AUVSI's Unmanned Systems 2016

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NASA Global Hawk Payload High Bandwidth Communications, Command and Control (Room 261-262)

02 May 16
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Speaker(s): Don Sullivan
I have designed the communication subsystems and ground and space based data dissemination systems for more than eight NASA UAVs, starting with the... More...

UAS Propulsion: New Developments, Research and Pathways Toward Improved Performance (Room 265-268)

02 May 16
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Jeff Ratcliffe ; John Nevadomsky ; Len Louthan ; Leonid Tartakovsky ; Michael Kass
The propulsion unit is a critical component of unmanned aerial systems. It not only provides the thrust, but also powers the instrument and sensor ... More...

The Automation of Expeditionary Resupply in Austere Environments (Room 271-272)

02 May 16
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Speaker(s): Mark Rosenblum
The Marine Corps is focusing its expeditionary capability to align with the strategic guidance outlined in support of Expeditionary Force 21 (EF21)... More...

Optimizing Seaglider Performance Utilizing a Variable Incidence Wing (Room 275-276)

02 May 16
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Speaker(s): Christopher Hockley
Underwater gliders are a family of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) that utilizes the modulation of buoyancy and center of gravity in order to ... More...

Testing Protocols and Sharing Testing Best Practices (Room 278-282)

02 May 16
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker(s): James Kinsey ; Mark Pestana ; Mathew Gaston ; Matthew Dooley ; Nick Vincent ; Paul Schmitt ; Roy Martin ; Vijay Somandepalli ; William Bowes
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Multicopters for Search and Rescue in Indoor Environments (Room 283-285)

02 May 16
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
One of the potential areas of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) applications is for search and rescue missions during natural disaster such as earthqu... More...

Disaster Robotics: Land, Sea, and Air (Room 288-290)

02 May 16
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker(s): Jan Dufek
This session will provide a hands-on tutorial for industry and agencies interested in disaster robotics and also a forum for the small, but gro... More...

AUVSI's Airspace Integration and Policy Panel (Room 293-296)

02 May 16
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Doug Davis ; Jim Williams ; Paul McDuffee ; Randy Willis
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Let’s Make a Deal: Venture Capital and M&A Perspectives from Unmanned Systems Dealmakers (Room 298-299)

02 May 16
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Andy Lustig ; Andy Palowitch ; David Proulx ; Gareth Keane ; Jonathan Rubin
PRESENTER Jonathan Rubin is a partner at the Westbury Group, an investment bank, and heads up the firm’s unmanned systems practice. BACKGROUN... More...

Robotic and Autonomy Experimentation: Past, Present, and Future (Room 271-272)

02 May 16
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
This session will include technical, programmatic, lessons learned, teaming and joint collaboration concepts, CONOPS developed, TTPs developed. It ... More...

Power Generation with Cryogenics of UUV (Room 275-276)

02 May 16
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Speaker(s): Jonathan Sasson
Undersea vehicles serve as key elements in integrated operations of future surface ships and submarines, providing a range of mission support funct... More...

Solutions to Increase Control and Productivity in Mining and Quarrying Activities (Room 283-285)

02 May 16
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Slides VERBATIM Next slide First of all It is a great honor and pleasure for our company and I to be on that stage to be among you; MTSI stands for... More...

SATCOM for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Room 261-262)

02 May 16
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
SATCOM for Unmanned Aircraft Systems A new generation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are capable of long endurance flight time, which enables b... More...

TerraMax UGV: The Next Generation Convoy (Room 271-272)

02 May 16
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): John Beck
Improvised explosive devices are one of the greatest threats to today’s ground forces. Unmanned tactical wheeled vehicles can deliver force p... More...

Maritime Vehicle Testing and Operational Testing in Complex Environments (Room 275-276)

02 May 16
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
This session will present vehicle operating and sensor data demonstrating the challenges of operating in variable environments such as currents, sa... More...

ZEPHYR: Focus of an Aircraft, Endurance like a SatelliteHigh Altitude Pseudo Satellite (Room 283-285)

02 May 16
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
ZEPHYR - Focus of an Aircraft, Endurance like a Satellite High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) – Cost effective and gap filling technology f... More...

