Theme: CNS/ATM Challenges for UAS Integration
April 18 – 20, 2017
Westin Washington Dulles Airport
Herndon, Virginia
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Overview | Day 1 Morning & Plenary | Day 2 Morning, Plenary & Workshop | Day 3 Morning & Plenary | Technical Program
| Time | Tuesday, April 18 | Wednesday, April 19 | Thursday, April 20 |
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| 7:00 AM | Registration & Breakfast (Rivanna D) | ||
| 8:00 AM Morning Sessions (Rivanna ABC)
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Introductions: Aloke Roy, Conference General Chair (Honeywell) | ||
| Conference Keynote: Jim Eck (FAA)
“ICNS Champion Award” presented to Diana Liang, FAA |
8:00 to 10:00 AM: Plenary II: Satellites for CNS, chaired by Rainer J. Koll (Stellar Solutions) & Nikos Fistas (EUROCONTROL)
Panelists: Michael Garcia (Aireon), Lisa Bee (Inmarsat), Brian Pemberton (Iridium), Vince Massimini (MITRE) |
“DATC Distinguished Institution Award” presented to Paul Bosman, EUROCONTROL
Plenary III: CNS for UAS Integration, chaired by Stephen Van Trees (FAA) & Paul Bosman (EUROCONTROL) Panelists: David Rhodes (MCRI), Erik Theunissen (Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA)), Ravi Jain (FAA), Pascal Barret (EUROCONTROL), Alex Engel (EUROCAE) and Jaewoo Jung (NASA) |
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| Plenary I: Global Harmonization, chaired by Steve Bradford (FAA) & Michael Standar (SJU)
Plenary Keynote: Steve Creamer (ICAO) Panelists: Paul Bosman (ECTL), Tokuaki Nakajima (ENRI), Chip Meserole, Ph.D., (Boeing), Patrick Schuster (Airbus) and Diane McClatchy (Rockwell Collins) |
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| 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM: Interactive Workshop: “Drones, the Sky’s the Limit,” chaired by Dr. Lance Sherry (George Mason University) and Denise Ponchak (NASA)
Participants: Kevin Hightower (AirMap), Brett Velicovich (Expert Drones), Basil Yap (North Carolina Department of Transportation), Jeff Breunig (Mitre, representing FAA UAS Pathfinder Program) Presentation of Best Student Paper Award |
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| Lunch (Rivanna D) | Lunch: Noon to 1:00 PM | Lunch: 12:30 to 1:30 PM | Lunch: Noon to 1:00 PM |
| Technical Sessions | Technical Sessions: 1 to 5 PM | Technical Sessions: 1:30 to 6 PM | Technical Sessions: 1 to 5 PM |
Technical Agenda
Most current technical program updates will be announced in person at the conference and in the conference mobile app (registered attendees only). |
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| Evening Programs (Rivanna EFG) | Exhibitor Reception: 6:00 to 7:30 PM | Evening Social Event: 6:00 to 9:00 PM | |
| Exhibitor Keynote: Buz Carpenter (USAF, Col., Retired), “Kelly’s Greatest Challenge: The SR-71” | |||
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Plenary Panel I: Global Harmonization
Chairs: Steve Bradford (FAA) & Michael Standar (SJU)
Rivanna ABC
This plenary explains the status of the GANP evolution via a keynote address from Steve Creamer, Director ANB, ICAO. The co-chairs will expand on the content of the NextGen – SESAR harmonization towards interoperability and how it links with the GANP and other ATM modernization programs. Our speaker from Japan will discuss the status of the CARATS program to further link the discussions towards key priorities where interoperability and harmonization will be crucial. The plenary will further the presentation into the specific plans and needs in Europe and the U.S. and the specific priorities, challenges and opportunities. Finally, the session will aim to trigger a good discussion between the panelists and the audience for a fair and honest debate about ongoing topics of activities, services and enablers in the aviation and ATM area.
