The dates of the AUV 2024 Symposium will begin:
Evening of Wednesday, September 18th
All-day Thursday, September 19th
All-day Friday, September 20th
*Please make sure all presentations are 12 mins and Q&A will be 3 mins during presenters’ 15 min timeframe.
Sep 18th
5:00pm-6:00pm Registration; Meet and Greet 6pm-8pm Light Snacks and Drinks at 17th floor East Village
Sep 19th
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 | ||
| 18:00-20:00 | 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 | Eirik 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 |