Understanding Sensors: The Brain of the UAV (Room 261-262)

02 May 16
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker(s): Fred Bivetto Lt. Col. (Ret) ; John Minor
This presentation will begin with a highly interesting video from a recent UVU graduate, Robert Hannaford, who’s using UAVs to prevent rhino ... More...

Accident Investigation for UAS Professionals: Workshop Series Introduction (Room 265-268)

02 May 16
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker(s): Anna Neel ; Bill English ; Jon Gaster ; Kyle Snyder
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A Student Robot Challenge using the Meccanoid G15KS Personal Robot (Room 271-272)

02 May 16
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker(s): Nate Callender
The Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) oversees universities, community colleges, and colleges of applied technology in the State of Tennessee. The T... More...

Federal, State, and Local: How Can We All Get Along? (Room 283-285)

02 May 16
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker(s): Joshua Turner ; Reginald Govan ; Stephen Ucci ; Tom McMahon
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UAS Sensors and Analytics for Precision Agriculture (Room 293-296)

02 May 16
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker(s): Alfonso Torres-Rua ; Brian Walter ; Gabriel Torres ; Michael Ritter ; Tom McKinnon
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Risk-Based Approach to Airworthiness (Room 298-299)

02 May 16
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker(s): Andrew Lacher ; Anil Nanduri ; Jeff Breunig ; Thomas Haun ; Walter Stockwell ; Wes Ryan
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Airspace Awareness And Flight Safety Through A Distributed Network Of Apps, Smart Devices, and UTM Interfaces (Room 261-262)

02 May 16
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker(s): Gregory McNeal
In this presentation Dr. McNeal will describe the unmanned aircraft ecosystem and use cases as they exist today. He will focus on both the recreati... More...

Human- Robotic & Autonomous Systems Teaming (H-RAST) Beyond 2030 (Room 271-272)

02 May 16
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
The potential exists for robotic & autonomous systems (RAS) to become an integral part of every scenario across the range of military operation... More...

Tuesday Morning General Session (Room Hall I-2)

03 May 16
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Speaker(s): Gur Kimchi ; John Chambers ; Miles O'Brien
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NASA Global Hawk Payload High Bandwidth Communications, Command and Control (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2727)

03 May 16
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
I have designed the communication subsystems and ground and space based data dissemination systems for more than eight NASA UAVs, starting with the... More...

Loosening the Reins: Autonomous, Decentralized, Allocation of Resources and Tasks for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2727)

03 May 16
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker(s): Stephan Lemmer
Task assignment and allocation, a critical element in multi-agent teams, overwhelmingly remains the domain of human operators. Due to this, heterog... More...

Rapid Development of a Mobile Robot Simulation Environment (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2727)

03 May 16
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker(s): Gordon Stein
During the 2015 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, the Lawrence Technological University team had a problem. We were working with a new platfo... More...

Reliable Real Time Communications onboard UAVs (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2727)

03 May 16
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker(s): Martin Cadirola
Advancements in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies in conjunction with improvements of image sensors as well as signal processing have enab... More...

Wide-Scale Small Unmanned Aircraft System Access to the National Airspace System (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2727)

03 May 16
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Once implemented, impending revisions of federal policies and regulations for the operation and certification of small unmanned aircraft systems (s... More...

Small UAS Propeller/Rotor Sound Pressure Level and Thrust Testing: Bioinspired Modifications for UAS Noise Reduction (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2727)

03 May 16
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker(s): Nate Callender
Aircraft noise is specifically addressed in Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Title 14 Part 36. Maximum sound pressure levels (SPL) are set by airc... More...

Investigating Icing Solutions for MQ-8 (Fire Scout) UAS (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2727)

03 May 16
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker(s): Robert Ernst
Operations in and around icing conditions are a significant threat to aircraft and have been a focus of the aviation industry for many years. Becau... More...

UAV-Guided Navigation of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2727)

03 May 16
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker(s): Subodh Bhandari
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) offer many advantages for various types of mission including search and rescue and ordnance disposal. They signific... More...

