Conference Schedule

5:00pm-6:00pm Registration; Meet and Greet 6pm-8pm Light Snacks and Drinks at 17th floor East Village

Sep 19^th

7:00-8:00 Registration & Breakfast

	8:00-8:45	Plenary Speaker: David Caress	Title of talk : The MBARI Low Altitude Survey System for 1-cm-scale seafloor surveys in the deep ocean
Session1	8.45-10.30	Control and Navigation 1
	8:45-9:00	Taesik Kim	Optimal Control of Dual Buoyancy Controllers for Underwater Walking on Various Slopes
	9:00-9:15	Yuya Hamamatsu	Bayesian Optimization Based Self-Improving Sliding Mode Controller for a Bio-Inspired Marine Robot
	9:15-9:30	Markus Fossdal	Past-time Signal Temporal Logic Hybrid Switching Control for Underwater Vehicles
	9:30-9:45	Mahmoud Ibrahim	Enhancing AUV Dynamic Models for CFD-Derived Hydrodynamic Coefficients
	9:45-10:00	Nicholas Rypkema	Hybrid Long/Inverted Ultra-Short Baseline
	10-00-10:15	Giancarlo Troni	Toward 6-DOF Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Energy-Aware Position Control based on Deep Reinforcement Learning: Preliminary Results
	10:15-10:30	Nina Mahmoudian	Iterated UUV and UAS Spatial and Temporal Rendezvous for Coordinated Ocean Observation
	10:30-10:45	Coffee Break
Session2	10:45-12:00	Imaging
	10:45-11:00	Shuhb Jain	Adaptive Image Restoration and Object Detection and Tracking using Semantic Segmentation and Cross-Correlation based trackers for light-weight embedded devices
	11:00-11:15	Blair Thornton	Rapid Over-Horizon Awareness of AUV Image Datasets over Low Communication Bandwidths
	11:15-11:30	Joseph Edwards	Masked Structure-from-Motion: Novel View Synthesis in Undersea Operations
	11:30-11:45	Jordan Beason	Towards Low-Cost Real-Time Seafloor Featureless Visual Odometry
	11:45-12:00	Zhiyong Zhang	Online Stereo Camera Calibration for Underwater Imaging System
	12:00-13:00	Lunch & Poster Session
Session3	13:00-15:00	AI
	13:00-13:15	Gherardo Liverani	Comparative Analysis of CNN Models for Semantic Segmentation of Posidonia Oceanica Meadows
	13:15-13:30	Cailei Liang	Predicting seafloor visual classes from multimodal remote sensed priors using location-guided self-supervised learning
	13:30-13:45	Caroline Keenan	Human-aided Explainable AI Classification of Forward-Looking Sonar Imagery
	13:45-14:00	John Folkesson	NeuRSS: Enhancing AUV Localization and Bathymetric Mapping with Neural Rendering for Sidescan SLAM
	14:00-14:15	Ryan McCarthy	Machine Learning Transmission Loss Predictions in Acoustic Field Experiments
	14:15-14:30	Giancarlo Roni	Deep Reinforcement Learning Trajectory Control of Nonholonomic Autonomous Surface Vehicles in Challenging Wave Conditions: Theory and Preliminary Evaluation
	14:30-14:45	Lorenzo Cecchi	Advancements in instance segmentation for Forward-Looking Sonar imagery: a comparative analysis of state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network models
	14:46-15:00	Q&A
Session4	15:15-17:00	Platforms 1
	15:00-15:15	Coffee Break
	15:15-15:30	Christopher Morency	On the Relationship Between Forward-Looking Sonar Complexity and Best-Achievable Obstacle Avoidance Performance for AUVs
	15:30-15:45	Mingxi Zhou	Towards Modular and Accessible AUV Systems
	15:45-16:00	Marc Hildebrandt	Design of a Compact, Agile AUV with Large Thrust-to-Weight Ratio
	16:00-16:15	Christian Meurer	Spiraling Intelligent Robotic Underwater monitoring pLAtform (SPIRULA) – towards repeated, high density and low-cost seafloor monitoring
	16:15-16:30	Toby Schneider	JaiaBot: Open Source Multi-AUV System for Scalable Data Acquisition
	16:30-16:45	Michael Jakuba	Exploring the Aurora Vent Field: 4000 m Under Ice with the NUI Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle
	16:45-17:00	Q&A
	17:00-20:00	Dinner

Sep 20th

7:00-8:00 Registration & Breakfast

	8:00-8:45	Plenary Speaker: Elizabeth Clarke	Title of talk: Transforming fisheries science using autonomous underwater vehicles
Session5	8.45-10.30	Control and Navigation 2
	8:45-9:00	Alberto Consensi	Fusing Multiple Navigation Solutions for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
	9:00-9:15	Erik Lothe Foseid	Line-of-Sight Guidance: Learning to Look Ahead
	9:15-9:30	Hayato Kondo	Real-time Underwater Localization in 3D Environment
	9:30-9:45	Hanzhi Yang	Under-ice Trajectory Tracking for Underwater Gliders Using Fuzzy-based Adaptive Control
	9:45-10:00	Giancarlo Troni	Full Magnetometer and Gyroscope Bias Estimation
	10:00-10:30	Q&A
	10:30-10:45	Coffee Break
Session6	10:45-12:00	Platforms 2
	10:45-11:00	Bernardo Gabriel	Communications Module for a Light Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
	11:00-11:15	Josef Matous	Adaptive Hand Position for Underactuated Underwater Robot
	11:15-11:30	Adrian Bodenmann	Real-time Subsea Communication Cable Detection for AUV-based Inspection
	11:30-11:45	Richard Camilli	An Autonomous Underwater Glider with Improved Transport Efficiency
	11:45-12:00	Q&A
	12:00-13:00	Lunch & Poster Session
Session7	13:00-15:00	Modeling
	13:00-13:15	Seth McCammon	Predicting Time-Varying Flow Fields Using Sparse Observations with Self-Organizing Maps
	13:15-13:30	Jens Einar Bremnes	Adaptive AUV Planning For Robust Optical Object Inspection Using In-Situ Sonar Data
	13:30-13:45	Madeline Miller	Ocean state estimation via interior-plus-surface quasigeostrophy integrated with measurements onboard an autonomous underwater vehicle
	13:45-14:00	Antonio Oliveira	Sonar-based SLAM using Particle Filter and Free-Space Mapping Approach
	14:00-14:15	Alessandro Bucci	Outlier-robust Unscented Kalman Filters for multisensor autonomous underwater navigation
	14:15-14:30	Li Ling	Score-Based Multibeam Point Cloud Denoising
	14:30-14:45	Sam Fenton	Probabilistic Methods for Improved Self-consistency of Doppler Velocity Log Range-Based Bathymetry
	14:46-15:00	Q&A
	15:00-15:15	Coffee Break
Session8	15:15-17:00	Platforms 3
	15:15-15:30	Raymond Turrisi	The Spurdog AUV: A Field Configurable and Optionally A-Sized Low-Cost AUV
	15:30-15:45	Sakshi Singh	Design and Development of MeCO
	15:45-16:00	Richard Camilli	An Autonomous Underwater Glider with Improved Onboard Navigation for Unattended Mapping
	16:00-16:15	Joao Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa	Large scale evaluation and testing in operational environments: the REPMUS exercise
	16:15-16:30	Berke Gur	Project URSULA: Design of a Robotic Squid for Underwater Manipulation
	16:30-17:00	Q&A
	17:00	Adjourn