| Start | End | Topic | Speaker |
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| 7:00 AM | 8:00 AM | Registration & Breakfast (Rivanna D) | |
| 8:00 AM | 8:15 AM | Conference Welcome and Announcements | Aloke Roy, Conference General Chair (Honeywell) |
| 8:15 AM | 8:45 AM | Conference Keynote | Jim Eck, Assistant Administrator for NextGen, Federal Aviation Administration |
| 8:45 AM | 9:00 AM | “ICNS Champion Award” presented to Diana Liang, FAA | Aloke Roy, Conference General Chair (Honeywell) |
| 9:00 AM | 9:05 AM | Plenary Welcome | Steve Bradford (FAA) & Michael Standar (SJU) |
| 9:05 AM | 9:25 AM | Plenary Keynote | Steve Creamer, Director ANB, ICAO |
| 9:25 AM | 9:40 AM | Plenary Introductions | Steve Bradford (FAA) & Michael Standar (SJU) |
| 9:40 AM | 10:00 AM | The European ATM Master Plan and SESAR – State of Play | Paul Bosman (EUROCONTROL) |
| 10:00 AM | 10:20 AM | CARATS Japan – State of Play | Tokuaki Nakajima (ENRI) |
| 10:20 AM | 10:40 AM | Break (Rivanna Prefunction Area) | |
| 10:40 AM | 11:00 AM | The Aircraft and Avionics Industry Perspective | Patrick Schuster (Airbus) |
| 11:00 AM | 11:20 AM | The Aircraft Industry Perspective | Chip Meserole, Ph.D., (Boeing) |
| 11:20 AM | 11:40 AM | The Evolution of Connected Aircraft | Diane McClatchy (Rockwell Collins) |
| 11:40 AM | 12:00 PM | Question and Answer, Conclusion | |
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Lunch (Rivanna D) | |
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Plenary Panel II: Satellites for CNS
Chairs: Rainer J. Koll (Stellar Solutions) & Nikos Fistas (EUROCONTROL)
Rivanna ABC
Learn about the latest developments in using satellites to support communication, navigation and surveillance functions in general as well as UAS/RPAS. A distinguished panel will discuss the trends, issues and address the future evolution as well as answer your questions on these aspects.
| Start | End | Topic | Speaker |
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| 7:00 AM | 8:00 AM | Registration & Breakfast (Rivanna D) | |
| 8:00 AM | 8:05 AM | Welcome and Introductions | Aloke Roy, Conference General Chair (Honeywell) |
| 8:05 AM | 8:30 AM | Plenary Welcome and Introduction | Rainer J. Koll (Stellar Solutions) & Nikos Fistas (EUROCONTROL) |
| 8:30 AM | 8:45 AM | Plenary Panel | Brian Pemberton (Iridium) |
| 8:45 AM | 9:00 AM | Lisa Bee (Inmarsat) | |
| 9:00 AM | 9:15 AM | Michael Garcia (Aireon) | |
| 9:15 AM | 9:30 AM | Vince Massimini (MITRE) | |
| 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM | Panel Discussion, Q&A, Conclusion | |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Break (Rivanna Prefunction Area) | |
| 10:30 AM | 12:20 PM | Interactive Workshop: “Drones, the Sky’s the Limit” | Kevin Hightower (AirMap), Brett Velicovich (Expert Drones), Basil Yap (North Carolina Department of Transportation), Jeff Breunig (Mitre, representing FAA UAS Pathfinder Program) |
| 12:20 PM | 12:30 PM | Presentation of Best Student Paper Award | Lance Sherry (GMU) |
| 12:30 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch (Rivanna D) | |
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Plenary Panel III: CNS for UAS Integration
Chairs: Stephen Van Trees (FAA) & Paul Bosman (EUROCONTROL)
Rivanna ABC
UAS, drones, RPAS — whatever you want to call them — are starting to have an increasing impact on ATM. This plenary will look into current and forecasted developments, integration challenges and solutions, as well as ongoing and starting certification and standardization activities.