Solid-State Propulsion for Rotary- and Fixed-Wing Aircraft (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2727)

03 May 16
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker(s): Onur Bilgen
Shape adaptation is a trait that some smart-materials naturally exhibit; hence such materials may offer system-level benefits as actuators for morp... More...

The Power of the Payload: Innovation for Intelligent Systems (Room 261-262)

03 May 16
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
The continued development and proliferation of autonomous and unmanned systems has been highlighted as a priority throughout the Department of Defe... More...

Drones in the Enterprise: The Sky's the Limit (Room 265-268)

03 May 16
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Alex Tepper ; Jesse Kallman ; Kevin Grover ; Matt Walsh ; Todd Binion
Commercial drone operations can help minimize operating costs, increase efficiency and mitigate safety risks allowing companies to make sound busin... More...

The First Government Sanctioned Delivery of Medical Supplies by Remotely Controlled UAS (Room 271-272)

03 May 16
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Speaker(s): Charles Howell
The first government sanctioned delivery of medical supplies by UAS occurred at Wise, Virginia, on July 17, 2015. The "Let's Fly Wisely&qu... More...

Using Autonomous Surface Vehicles for Passive Acoustic Monitoring (Room 275-276)

03 May 16
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Five years on from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, work is still ongoing to assess and repair the damage caused by the sunken rig. Millions of gal... More...

Challenges of Integrating Large Ground Systems (Room 278-282)

03 May 16
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): John Beck ; Matthew Dooley ; Stuart Hatfield
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Indoor Aerial Vehicle Navigation Using Ultra Wideband Active Two-way Ranging (Room 283-285)

03 May 16
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Speaker(s): Brandon Dewberry
Precision, robust localization is a key requirement for the safe and effective use of mobile robots. Ultra Wideband (UWB) ranging and communication... More...

Pathfinder UAS Projects Update (Room 288-290)

03 May 16
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Alan Kraft ; Greg Agvent ; John Walker ; Todd Graetz ; Tyler Collins
On May 6, 2015 the FAA announced the UAS Focus Area Pathfinders initiative, a partnership with industry to explore the next steps in unmanned aircr... More...

Future Directions for Army UAS (Room 293-296)

03 May 16
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): COL Courtney Cote ; COL Paul Cravey ; Glenn Rizzi ; Jay Sawyer ; John Burke ; Tory Burgess
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Drone Data Privacy, Protection, Chain of Custody: The Future of UAS Data Acquisition, Storage and Dissemination (Room 298-299)

03 May 16
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Biren Gandhi ; Dan Schwarzbach ; Jason Barton ; Kyle Snyder ; Nazlin Kanji
UAS are only used for the data they produce and yet while significant attention is paid to the physical characteristics of the platforms themselves... More...

Complex UAS Legal, Legislative & Regulatory Policy Issues Explained (Room Innovation Hub – Booth 2717)

03 May 16
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Speaker(s): Courtney Bateman ; John Perry ; Shawn Bullard
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Thermal Sensors for Mapping and Modeling with UAVs (Room 261-262)

03 May 16
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Speaker(s): Antoine Martin
Introduction will be on thermal imagery and its developing applications through mapping and modeling. The session will give real-application exampl... More...

Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) and Situational Awareness for Pilots in UAS Operations (Room 271-272)

03 May 16
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Speaker(s): Heather K. Harris-Aguirre
This report and the presentation to the AUVSI Xponential audience will focus on the various ways safety factors can be quantified in the new paradi... More...

Trusted Autopilot Architecture for GPS-Denied and Experimental UAV Operations (Room 283-285)

03 May 16
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Unmanned and autonomous systems require a great deal of human trust, especially in order to gain acceptance in high-risk mission applications. In t... More...

Time of Flight Flash LIDAR: Are Real-Time 3D Images the New Normal? (Room 261-262)

03 May 16
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Brian Peace
Time of Flight Flash LiDAR - Are real-time 3D images the new normal? The commercial UAV market offers a broad and increasing range of business appl... More...

