Assured Autonomy in Contest Environments (AACE)
Spring 2022 Review
Venue
Format:The program review will be held in a hybrid format on April 7th. The meeting is an open meeting; however, attendees must register (free registration). The presentation slides will be posted.
Location of Venue: The Seymour Marine Discovery Center, Room La Feliz https://www.google.com/maps/place/Seymour+Marine+Discovery+Center/@36.9491338,-122.0670815,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808e6a0ca01e69c5:0x829521e412964087!8m2!3d36.9492169!4d-122.0649417?shorturl=1
The address of the venue is 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.
Parking: Drive to the venue, park at the parking lot at the very end of the road (to your left), and use code SM7606 into the parking pass machine located in the parking lot.
Zoom link for presenters and remote attendees: Presentations will be in person, and streamed via Zoom for remote attendees. https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97892716359?pwd=WjhHcnVMUHF6MWVYSXYzaTFaL0JDUT09 Meeting ID: 978 9271 6359 Passcode: 098325
Agenda for April 7th
- 8:30-9:00 Registration/Badging
- 9:00-9:10 Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Logistics
- Ricardo Sanfelice
- 9:10-9:35 Center Overview, Workforce Development and AFRL Collaboration
- Warren Dixon (Slides)
- 9:35-10:05 Disentangling Categorization in Multi-agent Emergent Communication
- Introduction by Kevin Butler followed with talk by Washington Garcia (PhD student) (Slides)
- 10:05-10:35 Planning Not to Talk: Multiagent Systems that are Robust to Communication Loss
- Mustafa Karabag and Cyrus Neary (Slides)
- 10:35-11:00 Break
- 11:00-11:30 Linear Regularizers Enforce the Strict Saddle Property
- Intro by Matthew Hale, followed with talk by Matthew Ubl (PhD student)
- 11:30-12:00 Opportunistic Hybrid Control with Uncertified Feedback Algorithms
- 12:00-1:15 Lunch (provided on-site)
- 1:15-1:45 POMDP Methods for Optimal Timing Synchronization and Distributed Tracking in Three Dimensions
- Introduction by John Shea, followed with talk by Caleb Bowyer (PhD student) (Slides)
- 1:45-2:15 Risk-averse Online Learning: from Multi-Armed Bandits with Unobserved Confounders to Convex Games
- Yi Shen (PhD student supervised by Michael Zavlanos) (Slides)
- 2:15-2:45 Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking of Spacecraft using Hierarchical Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
- Anthony Allen (PhD student supervised by Norman Fitz-Coy) (Slides)
- 2:45-3:00 Break
- 3:00-3:30 Resiliency of Perception-Based Control
- Miroslav Pajic (Slides)
- 3:30-4:00 Uncertainty, Optimality, and Constrained Control
- Warren Dixon (Slides)
- 4:00-4:15 Concluding Remarks
- 4:15-5:00 Closed Program Review Discussion between PMs and PIs