Assured Autonomy in Contest Environments (AACE)
Fall 2020 Review
Venue
The program review will be held through a video conference (zoom) format on October 29th and 30th. The meeting is an open meeting. The presentations will be recorded and posted.
Agenda for October 29th (times are EST)
- 1:00-1:20 Center Overview, Workforce Development and AFRL Collaboration
- 1:20-1:40 Framework Development for Swarm Analysis and Design
- 1:40-2:00 “Scalable” Synthesis in Uncertain POMDPs
- 2:00-2:20 Differentially Private Formation Control
- 2:20-2:40 Differentially Private MDPs
- 2:40-3:00 Break
- 3:00-3:20 CubeSat Adaptive Attitude Control with Uncertain Drag Coefficient and Atmospheric Density
- 3:20-3:40 Zeroth-Order Distributed and Online Learning
- 3:40-4:00 Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for Control Synthesis for MDPs and Stochastic Games
- 4:00-4:20 Model-Based Reinforcement Learning: Sparse Learning, Switched Systems, and Deep Prospects
- 4:20-4:40 Hybrid Algorithms for Parameter Estimation in Static and Dynamical Systems
- 4:40-5:00 Open Discussion
- All Attendees (not recorded)
Agenda for October 30th
- 1:00-1:10 Welcome & Overview
- Warren Dixon
- 1:10-1:35 Guaranteeing Safety in Control Systems with Intermittent Information
- 1:35-2:00 Hybrid Optimization: Accelerating Convergence with Robustness in Optimization-Based Feedback Control
- 2:00-2:10 Lyapunov-based MTL methods for network problems
- 2:10-2:20 Zeroing Barrier Functions for Adaptive Control
- 2:20-2:40 Asynchronous Constrained Convex Optimization in Blocks
- 2:40-3:00 Break
- 3:00-3:20 Hard-label Manifolds: Unexpected Advantages of Query Efficiency for Finding On-Manifold Adversarial Examples
- 3:20-3:40 Self/Event Trigger with Byzantine Agents & Cluster Networks
- 3:40-4:00 Distributed beamforming in adversarial environments
- 4:00-4:20 Statistical Model Checking for Security-Related Hyperproperties
- 4:20-4:30 Break
- 4:30-5:00 Open Discussion with AFRL/AFOSR
- AFRL/AFOSR program managers (not recorded)