2018 Autonomy Workshop: Presentations and Videos
Updated: December 13, 2018 - Presentation videos and PDFs made available
Approx. Time | Wednesday, October 10 Location: Newell-Simon Hall, Room 3305 | Presenter | |
8:15 | Welcome/Introductions | Graham Mackintosh (BAERI/NASA) | |
8:25 | Welcome to CMU | David Wettergreen (CMU) | |
8:40 | Message from NASA Leadership | Thomas Zurbuchen (NASA) | |
9:00 | NASA Programmatic Overview | Michael Seablom (NASA) | |
9:05 | Keynote Speaker from Industry | Gur Kimchi (Amazon) | |
10:00 | Autonomy in NASA - Past/Present/Future | Rob Manning | |
11:15 | Design Reference Mission (DRM) Definition | Michael Seablom (NASA) | |
DRM Overview | DRM Leads, 5 minutes each | ||
11:20 | Moon | Emerson Speyerer (Arizona State University) | |
11:25 | Small Bodies | Issa Nesnas (NASA JPL) | |
11:30 | Venus | Pat Beauchamp (NASA JPL) | |
11:35 | Ocean Worlds | Tom Cwik (NASA JPL) | |
11:40 | Earth/Heliophysics | Mike Little (NASA) | |
11:45 | Astrophysics | Rudra Mukherjee (NASA JPL) | |
11:50 | Mars | Jen Eigenbrode (NASA) and Eric Lyness (NASA) | |
Lunch | |||
13:00 | Autonomy Overview | Terry Fong (NASA) | |
14:45 | Panel: Engaging and Innovating Through Collaboration: NASA/Industry/Academia | Jenn Gustetic (NASA) - moderator Bob Touchton (Leidos) John Thornton (Astrobotic) David Gump (Space Resources Consultant) | |
16:00 | Panel: Autonomy in the Wild: NASA/Industry/Academia | Terry Fong (NASA) - moderator Michael Wagner (Edge Case Research) David Wettergreen (CMU) Lute Maleki (Cruise Automation) Steve Chien (NASA) | |
Student Lightning Talks | |||
17:00 | Laika and Belka: Walking Robots with Flexible Spines | Andrew Sabelhaus (University of California, Berkeley) | |
17:05 | Multi-Arm Bandits for Automated Decision Making | Steve McGuire (Colorado University, Boulder) | |
17:10 | Convex Optimization-Baser Approaches for Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization | Abhishek Cauligi (Stanford University) | |
17:15 | Belief Space Planning for Reducing Terrain Relative Localization Uncertainty in Noisy Elevation Maps | Eugene Fang (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
17:20 | Multi-Agent Optimal Guidance and Control | Rebecca Foust (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) | |
17:25 | Shared Mental Models for Human-Robot Teaming in Space | Felix Gervits (Tufts University) | |
17:30 | Quantum Computing at NASA | Bryan O'Gorman (University of California, Berkeley and NASA Ames) | |
17:35 | Nonprehensile Terrain Manipulation on Planetary Exploration Rovers | Catherine Pavlov (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
17:40 | Cost Function Design for Planning in Robotic Systems | Ellis Ratner (University of California, Berkeley) | |
17:45 | Fully Adaptive Atmospheric Sensor on a 6U CubeSat and STARS: A Software Simulation Toolkit for Adaptive Sensing | Jakob DeLong (Ohio State University) | |
Approx. Time | Thursday, October 11 Location: Newell-Simon Hall, Room 3305, unless otherwise indicated | Presenter | |
8:00 | Welcome/recap/clarification of goals | Michael Seablom (NASA) | |
8:10 | Software Risk and Autonomy | Phil Koopman (CMU) | |
9:10 | Goals of DRM Breakout Discussions | Florence Tan (NASA) | |
9:15 | DRM Breakout Discussions | ||
12:00 | Lunch | ||
12:45 | DRM Breakout Discussions | ||
DRM Groups Report Out | DRM Leads, 15 minutes each | ||
14:45 | Moon | Emerson Speyerer (Arizona State University), Terry Fong (NASA), et al | |
15:00 | Venus | Pat Beauchamp (NASA JPL) | |
15:15 | Mars | Jen Eigenbrode (NASA) and Eric Lyness (NASA) | |
15:30 | Heliophysics | Larry Kepko (NASA) | |
15:45 | Astrophysics | Rudra Mukherjee (NASA JPL) | |
16:05 | Earth | Mike Little (NASA) | |
16:20 | Small Bodies | Issa Nesnas (NASA JPL) and Tim Swindle (University of Arizona) | |
16:35 | Ocean Worlds | Tom Cwik (NASA JPL) | |
17:05 | Closing Remarks | Michael Seablom (NASA) | |
17:13 | Acknowledgements | Florence Tan (NASA) | |
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