[UAS] Roundtable and Seminar today at 10am/4pm with Dr. Ella Atkins Thurs March 24

[David Shaner LeBauer]

Reminder / this is the discussion and seminar that Dr Rastgoftar told us
about yesterday (apologies for cross posting)

Hi all,
>

> Dr. Ella  <https://aero.engin.umich.edu/people/atkins-ella/>Atkins
> will give a seminar in the AME Department on March 24 and her talk is
> titled "Environment Mapping and Flight Planning for Advanced Air Mobility".
> She is very well-known in UAS autonomy and traffic management, and is
> interested in meeting with members of this group. Her host is Dr. Hossein
> Rastgoftar from the department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering.
>
>
> I will host a roundtable discussion for our group with Dr. Atkins this
> Thursday in AME conference room N715 from 10-11 AM. If anyone is interested
> in joining either in person or remotely, please let me know.
>
>
> Dr. Atkins’ talk will be at 4PM in AME S202.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> David
>
>
> More details:
>
>
> Dr. Atkins' CV is here
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dq59A7TNSCPxpKNbuF3AMuI0XxV3FUwH/view>.
>
>
> Bio: Dr. Ella Atkins is a Professor in the University of Michigan’s
> Aerospace Engineering Department where she directs the Autonomous Aerospace
> Systems (A2SYS) Lab and is Associate Director of the Robotics Institute.
> Dr. Atkins holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from
> MIT and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the
> University of Michigan. She is an AIAA Fellow, private pilot, and Part 107
> UAS pilot. She served on the National Academy’s Aeronautics and Space
> Engineering Board and the Institute for Defense Analysis Defense Science
> Studies Group. She has served on several National Academy study committees
> and co-authored study reports including Advancing Aerial Mobility A
> National Blueprint (2020) and Autonomy Research for Civil Aviation Toward a
> New Era of Flight (2014). Dr. Atkins has built a research program in
> decision-making and control to assure safe contingency management in manned
> and unmanned Aerospace applications. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of
> AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (JAIS) and a member of the
> 2020-2021 AIAA Aviation Conference Executive Steering Committee.
>
>
> Title:  Environment Mapping and Urgent Landing Planning for Low-Altitude
> UAS Operations
>
>
> Abstract: Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) are expected to
> proliferate in low-altitude airspace over the coming decade requiring
> flight near buildings and over people. Robust urgent landing capabilities
> including landing site selection are required. However, conventional
> fixed-wing emergency landing sites such as open fields and empty roadways
> are rare in and around cities. Our work uniquely considers a city's many
> unoccupied flat rooftops as possible nearby landing sites. We propose novel
> methods to identify flat rooftop buildings, isolate their flat surfaces,
> and find touchdown points that maximize distance to obstacles. We model
> flat rooftop surfaces as polygons that capture their boundaries and
> obstructions. We process satellite images, airborne LiDAR point clouds, and
> map building outlines to generate rooftop maps with a multi-stage machine
> learning pipeline. We propose a computational geometry method (Polylidar3D)
> that reliably extracts flat rooftop surfaces from archived data sources. We
> model risk as an innovative combination of landing site and path risk
> metrics and conduct a multi-objective Pareto front analysis for sUAS urgent
> landing in cities. A high-fidelity simulated city is constructed in the
> Unreal game engine with a statistically-accurate representation of rooftop
> obstacles. A summary of complementary research in contingency planning and
> airspace geofencing will conclude the presentation.
>
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> David
>
> --
>
> David LeBauer
> Director of Data Sciences
> CALS Comm and Technologies
> THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
>
> BSRL, 207
> 1230 N Cherry Ave | Tucson, AZ 85721
> Office: 520-621-4381 | Cell: 760-468-8621
> dlebauer at arizona.edu
>
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