| Start | End | Topic | Speaker |
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| 7:00 AM | 8:00 AM | Registration & Breakfast (Rivanna D) | |
| 8:00 AM | 8:05 AM | Conference Welcome and Announcements | Aloke Roy, Conference General Chair, ICNS 2017 |
| 8:05 AM | 8:10 AM | “DATC Distinguished Institution Award” presented to Paul Bosman, EUROCONTROL | Douglas Abernathy (DATC) |
| 8:10 AM | 8:35 AM | Introduction and SC-228 Command and Control | Stephen Van Trees (FAA) |
| 8:35 AM | 9:00 AM | Introduction and European RPAS Initiatives | Paul Bosman (EUROCONTROL) |
| UAS/RPAS CNS Certification Aspects | |||
| 9:00 AM | 9:25 AM | RTCA SC-228 and Detect and Avoid | Erik Theunissen (Netherlands Defence Academy, NLDA) |
| 9:25 AM | 9:50 AM | UAS Traffic Management: Safely Enabling UAS Operations in Low-Altitude Airspace | Jaewoo Jung (NASA) |
| 9:50 AM | 10:15 AM | EUROCAE: UAS Standardization and Coordination | Alex Engel (EUROCAE) |
| 10:15 AM | 10:45 AM | Break (Rivanna Prefunction Area) | |
| UAS/RPAS Integration in ATM and the Role of CNS | |||
| 10:45 AM | 11:05 AM | Ground-Based Sense and Avoid: A key Piece of the UTM Puzzle | David Rhodes (MCRI) |
| 11:05 AM | 11:30 AM | NAS Infrastructure for UAS | Ravi Jain (FAA) |
| 11:30 AM | 11:50 AM | RPAS ATM CONOPS | Pascal Barret (EUROCONTROL) |
| 11:50 AM | 12:00 PM | Question and Answer | |
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Lunch (Rivanna D) | |
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| Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | ||||
| Rivanna A | ||||
| Track 1: Air Traffic Management (ATM) | ||||
| Track Chair: Bernd Korn, German Aerospace Center (DLR) | ||||
| Session A: Air Traffic Complexity & Flow Management | ||||
| Chair: Werner Langhans, Austro Control | ||||
| 1:00 PM | 1A1 | Convex Sectorization – A Novel Integer Programming Approach | Christiane Schmidt | Linköping University |
| 1:30 PM | 1A2 | Airspace Sectorization Optimization Using Fast-Time Simulation of Air Traffic Controller’s Workload | Premysl Volf | Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering |
| 2:00 PM | 1A3 | A Semi-Supervised Learning Method for Air Traffic Complexity Evaluation | Xi Zhu | Beihang University |
| Session B: Advanced Operations | ||||
| Chairs: Rainer Koelle, Eurocontrol and Akshay Belle, Booz Allen Hamilton | ||||
| 3:30 PM | 1B1 | The Research of Airborne ADS-B-Based Procedures of Longitudinal Separation on Arrival Phase Using Fast-Time Simulation | Olesya Khakhaleva | State Research Institute of Aviation Systems (GosNIIAS) |
| 4:00 PM | 1B2 | Advanced Trajectory Modeling: Exploring Technologies for Improved Air Traffic Management | Biruk Abraham | Federal Aviation Administration |
| Wednesday, April 19, 2016 | ||||
| Rivanna A | ||||
| Session C: Simulation & Performance Assessment I | ||||
| Chair: Thomas Gräupl, German Aerospace Center (DLR) | ||||
| 1:30 PM | 1C1 | Comparison of ATFM Practices and Performance in the U.S. and Europe | Kamala Shetty | Federal Aviation Administration |
| 2:00 PM | 1C2 | Assessing Vertical Flight Profiles in the US and Europe | Marc Meekma | FAA |
| 2:30 PM | 1C3 | Economic Impact of Level-Altitude Flight Segments | Benjamin Levy | MCR, LLC |
| Session D: Simulation & Performance Assessment II | ||||
| Chair: Tom Becker, MITRE | ||||
| 4:00 PM | 1D1 | Taxi-Delays: The Use of Distance as a Reference for the Unimpeded Taxi-Time | Nathalie Kuhn | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
| 4:30 PM | 1D2 | Experimental Prototype for Remote Tower System Design | Jaime Lopez-Araquistain | Universidad Politecnica de Madrid |
| 5:00 PM | 1D3 | Simulation of Time-on-Procedure (ToP) for Evaluating Airline Procedures | Houda Kerkoub Kourdali | Center for Air Transportation Systems Research – George Mason University |
