Geogria Institute of Technology

For more information, or to register: www.ae.gatech.edu/decisioncontrol
2-day workshop, June 11-12, 2012
 
Program/Agenda
Keynotes
1.Decisions in Predictive Location and Mapping: Challenges and Opportunities
         John Junkins, Texas A&M
2.Improving the Operational and Environmental Efficiency of Air Transportation
         R. John Hansman, MIT
 
Session on Aircraft Control - Organiser: John Valasek, Texas A&M
1.Rapid Configuration, Testing and Fielding of Flight Control Systems
        Vlad Gavrilets, Rockwell Collins Control Technologies
2.TBD
        John Valasek, Texas A&M
3.Software assurance for Aircraft Controls
        Eric Feron, Georgia Tech
 
Session on Aircraft Autonomy -
Organisers: Leena Singh & Piero Miotto, CS Draper Laboratory
1.From Dynamically Scaled High Risk Flight Testing to Learn-to-Fly: Control Enabled Capabilities for Autonomous Flight
         Irene M. Gregory, NASA Langley
2.Interval Management: A NextGen Application to Precisely Space Aircraft in the National Airspace System
        Lesley A. Weitz, MITRE Corporation
3.The future of Autonomy in Naval Air Systems
       Glenn Colby, L3 Communications
4.Autonomous Landing in Challenging Scenarios
       James Paduano, Aurora Flight Sciences
5.Addressing the Limits to Unmanned Vehicle Autonomy Through Human-Computer Collaboration
        Andrew Clare, MIT and Mary Cummings, Office of Naval Research
 
Session on Spacecraft Control - Organiser: Fred Hadaegh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1.This session will bring together world experts at spacecraft control systems. They will be discussing new Guidance and Control Technologies for planetary landing and multi-spacecraft collaborative control activities.
 
Session on Spacecraft Autonomy - Organiser: Marco Pavone, Stanford University
1.Spacecraft Autonomy at NASA Ames
         Chad R. Frost, NASA Ames
2.Spacecraft Autonomy at APL
         George J. Cancro, John Hopkins University
3.Autonomy for JPL Planetary Rovers
          Issa A.D. Nesnas, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
 
Session on Engine Control - Organiser: Ramesh Rajagopalan, Pratt & Whitney
1.TBD
 
Session on Air Traffic Control - Organiser: Hamsa Balakrishnan, MIT
1.Distributed Scheduling and Routing Algorithms
           Claire Tomlin, UC Berkeley - tentative
2.Probabilistic Conflict Resolution
            Inseok Hwang, Purdue University
3.Airport Operations Control Using Approximate Dynamic Programming
            Hamsa Balakrishnan, MIT