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Autonomy and UAS I
Technical Session A: Tues. May 5, 2026
Cooperative UxS Autonomy with Graph Neural Networks
Jared Cooper,
Osama Ennasr,
Matthew Lichter,
Aaron Olowin,
Siji Chen,
Chang-Tien Lu,
Andrew Peters,
Andrew Carson
Enabling Autonomy (Presentation Only)
David Arterburn,
Carl Ott,
Cauvin Polycarpe
Loss of Well Clear (LoWC) Prevention in Multi-Drone Encounters using Kinodynamic Motion Planning
Navid Dadkhah Tehrani,
David Mooney,
Sean Carlson,
Igor Cherepinsky
Multi-vehicle Control and Estimation for Cooperative Atmospheric Sampling
Jared Cooper,
Osama Ennasr,
Andrew Peters,
Jeremy Hopwood,
Stephan De Wekker,
Craig Woolsey,
Andrew Carson
Vision-based Non-Cooperative Intruder Detect and Avoid using Deep Learning Techniques
Navid Dadkhah Tehrani,
Rikhil Amonkar,
Justin Weintraub,
Sean Carlson,
Igor Cherepinsky
Autonomy and UAS II
Technical Session B: Wed. May 6, 2026
Adaptive Outer-Loop Control of Quadrotors via Reinforcement Learning
Vishnu Saj,
Sushil Vemuri,
Dileep Kalathil,
Moble Benedict
Evaluation of Fully Autonomous Shipboard Operations at the Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin
Andrew Jue,
Jack Prewitt,
Darius Arnold,
Dario Zimmerschied,
Joseph Horn,
Jack Langelaan,
Anish Sydney
Mode-Change Philosophy and Implementation within a DEVS-Based Supervisory Controller for Autonomous Helicopter
Curtis Winstanley,
Iryna Borshchova
Vision-based Quadrotor Landing Tests on a Large Stochastic Platform under Degraded Visibility
Kumardip Basak,
Anubhav Datta,
Inderjit Chopra