Assured Autonomy in Contest Environments (AACE)
Spring 2025 Review
Format:The program review will be held on February 12-13th. The meeting is an open meeting for regestered attendees. To (free) register, please use this link. The presentation slides will be posted.
Presentations will be in person, and streamed via Zoom for remote attendees.
Registrants will be provided a ZoomGov link.
Location
The Program review will be held at the Basic Research Innovation Collaboration Center (BRICC) located at 4100 North Fairfax Drive #450, Arlington, VA 22203.
Agenda for February 12th
- 8:00-8:30 Registration and Badging
- 8:30-8:35 Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Logistics (Fred Leve)
- 8:35-9:10 Center Overview, Workforce Development and AFRL Collaboration
- Warren Dixon, University of Florida
- 9:20-9:50 Modeling and Countering Misinformation in Adversarial Information Ecosystems
- Ege Bayiz, Arash Amini, and Ufuk Topcu, University of Texas
- 10:00-10:30 Securing Autonomy for Contested World
- Miroslav Pajic, Duke University
- 10:30-11:30 Poster Session
- 11:30-1:15 Lunch
- 1:15-1:45 Reinforcement Learning for Joint Optimization of Sensing, Communications, and Control
- John Shea, University of Florida
- 1:55-2:25 Deep Learning and Graphical Neural Networks for Autonomy
- Brandon Fallin and Warren Dixon, University of Florida
- 2:35-2:45 Coffee Break
- 2:45-3:15 Decentralized decision-making in the presence of adversaries
- Matthew Hale, Georgia Tech
- 3:25-3:55 Distributionally Robust Policy Evaluation and Learning
- Yi Shen and Michael Zavlanos, Duke University
- 4:05-4:35 Robust Autonomy in Contested Environments via Hybrid Feedback Control
- Carlos Montenegro, Nan Wang, and Ricardo Sanfelice, University of California Santa Cruz
- Facilities Close at 4:45
Agenda for February 13th
- 8:00-8:30 Registration and Badging
- 8:30-9:00 Enhancing Spacecraft Autonomy and Mission Success in Harsh Environments Via Computational Throttling and Risk Governors
- Channing Ludden and Chrispy Petersen University of Florida
- 9:10-9:40 Applications of Recursive Optimization to Simulated Spacecraft Docking
- Anthony Aborizk and Norman Fitz-Coy, University of Florida
- 9:50-10:00 Coffee Break
- 10:00-10:30 Active Mitigation of Space Weather Impacts on Spacecraft
- Alicia Petersen, University of Florida
- 10:40-11:10 Protecting the Privacy of Computing Operations and Data in Autonomous Environments
- Caroline Fedele and Kevin Butler, University of Florida
- 11:20-11:30 Concluding Remarks
- Warren Dixon, University of Florida
- 11:30-12:00 Government Caucus