| 5:30 PM | 1D4 | Validating the FACTS2 Air Traffic Simulation Framework | Thomas Gräupl | German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Thursday, April 20, 2017 | ||||
| Rivanna A | ||||
| Session E: Communication & Information Management | ||||
| Chair: Gunnar Schwoch, German Aerospace Center (DLR) | ||||
| 1:00 PM | 1E1 | Integration of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Voice Communications into the FAA National Airspace (NAS) | Joy Wang | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| 1:30 PM | 1E2 | How Much Money Could Passengers Earn if the U.S. had European Airline Consumer Protection Laws? | Lance Sherry | Center for Air Transportation Systems Research at George Mason University |
| 2:00 PM | 1E3 | Information Management and Air Traffic Management Concepts of Operation | Ian Wilson | The Boeing Company |
| Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | ||||
| Rivanna EF | ||||
| Track 2: Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS) Track Chair: Michael Schnell, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
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| Session A: Data Link Communications | ||||
| Chair: Rafael Apaza, NASA Glenn Research Center | ||||
| 1:00 PM | 2A1 | Impact Assessment of LDACS on JTIDS | Miguel A. Bellido-Manganell | German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| 1:30 PM | 2A2 | AeroMACS Secure Broadband Connectivity for Aviation D-Taxi via AeroMACS | Declan Byrne | AeroMACS – WiMAX Forum |
| 2:00 PM | 2A3 | AeroMACS Analyses and Simulations for Spectrum Planning | Izabela Gheorghisor | MITRE |
| 2:30 PM | 2A4 | AeroMACS Field Trial at Haneda Airport | Toshiyuki Inagaki | AVICOM JAPAN CO.,LTD. |
| Session B: Navigation Systems | ||||
| Chair: Gregory Woo, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center | ||||
| 3:30 PM | 2B1 | Detection Probability Estimation Model for Wide Area Multilateration | Junichi Naganawa | ENRI |
| 4:00 PM | 2B2 | A Fast Alignment Method for SINS with Large Misalignment Angles Based on ADRC | Dongrui Yang | School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University |
| 4:30 PM | 2B3 | An Algorithm About Gyro Constant Drift Compensation for SVRS Based on Kalman Filter | Jinwu Tong | School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University |
| Wednesday, April 19, 2017 | ||||
| Rivanna EF | ||||
| Session C: Networking and SWIM | ||||
| Chair: Mark Strout, Department of Transportation | ||||
| 1:30 PM | 2C1 | Internet Protocol Suite for Safety Services: Progress Toward a Validated Standard | Ryan Hale | Honeywell |
| 2:00 PM | 2C2 | A Software Defined Networking Framework for Future Airborne Connectivity | George Elmasry | Rockwell Collins |
| 2:30 PM | 2C3 | Air/Ground System Wide Information Management: Concept Demonstration and Lessons Learned | Biruk Abraham | Federal Aviation Administration |
| 3:00 PM | 2C4 | Airport Information Sharing Concept Architecture | Rafael Apaza | NASA Glenn Research Center |
| Session D: Software Defined Radio (SDR) & Spectrum | ||||
| Chair: Andrew Weinart, MIT Lincoln Lab | ||||
| 4:00 PM | 2D1 | Multi-Mode Reconfigurable Software Defined Radio Architecture for Avionic Radios | Abdessamad Amrhar | LASSENA Laboratory |
| 4:30 PM | 2D2 | Design and Implementation of a Wideband Radio Using SDR for Avionic Applications | Eric Zhang | École de Technologie Supérieure |
| 5:00 PM | 2D3 | CFO Tracking For Direct RF Sampling Architecture Applied to VHF Avionic Radios | Anh-Quang Nguyen | LASSENA Lab |
| Thursday, April 20, 2017 | ||||
| Rivanna EF | ||||
| Session E: CNS for UAS | ||||
| Chair: Nick Demidovich, Federal Aviation Administration | ||||
| 1:00 PM | 2E1 | Enabling Centralized UTM Services Through Cellular Network for VLL UAVs | Mehmet Hasanzade | Istanbul Technical University |
