The 2-day ULI annual review will be held on November 14 and 15. Below is the agenda for the event.
Day 1 (November 14, 2023)
Location: Illini Union 314a
0830-0900 Breakfast
0900-1020 Towards Certification of L1 Adaptive Controller: Overview of Industrial Practices
0900-0910 Opening speech (Harley Johnson and Naira Hovakimyan)
0910-0930 Lui Sha: The importance of certification in AAM
0930-1010 Christopher Elliott: TRL improvement at Lockheed Martin with L1 adaptive controller
1010-1020 Learjet flight test engineer (FTE) Jessica “Sting” Peterson: User experience of flying Learjet with L1 adaptive controller
1020-1035 Coffee break
1035-1135 Research updates in Thrust 4 on testing, evaluation, and integration toward technology transfer (15 min each)
1035-1050 Petros Voulgaris and Hyung-Jin Yoon (University of Nevada, Reno)
1050-1105 Christos Papachristos (University of Nevada, Reno)
1105-1120 Andy Smith: Development of photorealistic simulator for validation of AAM models at Sierra Nevada
1120-1135 Srinivasa Salapaka (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
1135-1215 Discussion on industrial practices
1215-1315 Lunch break
1315-1415 Research updates in Thrust 1 on safe learning-enabled and competence-aware autonomy stack (15 min each)
1315-1330 Naira Hovakimyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
1330-1345 Bo Li (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
1345-1400 Evangelos Theodorou (Georgia Institute of Technology)
1400-1415 Ayoosh Bansal and Simon Yu (Ph.D. students of Lui Sha, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
1415-1445 Research updates in Thrust 2 on fast data-driven and code-level verification (15 min each)
1415-1430 Sayan Mitra (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
1430-1445 Chuchu Fan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
1445-1530 Research updates in Thrust 3 on runtime fault diagnosis and reachability analysis for in-flight contingency management (15 min each)
1445-1500 Ali Kairmoddini (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University)
1500-1515 Ioannis Raptis (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University)
1515-1530 Melkior Ornik (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
1530-1545 Outreach (Joe Muskin)
1545-1600 Coffee break
1600-1700 Discussion Session
1700-1800 Posters by students and postdocs
1800 Dinner by Illini Catering
Day 2 (November 15, 2023)
Location: John Deere Hall, 2005 MEL
0900-1100 Advisory board discussion
1100-1200 Discussion between the ULI team and advisory board
1200 Lunch