AIAA Intelligent Systems Technical Committee

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Chair: Natasha Neogi -- Chair-elect: Justin Bradley
Secretary: Kerianne Hobbs -- Co-chair: John Valasek
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The AIAA Intelligent Systems Technical Committee (ISTC) is concerned with the application of Intelligent System (IS) technologies and methods to aerospace systems, the verification and validation of these systems, and the education of the AIAA membership in the use of IS technologies in aerospace and other technical disciplines.


Intelligent Systems Workshop

Dates: June 25-26, 2024

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

The 9th annual Intelligent Systems Workshop will take place June 25-26, 2024, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, NE.

Please see the UNL website for the agenda, workshop registration, and the most up-to-date information! https://nimbus.unl.edu/aiaa-istc-workshop

This year’s workshop theme: Safety in Intelligent Aerospace Systems

Join us for two days of technical sessions covering a wide range of topics. Engage with top experts in the field through interactive topic panels, participate in exciting breakout sessions, hear from some of the nation’s brightest students in the student poster and lightning talk competitions, and tour local areas in the region.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Dr. Jim Paunicka (Technical Fellow, Autonomy Capabilities Team, Boeing CTO Office) and Dr. Steve Chien (JPL Fellow, Supervisor of the Artificial Intelligence Group).

Registration is open! Click here: https://marketplace.unl.edu/engineering/aiaa-istc-workshop-2024.html

For more information, see: this set of pages or https://nimbus.unl.edu/aiaa-istc-workshop

Program: the final agenda is now available here!

Agenda (last updated 2024-06-25, see UNL website for most recent version):

Tuesday, 25 June 2024:

Start-End Event Location
8:00a-8:35a Registration KH 2nd Floor
8:35a-8:50a Welcome KH A203
8:50a-9:50a Keynote:
Dr. Jim Paunicka, Technical Fellow,
Autonomy Capabilities Team, Boeing CTO Office
KH A203
9:50a-10:05a Group Photo Basement KH
10:05a-10:25a Coffee Break KH 2nd Floor
. Technical session 1: Assured Navigation and Perception KH A203
10:25a-11:05a Plenary:
Carrick Detweiler, Drone Amplified
11:05a-11:20a Panelist:
Issa Nesnas, California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory
11:20a-11:35a Panelist:
Benjamin Bycroft, Aerospace Corporation
11:35a-11:50a Panelist :
Joshua Mangelson, BYU
11:50a-12:20p Panel discussion
12:20p-1:20p Lunch KH A203
1:20p-2:40p (1) NIMBUS Lab,
(2) Center for Electro-Optics and Functionalized Surfaces (CEFS),
(3) Smart Materials and Robotics Laboratory
(1) 2nd floor Schorr Center
(2) ERC D027
(3) ERC D271C
2:40p-3:00p Coffee break KH 2nd Floor
3:00p-4:40p (1) Student Lightning Talk Competition + (2) Student Poster Session (1) KH A203
(2) KH A211
4:40p-5:20p Break
5:20p-7:50p TC Meeting (ISTC Picture 5:30, Dinner acquisition 5:45, TC meeting start 6:00) KH A203


Wednesday, 26 June 2024:

Start-End Event Location
8:00a-8:30a Registration and continental breakfast KH 2nd Floor
8:30a-9:30a Keynote:
Dr. Steve Chien, JPL Fellow, Supervisor of the Artificial Intelligence Group
KH A203
9:30a-9:50a Coffee break KH 2nd Floor
. Technical session 2: Trustworthy Autonomous Decisions and Control KH A203
9:50a-10:30a Plenary:
Luca Carlone, MIT
10:30a-10:45a Panelist:
Wes Ryan, Northop Grumman
10:45a-11:00a Panelist:
Hoang-Dung Tran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
11:00a-11:15a Panelist:
Kerianne Hobbs, Air Force Research Laboratory
11:15a-11:40a Panel discussion
11:40a-1:00p Lunch + Student Awards + Open Mic Session KH A203
1:00p-3:00p Breakout sessions - (1) Assured Navigation and Perception (Luca Carlone),
(2) Trustworthy Autonomous Decisions and Control (Kerianne Hobbs, Chetan Kulkarni),
(3) Autonomy/AI in the Aerospace Curriculum (Dani Selva)
(1) KH A211
(2) KH A253
(3) KH A251
3:00p-3:30p Coffee break KH 2nd Floor
3:30p-4:15p Breakout Session Outbriefs; outline towards a position paper from AIAA ISTC KH A203
4:15p-4:25p Concluding remarks KH A203
4:25p-4:45p Break
4:45p-5:15p Travel to SAC
5:15p-8:15p Dinner at Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum 28210 W. Park Hwy,
Ashland, NE 68003



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