| 1:30 PM | 2E2 | Multi-Sensor Fusion for UAS Ground-Based Detect and Avoid Capability | Raymond Young | Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance |
| 2:00 PM | 2E3 | Considerations for an Integrated UAS CNS Architecture | Raj Jain | Washington University |
| 2:30 PM | 2E4 | Requirements for an Integrated UAS CNS Architecture | Fred Templin | The Boeing Company |
| Tuesday, April 19, 2016 | ||||
| Rivanna G | ||||
| Track 3: Safe & Secure Air Transportation Systems | ||||
| Chair: Khanh Pham, United States Force | ||||
| Session A: New Technologies and Architectures in Access and Security | ||||
| Chairs: Rainer Koelle, Eurocontrol and Radu Babiceanu, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University | ||||
| 1:00 PM | 3A1 | A Flexible Architecture for Secure “ACARS over IP” Supporting Both Legacy and New ACARS Features | Terry Davis | AtF Consulting |
| 1:30 PM | 3A2 | An XML Datalink Message Exchange Model (DMXM) for Command and Control Data Sharing | Antonio Correas | Skymantics |
| 2:00 PM | 3A3 | Recent Implementations and Challenges of an IP Network for Air Traffic Management in Colombia | Oscar Pico | National University of Colombia |
| Session B: Advanced Service Support for UAS | ||||
| Chairs: Radu Babiceanu, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and Sherry Yang, Boeing | ||||
| 3:30 PM | 3B1 | Inegrating UAS into the Managed Airspace through the Extension of Rockwell Collins’ ARINC Cloud Services | George Elmasry | Rockwell Collins |
| 4:00 PM | 3B2 | Sharing the Skies (Safely): Near Term Perspective on sUAS Integration in the NAS | Ally Ferguson | PrecisionHawk |
| 4:30 PM | 3B3 | Designing a Robust Detect and Avoid Alerting Function | Eric Theunissen | Netherlands Defence Academy |
| 5:00 PM | 3B4 | Developing a Risk Based sUAS Airworthiness Approval Approach | Jeff Breunig | MITRE Corporation |
| Wednesday, April 19, 2017 | ||||
| Rivanna G | ||||
| Session C: Security Advances in Aeronautical Applications | ||||
| Chairs: Sherry Yang, Boeing and Paul Kostek, Air Direct Solutions LLC | ||||
| 1:30 PM | 3C1 | A Secure and Trusted Protocol for UAV Enhancing Safety of On-Ground Airplanes | Serge Chaumette | Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| 2:00 PM | 3C2 | An Efficient Protocol for UAS Security | Serge Chaumette | Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| 2:30 PM | 3C3 | Cyber-Security Challenges for Wireless Networked Aircraft | Ramya Kanlapuli Rajasekaran | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Session D: Security for Aeronautical Information Systems | ||||
| Chairs: Paul Kostek, Air Direct Solutions LLC and Rainer Koelle, Eurocontrol | ||||
| 4:00 PM | 3D1 | Towards Developing a Security Situation Management Information Exchange Model | Rainer Koelle | Lancaster University |
| 4:30 PM | 3D2 | Retrospective Cyber Security for Global System Wide Information Management | Ian Wilson | The Boeing Company |
| 5:00 PM | 3D3 | Innovation and Certification in Aviation Software | Jaiden Kennedy | Royal Australian Air Force |
| Thursday, April 20, 2017 | ||||
| Rivanna G | ||||
| Session E: Signal Processing and Data Fusion in Emerging Aeronautical Systems | ||||
| Chairs: Dongsong Zeng and Amal Srivastava, MITRE | ||||
| 1:00 PM | 3E1 | SCMA Codebook Design Base on Circular-QAM | Triratana Metkarunchit | Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology |
| 1:30 PM | 3E2 | Batch Loss Regularization in Deep Learning Method for Aerial Scene Classification | Yuanjun Huang | School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University |
| 2:00 PM | 3E3 | An Effective Distance Measuring Equipment Pulsed Interference Mitigation Approach for L-DACS1 System | Dongxia Li | Tianjin Key Lab of Advanced Signal Processing Civil Aviation University of China |
| Tuesday, April 19, 2016 | ||||
