Office of Naval Research
Summer 2001 Program Review on
Distributed and Network-Centric Autonomous Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles
“Self-Sustaining Intelligent Unattended Netted Force”

August 1-3, 2001, UC Berkeley

This webpage is intended as a central repository where all presentations given during this conference may be downloaded.  Some of the files are rather large in size, so a fast connection is recommended.  Any comments or questions should be directed to Joel Moldenhauer
 

Last Updated: 09/14/2001

1 August, 2001

0800-0900

Registration and Breakfast

 

0900-0915

ONR Program Overview

Dr. Moshfegh, ONR

0915-0930

Autonomous Operations FNC Program Overview (2.2MB/PPT)

Mr. Deitchman, ONR

0930-1015

Overview Of Intelligent Autonomous Agents: Convergence Of Communications, Networking, Adaptive Control, And Real-Time Distributed Computing (.4MB/PDF)

Dr. Varaiya, UC Berkeley

1015-1030

Break

 

1030-1100

Distributed And Decentralized Autonomous Control Of Hybrid And Heterogeneous Unmanned Systems (4.7MB/PPT)

Dr. Sastry, UC Berkeley

1100-1130

UAV/UGV Swarm: Autonomous Formation Flight, Dynamic Clustering, And Self-Reconfiguration (10.5MB/PPT)

Dr. Hedrick, UC Berkeley

1130-1200

Information Distribution: Service Networking And Data Provisioning For Organization Of Mobile Unmanned Agents (4.8MB/PPT)

Dr. Sengupta, UC Berkeley

1200-1400

Transportation to The Richmond Field Station (RFS) and Lunch

 

1400-1800

Demo 1: Communication Testbed Introduction And Demonstrations

University of California Berkeley Team

Demo 2: UAV-UGV Pursuit-Evasion Demonstration Introduction And Demo

Demo 3: UAV Vision Based Landing Demonstration Introduction And Demo

Demo 4: Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) Demonstration Introduction And Demo

Demo 5: Automated Highway-Car Demonstration

1800-1900

Transportation to Berkeley Marina Radisson

 

1900-2200

Dinner at Berkeley Marina Radisson

 

2 August, 2001

0800-0810

Overview Of Autonomous Collaborative Agents In Wireless Environment (5.1MB/PPT)

Dr. Ortiz, SRI

0810-0840

Distributed Continual Planning & Execution For Autonomous Air Vehicles (5.1MB/PPT)

Dr. Ortiz, SRI

0840-0900

Intelligent Reactive Control For Distributed Autonomous Mobile Agent Networks (1.8MB/PPT)

Dr. Ruspini, SRI

0900-0930

Routing Protocols For Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (3.1MB/PPT)

Mr. Templin, SRI

0930-0945

Break

 

0945-1000

Demo Preview

Dr. Berry, SRI

1000-1200

Demo 1: Autonomous Teams And Collaboration Software

SRI Team

Demo 2: Wireless Dynamic Internetworking

1200-1330

Lunch and Posters

 

1330-1400

Network Optimization And Semantic Control For Remote Autonomous Vehicles

Dr. Nygard, NDSU

1400-1430

Aggressive Path Planning For Multiple Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (12.8MB/PS)

Dr. Feron, MIT

1430-1500

Intrinsic Robustness Of Internal-Model Based Control >And Stabilization For Navigation> (.8MB/PPT)

Dr. Isidori, U of Rome

1500-1530

Break and Posters

 

1530-1600

Modeling And Complexity Reduction Methods For Interconnected Systems And Networks (.3MB/PPT)

Dr. Beck, U of Illinois Urb-Champ

1600-1630

Control Of Exponentially Unstable Air Vehicles With Saturating Actuators (2.1MB/PPT)

Dr. Lin, UVA

1630-1730

UAV SBIR Projects And Interactive War-Gaming Simulation Environment Demo (2.3MB/PDF)

Dr. Mehra/Miller, SSCI/Boeing

3 August, 2001

0800-0830

Internet-In-The-Sky Program Overview: Mobile Intelligent Network Of Unattended Multimedia Agents

Dr. Villasenor, UCLA

0830-0900

Next Generation Modeling & Simulation Tools For Global Networks (2.5MB/PPT)

Dr. Bagrodia UCLA

0900-0920

Adaptive Software Radios for Dynamic Adaptation in Mobile Internetworked QoS-Aware Uninhabited Environments (2.8MB/PPT)

Dr. Kazi  Honeywell

0920-0940

Radio Technology for Adaptive QoS (5.7MB/PPT)

Dr. Martin  ITT

0940-1015

Break and Posters

 

1015-1045

Flexible Radio Architecture, Design And Prototyping For Military Communications (4.1MB/PPT)

Dr. Daneshrad, UCLA

1045-1115

Robust And Adaptive Transmission (.2MB/PPT)

Dr. Pottie, UCLA

1115-1145

Ad Hoc Networks (4.7MB/PPT)

Dr. Gerla, UCLA

1145-1300

Lunch and Posters

 

1300-1330

Adaptive Multi-Layered Dynamic Backbone For Mobile Wireless Networks (1.8MB/PPT)

Dr. Rubin, UCLA

1330-1400

Proactive And Energy-Efficient Middleware (1.7MB/PPT)

Dr. Srivastava, UCLA

1400-1430

Robust, Adaptive Image/Video Coding And Compression (.2MB/PPT)

Dr. Villasenor, UCLA

1430-1515

Break and Posters

 

1515-1545

Dynamic Adaptation In Mobile Internetworked QoS-Aware Uninhabited Environments (1.9MB/PPT)

Dr. Pavan, Honeywell

1545-1615

A Robust And Adaptive Communication System For Intelligent Autonomous Agents (.8MB/PPT)

Dr. Goldsmith, Stanford

1615-1645

Transporting Time Critical Data Over Dynamically Changing Wireless Networks (.4MB/PDF)

Dr. Kumar, UIUC

1645-1715

Biologically Inspired Reconfigurable Network Of Networks (1.6MB/PPT)

Dr. Sutton, Harvard