Creative Equipage for Addressing Worldwide UAS Regulatory Constraints (Room 271-272)

03 May 16
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Wendie Kellington
Absent definitive ICAO guidance, worldwide UAS regulations are all over the map in terms of what's allowed when, where, and by whom. Countries ... More...

Demonstration of an Aerial and Submersible Vehicle Capable of Flight and Underwater Navigation (Room 283-285)

03 May 16
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Francisco Diez
Unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles (UUVs and AUVs) have become quite popular over the last decade with much focus on underwater gliders and fl... More...

Manning the Unmanned Brand (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2717)

03 May 16
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Daniel Hill
The vast amount of opportunities for unmanned vehicles in combination with a rapidly emerging market creates a tremendous risk to the unmanned syst... More...

Unmanned Aircraft Traffic Management (UTM) (Room 261-262)

03 May 16
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Speaker(s): Leonard Ligon
The Unmanned Aircraft System is the fastest growing new technology to come since the advent of public access to aviation for commercial transport. ... More...

Application of Unmanned Systems to Wildlife Research and Management (Room 265-268)

03 May 16
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): David Bird ; Jeff Sloan ; John Petersen ; Katie Sweeney ; Todd Jacobs
One area that continues to show great potential for the applications of UVS and associated markets is wildlife research and management. Application... More...

ICAO RPAS Panel Update (Room 271-272)

03 May 16
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
During this presentation, attendees will receive up-to-date information concerning the ICAO Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Panel which is now in... More...

Integrating Project Lifesaver and the Indago UAS (Room 275-276)

03 May 16
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Speaker(s): Gene Saunders
CEO & Founder of Project Lifesaver International, Gene Saunders will provide an overview of the Project Lifesaver program, how it works, and th... More...

Defense Leadership Perspectives: UAS Programs, Operations and Requirements (Room 278-282)

03 May 16
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): COL Courtney Cote ; Katherine Lemos ; Mark Darrah ; Robert Girrier ; Travis Burdine ; William Irby
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DOD Ground Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Room 283-285)

03 May 16
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): John Thane ; Keith Singleton ; Michael Dvorak ; Steve Olson ; Stuart Hatfield
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Unmanned Maritime Operations: UUV and USV Operator Lessons Learned (Room 288-290)

03 May 16
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Doug Cronin ; Sean Halpin ; Vince Dobbin
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ASSURE Research Panel: Status of UAS Research and Rulemaking (Room 293-296)

03 May 16
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Dallas Brooks ; Ellen Bass ; Gerado Olivares ; James Poss ; Kurt Carraway ; Kyle Snyder ; Mark Askelson ; Marty Rogers ; Richard Stansbury ; Sabrina Saunders-Hodge
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Drones in the Field: Business Cases for the Agriculture Industry (Room 298-299)

03 May 16
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Baptiste Tripard ; Brad Anderson ; Chad Colby ; Nolan Berg ; Tom McKinnon
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DRONE 2.0: UAV Cloud Distributed 3D Printing (CD/3D) Process (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2717)

03 May 16
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Speaker(s): Ben Berry
DRONE 2.0 – UAV/UUV Cloud Distributed 3D Printing (CD/3D) Process. AirShip Technologies Group’s turn-key process for 3D printing carbon... More...

Unmanned Systems: Global Growth in the Next Decade (Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2717)

03 May 16
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Air, land and sea based Unmanned Systems are finding rapidly increasing applications and market growth on a global scale. This presentation will lo... More...

Management of UAS Operations within the Oil and Gas Industry (Room 261-262)

03 May 16
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Todd Chase
A technical review of the first ever oil and gas industry guidelines developed by major oil companies working together as members of the Helicopter... More...

Testing Protocols and Sharing Testing Best Practices Discussion Group (Room 278-282)

03 May 16
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Speaker(s): Warren Freda ; William Bowes
Join the moderators from Monday’s Testing Protocols and Sharing Testing Best Practices workshop as they discuss the qualification and certifi... More...

Using UAS for Agricultural Applications (Room 278-282)

03 May 16
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Speaker(s): Chad Colby
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