| Luray I | ||||
| Track 4: Satellite-Based Navigation & APNT | ||||
| Chair: Ryan Wu, Saab Defense and Security, USA, LLC | ||||
| Session A: Space-Dependent CNS and APNT | ||||
| Chair: Joe Post, Federal Aviation Administration | ||||
| 1:00 PM | 4A1 | Aireon’s Initial On-Orbit Performance Analysis of Space-Based ADS-B | Michael Garcia | Aireon |
| 1:30 PM | 4A2 | Aireon’s Cloud-Based ADS-B Service Display | Andy Hoag | Aireon |
| 2:00 PM | 4A3 | Study of UAS Satellite Earth Station Emission Limits for Terrestrial System Interference Protection in Ku Band | Robert Kerczewski | NASA Glenn Research Center |
| 2:30 PM | 4A4 | Communications for UAS Integration in the NAS Phase 2 – Satellite Communications and Terrestrial Extension | James Griner | NASA Glenn Research Center |
| Session B: Satellite Navigation and Alternative Positioning Navigation and Timing | ||||
| (SAT-NAV & APNT) | ||||
| Chair: Mitch Narins, Strategic Synergies LLC | ||||
| 3:30 PM | 4B1 | Benefit Analysis of a GA-Based DME/N Pulse on PBN | Euiho Kim | Hongik University |
| 4:00 PM | 4B2 | Detection of DME Ranging Faults with INS Coupling | Omar Garcia Crespillo | German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| 4:30 PM | 4B3 | A Holistic Approach to the Provision of Resilient Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance for the 21st Century National Airspace System through Improved L-Band Utilization | Mitch Narins | Strategic Synergies LLC |
| Wednesday, April 19, 2017 | ||||
| Luray I | ||||
| Session C: Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) Applications | ||||
| Chair: Omar García Crespillo, German Aerospace Center (DLR) | ||||
| 1:30 PM | 4C1 | A Data Driven Approach for SLR Service Volume Design and Implementation | Tony Boci | Harris Inc. |
| 2:00 PM | 4C2 | Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast for Surveillance of Unmanned Aircraft System | Taehwan Cho | Republic of Korea Air Force Academy (Visiting Scholar at Space Policy Institute) |
| 2:30 PM | 4C3 | Flight Test of ADS-B Technology for Winged Reusable Launch Vehicle Re-entry | Nickolas Demidovich | FAA – Office of Commercial Space Transporation |
| 3:00 PM | 4C4 | Seamless Integration of UAV Surveillance Data in the NAS | Dave Whitman | Sunhillo Corporation |
| Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | ||||
| Luray II | ||||
| Track 5: Special Topic/Other | ||||
| Chair: Paul Prisaznuk, AIRINC | ||||
| Session A: Special Topics on Enhanced Information Utilization | ||||
| Chair: Denise Ponchak, NASA Glenn Research Center | ||||
| 1:00 PM | 5A1 | Evaluating the Design and Suitability of the Wildlife Surveillance Concept | Mark Hale | CSSI, Inc. |
| 1:30 PM | 5A2 | Small UAS and the Awakening to Weather Impacts | Matthias Steiner | National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) |
| 2:00 PM | 5A3 | Method for Calculating Net Radiative Forcing from Contrails from Airline Operations | Denis Avila | Center for Air Transportation Systems Research (CATSR) George Mason University |
| 2:30 PM | 5A4 | Ontology-Based Data Description and Discovery in a SWIM Environment | Ilko Kovacic | Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| Session B: UAS Deployment | ||||
| Chair: Anuja Verma, MITRE | ||||
| 3:30 PM | 5B1 | UAS and Wireless Spectrum: Modeling Data Link Demand | Corey Snipes | Mosaic ATM |
| 4:00 PM | 5B2 | RPAS Automatic Take-Off and Landing Operations using Computer Vision | Björn Blom | Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| 4:30 PM | 5B3 | Learning the State Space Based on Flying Pattern for Bird Detection | Shuman Tian | School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University |
| 5:00 PM | 5B4 | Bi-Heterogeneous Convolutional Neural Network for UAV-Based Dynamic Scene Classification | Jiewan Zheng | Beihang University |
