Panel: Challenges on Autonomy, Verification, and Distributed Decision and Action

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Visible to the public Panel Presentation: The Future Trends of Autonomy

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Mr Jacob Hinchman is the Technical Area Lead for Certification Technologies of Complex Systems assigned to the Air Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Labs at Wright Patterson AFB, OH. Upon receiving a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and through the ROTC program, Jacob was commissioned in May 1998. Afterwards he attended Georgia Institute of

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Visible to the public Panel Presentation: Autonomy, Authority and Human Interaction

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For pioneering researcher Ruzena Bajcsy, fostering cutting-edge technology to improve people's lives is a noble challenge. Dr. Bajcsy took the helm at CITRIS in November 2001, after devoting more than 30 years of her life to research in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence and machine perception. Bajcsy's credentials reach across the traditionally discrete fields of neuroscience, applied mechanics and computer science. She is a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, a distinction few people can match.

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Visible to the public Panel Presentation: Autonomy, Authority and Human Interaction Challenges in Air Transportation Systems

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My current research interests are in developing tools aimed at improving the efficiency of the National Airspace System: these include techniques for the collection and processing of data, mechanisms for the allocation of airport and airspace resources to airlines, and algorithms for the scheduling and routing of air traffic. I am also interested in the design of algorithms for the tracking and managing identities of maneuvering targets in sensor networks, particularly the air traffic management system of the United States.

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Visible to the public Panel Presentation: Challenges to Autonomy Organizational Perspective

Summarizes the OV-4 mappings developed by the Joint Planning & Development Office that tracks and supports the coordination of the UAS community by stakeholder types. Provides a perspective of the number of different requirement sets that can co-exist just within a community. Lastly, even though the mapping does a commendable job of addressing the direct UAS community the briefing highlights that coordination/mapping is missing other related communities that are related by the Cyber Physical System commonalities.