MAST 2011 Program Review
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Program Overview, Demonstrations, Joint Experiments, & Evening Reception
| Time | Project | Topic | Investigator | Presentation |
| 0800 | MAST Program Introduction | Dr. Joseph Mait, ARL | pdf Δ | |
| 0815 | Consortium Introduction to MAST | Dr. Larry Matthies, JPL | pdf Δ | |
| 0830 | MCE Thrust Overview | Prof. Sean Humbert, UMD | pdf Δ | |
| 0850 | SPP Thrust Overview | Dr. Larry Matthies, JPL | pdf Δ | |
| 0910 | CNC Thrust Overview | Dr. Leland Pierce, UMICH | pdf Δ | |
| 0930 | Joint Experiment Overviews | Dr. Larry Matthies, JPL | pdf Δ | |
| 0950 | Break | |||
| 1010 | Joint Experiment Demonstrations | |||
| 1. Capstone Event Storyboard | Dr. Larry Matthies, JPL | pdf Δ | ||
| 2. Urban dwelling approach and surveillance by multiple air vehicles | Prof. Nathan Michael & Prof. Vijay Kumar, UPENN | pdf Δ | ||
| 3. Autonomous vision-based landing | Patrick Bouffard & Roland Brockers, UCB | pdf Δ | ||
| 4. Gust Generation | Sam Zarovy & Kyle French, GATECH | pdf Δ | ||
| 5. Position hold in gust with coax helicopter | Sam Zarovy & Kyle French, GATECH | |||
| 6. Vision-based station keeping | Dr. Larry Matthies, JPL | pdf Δ | ||
| 7. Parameter estimation for flight in gusts | Daniel Mellinger and Vijay Kumar, UPENN | pdf Δ | ||
| 8. Micro-quadrotor flight | Dr. Paul Samuel, Daedalus Flight Systems & Prof. Sean Humbert, UMD | pdf Δ | ||
| 9. Exploration and mapping in unknown environments (without VICON) | Profs. Nathan Michael and Vijay Kumar, UPENN | pdf Δ | ||
| 10. Maneuvering in constrained environments, Deployment of small ground robots | Prof. Vijay Kumar, UPENN & Prof. Ron Fearing, UCB | pdf Δ | ||
| 11. Goal-seeking behavior of crawler on smooth ground | Prof. Ron Fearing, UCB | pdf Δ | ||
| 12. RF Repeater for ISR Exfiltration | Prof. Kamal Sarabandi, UMICH | pdf Δ | ||
| 13. Recap and Path Forward | Dr. Larry Matthies, JPL | pdf Δ | ||
| 1200 | Lunch | |||
| 1300 | J1 | Advanced Sensing, Navigation, and Mobility Concepts – Ground Vehicles - | Prof. Ron Fearing, UCB | pdf Δ |
| 1330 | J2 | Advanced Sensing and Mobility Concepts – Dynamic Flight | Dr. Paul Samuel, Daedalus Flight Systems & Prof. Mark Costello, GaTech | pdf Δ |
| 1430 | J3 | Communications for Heterogeneous Robot Ensembles in Complex Environments | Prof. Vijay Kumar, UPENN | pdf Δ |
| 1500 | Break | |||
| 1520 | J4 | Air-ground collaboration for exploration, mapping, and persistent surveillance | Prof. Vijay Kumar, UPENN | pdf Δ |
| 1500 | Discussion | |||
| 1630 | Reception/Buffet Dinner and Hardware Display |