| Wednesday, April 20, 2016 | ||||
| Luray II | ||||
| Session C: UAS Challenges and Possibilities | ||||
| Chair: Yosef Gabriel, Castle Research | ||||
| 1:30 PM | 5C1 | The Bridge to Space: CNS Technology for High Altitude Operations | Ruth Stilwell | Aerospace Policy Solutions, LLC |
| 2:00 PM | 5C2 | Optimisation Problems in Air-to-Air Communication Using Aircrafts as Relays | Swagato Barman Roy | Nanyang Technological University |
| 2:30 PM | 5C3 | Investigation of Tropospheric Attenuations for UAS Beyond-Line-of-Sight Communications | David Matolak | University of South Carolina |
| 3:00 PM | 5C4 | Performance Analysis of Shenzhen Airlines 4D/15 Tracking Demonstration | Zhe Zhang | Civil Aviation University of China |
| Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | ||||
| Rivanna BC | ||||
| Track 6: UAS Use and Integration | ||||
| Chair: Dieter Eier, Frequentis | ||||
| Session A: UAS Safety – Modelling, Planning, Test Results | ||||
| Chair: Ray Young, NUAIR Alliance | ||||
| 1:00 PM | 6A1 | Airspace Risk Assessment in Logistic Path Planning for UAV | Khara Karisia Dimpudus | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University |
| 1:30 PM | 6A2 | UAS Flight Test for Safety and for Efficiency | Seamus McGovern | U.S. DOT National Transportation Systems Center |
| 2:00 PM | 6A3 | Formal Verification of Trustworthiness Requirements for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems | Radu Babiceanu | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
| Session B: UAS CNS – Communication, Navigation, Surveillance I | ||||
| Chair: Karl Rein-Weston, Boeing | ||||
| 3:30 PM | 6B1 | Flight Test Analysis of a Tracking System for Unmanned Aircraft Systems | Vibhor Bageshwar | Honeywell International |
| 4:00 PM | 6B2 | Communication Links for Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Very Low Level Airspace | Lukas Marcel Schalk | German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Wednesday, April 19, 2017 | ||||
| Rivanna BC | ||||
| Session C: UAS CNS – Communication, Navigation, Surveillance II | ||||
| Chairs: Chris Wargo, MosaicATM | ||||
| 1:30 PM | 6C1 | Decentralized Self-Propagating Ground Delay for UTM: Capitalizing on Domino Effect | Leonid Sedov | Linkoping Uiversity |
| 2:00 PM | 6C2 | Proposal for RPAS Integration into Non Segregated Airspaces | John Romero | Aeronautical Sciences Studies Center |
| 2:30 PM | 6C3 | Challenges and Opportunities to Integrate UAS in the National Airspace System | Leila Ribeiro | The MITRE Corporation |
| 3:00 PM | 6C4 | Integrating RPAS – Published Approach Procedures vs. Local Arrangements | Dagi Geister | German Aerospace Center |
| Session D: UAS – Detect, Sense & Avoid | ||||
| Chair: Antonio Correas, Skymantics | ||||
| 4:00 PM | 6D1 | Enabling Unrestricted UAS Airspace Access: Performance Based Navigation | Jenny Perrottet | General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. |
| 4:30 PM | 6D2 | Simulation of UAS Integration into Shared Airspace for Validation of Impact on ATM Systems | Milan Rollo | Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering |
| 5:00 PM | 6D3 | Design of an Enhanced Defect Identification System for Commercial Building Construction | June Juyeon Park | George Mason University |
| Thursday, April 20, 2017 | ||||
| Rivanna BC | ||||
| Session E: UAS – Regulatory, Certification & Commercial Aspects | ||||
| Chair: Leila Ribeiro, MITRE | ||||
| 1:00 PM | 6E1 | Cooperative Surveillance for UAVs and RPAS | Olivier Rea | Thales Air Systems SAS |
| 1:30 PM | 6E2 | Minimum Risk Low Altitude Airspace Integration for Larger Cargo UAS | Bernd Korn | DLR (German Aerospace Center) |
| 2:00 PM | 6E3 | Complex UAS Operations Using Algorithms Based On The LOST Protocol | Dieter Eier | Frequentis USA, Inc. |
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