and Application

Michael W. Hannan, John Wetzel, John-Michael Taylor, Martin G. Midura and Shawn E. Ricker, ARA

 

Results of JAUS OPC Experiment 2.75

Dr. Jeffrey Wit, US Air Force AFRL; Parag Batavia, Ph.D., Applied Perception, Inc.

 

NASA's Suborbital Science Program: Unmanned Aerial Systems for Earth Science

Cheryl Yuhas, NASA Science Mission Directorate; Matt Fladeland, NASA Ames Research Center; Anthony Guillory, NASA Wallops Flight Facility; Frank Cutler, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center; Susan Schoenung, Longitude 122 West, Inc.; Ian McCubbin, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute

 

RVT Level 3 - Bringing UAV Payload Control To The Front Line User

Shai Palti, Aeronautics Defense Systems

 

10:00 a.m. – Noon

Technical Sessions
Four concurrent tracks as follows: (1) Command & Control III, (2) Command & Control IV, (3) Operations III, and (4) Payloads & Missions II

 

Command & Control III

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Area Dominance Munition
Ben Plenge, Air Force Research Laboratory/Munitions Directorate
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Smart Wide Area Weapons For UAVs
Richard Sterchele, Lou Cataldo and Freeda Ostis, Textron Systems; Ben Smith, Textron Corporation
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. A Common Unmanned Vehicle Communications System for the Littoral Combat Ship
Joseph Krajnak, Thomas Sides, Lee Tennison and Lloyd Decker, NAVSEA Dahlgren Division; Thomas Staley, SSC San Diego
11:30 a.m. – Noon Randomized Planning for Multi-agent Teams
Dave Ferguson and Anthony Stentz, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Command & Control IV

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Risk-Aware Mixed-Initiative Dynamic Replanning (RMDR) Program Update
Margaret Nervegna and Dr. Michael Ricard, C.S. Draper Laboratory
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Complex Task Allocation and Execution for Teams of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles
Robert Zlot and Anthony Stentz, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Using Real-time Vision to Control a Convoy of Semi-Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
Dr. D. J. Lee, Jonathan Anderson and Beau Tippetts, Brigham Young University; Robert Schoenberger, Agris-Schoen Vision Systems, Inc.
11:30 a.m. – Noon Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (SUAS ACTD)
Dan Bernard, U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center/United States Special Operations Command

 

Operations III

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Unmanned Systems Safety
John Canning, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. The Pioneer RQ2B Support to the Warfighter
Maj P.J. Kerr, HQMC Aviation; LtCol Eric Chase, PMA 263
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Hurricane Navigation with a Small UAV: Practical Experience and Future Strategies
Jon Becker, Cloud Cap Technology; Joseph Cione, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Po-Hsiung Lin, National Taiwan University; Greg Holland, National Center for Atmospheric Research
11:30 a.m. – Noon Expanding the Missions of Unmanned Surveillance
Don Cattell, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

 

Payloads & Missions II

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. The US Naval Family of UAS
CAPT Paul Morgan, PMA 263
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Sensor Fusion and Coastal Geometry Estimation from Autonomous Surface Naval Vehicles
Dr. Andrew Kurdila, Bin Xu and Daniel Stilwell, Virginia Tech; Robert Sharpley, University of South Carolina
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Vision-Based Moving Target Tracking Using Mini UAVs
Dr. Isaac Kaminer, Vladimir N. Dobrokhodov, Wolfgang Baer, Kevin D. Jones, NPS and Reza Ghabcheloo, IST
11:30 a.m. – Noon Autonomous UAV Swarms for Detection and Classification of Chemical and Biological Agents
Chad Hawthorne, Eric VanGiesen, Dave Scheidt, Bob Chalmers and Chris Chiu, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

 

Noon – 2:00 p.m.

Awards Luncheon

 

2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Technical Sessions
Four concurrent tracks as follows: (1) Command & Control V, (2) Command and Control VI, (3) Payloads & Missions III, and (4) Design II

 

Command & Control V

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Legged Robot Motion with Explicit Stability Constraints: Theory and Application
Adam Rzepniewski, Ph.D. and Greg Andrews, C.S. Draper Laboratory
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Accurate Location Management for UGVs in the Urban Environment
Charles H. Woloszynski, Innovative Concepts; Steve Rounds, L-3 Communications
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Helikites for Lifting Persistent Radio-Relay for Unmanned Systems
Sandy Allsopp, Allsopp Helikites Limited
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Demonstrated Benefits of a Modular Framework for Mission Management and Control of Unmanned Vehicles
Geoffrey Butler, Nigel Cox, Rex Helton, Robert McSwiggen, Robert Settle and Judi Taylor, BAE Systems

 

Command & Control VI

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Multi-UAV, Collaborative Sensor Management For UAV Team Survivability
Craig Stoneking, Phil DiBona and Adria Hughes, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Implementation of JAUS on a 2004 Cadillac SRX using a Potential Fields Architecture
Grant Gothing, Virginia Tech – JOUSTER; Jesse Hurdus, Virginia Tech
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in Net-Centric Warfare: Incorporating Link 16 and Cursor-on-Target
Lt Jeremy Tachau, USAF HQ XO Combat Support Office
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Cooperative Control of UAVs for Search and Localization
Prof. Vijay Kumar, GRASP Laboratory; Ben Grocholsky, James Keller and George Pappas, University of Pennsylvania

 

Payloads & Missions III

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. The Evaluation of Collision Avoidance Maneuver Performance for Tilt Rotor UAV
Dr. Soojung Hwang, Soohun Oh, Sungho Chang and Samok Koo, Korea Aerospace Research Institute
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Light Weight, Hyperspectral Imaging for Small Unmanned Air Vehicles
Dr. Mark Patterson and Lois Wardel, Advanced Ceramics Research; Rand Swanson, Resonon
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Earth Science Mission Requirements for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Dr. Susan Schoenung, Longitude 122 West, Inc.; Matt Fladeland and Mike Gaunce, NASA Ames Research Center; Tim Cox and Randy Albertson, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center; Steve Wegener, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Predator B Multi-Int Surveillance Operational Demonstration
David Toms and Lawrence Maver, Goodrich, Inc.

 

Design II

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Optimal Design and Analysis of Micro-Aerial Vehicles (MAVs)
Dr. Mark Pierson and Andrew Kurdila, Virginia Tech
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Certification for National Airspace Access
Brian Bowe, Alan Aghan, Hoyt Lougee and Garrett Thurston, Foliage Software Service
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Implications of Lessons Learned from Experience with Large Truck Autonomous Ground Vehicles
Venkataraman Sundareswaran, Rockwell Scientific; Cris Johnson and Debbie Braid, Rockwell Collins
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Kinematic Design of a Novel All-wheel Drive Multi-body Articulated Unmanned Ground Vehicle
Sean Baity, AAI Corporation/Virginia Tech; Charles F. Reinholtz and Alfred L. Wicks, Virginia Tech
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