IUTAM Symposium on Optimal Guidance and Control for Autonomous Systems
University of Hawaiʻi at Manoā
East West Center
March 15 – 17, 2023
Program agenda can be downloaded here.
Day 1: Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Location: Pacific Room, East West Center
8:30 AM Registration & Sign In
MORNING SESSION 1: Welcome! [9:00 – 10:05 AM]
9:00 – 9:10 AM Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Dilmurat Azimov, Associate Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoā
Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUTAM Symposium Chair
9:10 – 9:30 AM Opening Remarks
Dr. Vassilis Syrmos, Professor, the Vice President for Research and Innovation of the
University of Hawai’i System
9:30 – 10:05 AM Featured Lecture: Nā Mea ʻIke ʻIa Cultural Presentation
Kumu Brad Lum
10:10 – 10:25 AM Coffee Break
MORNING SESSION 2: Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) [10:30 AM – 12:15 PM]
10:30 – 11:05 AM Mathematical Modeling for Precision Navigation by Tracking Ground Targets
Robert H. Bishop
11:05 – 11:40 AM Force Estimation and Control Enhanced by a Force-Derivative Sensor
Yu-Sheng Lu, Liang-Hao Chen
11:40 AM – 12:15 PM Iterative Control Framework with Application to Space Docking
Xun Liu, Hashem Ashrafiuon, Sergey G. Nersesov
12:15 – 1:15 PM Lunch
Location: Makana Room, East West Center
AFTERNOON SESSION 1: GNC & Sensor Technologies [1:15 – 2:25 PM]
1:15 – 1:50 PM Detection, Classification and Tracking Challenges in Acoustics
John S. Allen III
1:50 – 2:25 PM ESA Technology Developments in Vision-based Navigation
Olivier Dubois-Matra, Massimo Casasco, Manuel Sanchez Gestido, Irene Huertas
2:30 – 2:45 PM Coffee Break
AFTERNOON SESSION 2: GNC & Robotic Technologies [2:50 – 4:15 PM]
2:50 – 3:15 PM Performance Evaluation of Real World Clicker Fine-tuning Operation Method Based on Manipulability of a Robot Arm
Shin-ichiro Sakamoto, Keigo Noguchi, Satoshi Iwaki
3:15 – 3:40 PM Mobile Robot Guidance Method Using Laser Spots Irradiated on the Floor from Real World Clicker and its Application for Object Grasping System
Keigo Noguchi, Shin-ichiro Sakamoto, Satoshi Iwaki
3:40 – 4:15 PM Extending Explicit Guidance Methods to Higher Dimensions, Additional Conditions, and Higher Order Integration
Evan Kawamura, Dilmurat Azimov
5:00 – 6:30 PM Tea Gathering – Informal Social Networking Event
Location: Makana Room, East-West Center
Day 2: Thursday, March 16, 2023
Location: Pacific Room, East West Center
8:30 AM Registration & Sign In
MORNING SESSION 1: Robotic Technologies [9:00 – 10:45 AM]
9:00 – 9:35 AM Development of a Simulator for Operator Proficiency Training for Seafloor Exploration by Remotely Operated Vehicle
Ryusei Kamewari, Yusuke Fujishima, Kuniaki Kawabata, Kenta Suzuki, Norimitsu Sakagami, Fumiaki Takemura, Satoru Takahashi
9:35 – 10:10 AM Identifying Consumer Drones Via Encrypted Traffic
David Liang, Yingfei Dong
10:10 – 10:45 AM Optimization of the Four Coil Configuration for Single Magnet Levitation from Below
Peter Berkelman, Steven Kang
10:50 – 11:05 AM Coffee Break
MORNING SESSION 2: Stochastic Systems & Game Theory [11:10 AM – 12:20 PM]
11:10 – 11:45 AM Assigning Probability Distributions to the State of Stochastic Systems
Ali Pakniyat
11:45 AM – 12:20 PM Applications of the II-Strategy when Players Move with Acceleration
Bahrom T. Samatov, Ulmasjon B. Soyibboev
12:20 – 1:20 PM Lunch
Location: Makana Room, East West Center
AFTERNOON SESSION 1: Game Theory & Motion Operations [1:20 – 2:30 PM]
1:20 – 1:55 PM Initial Development of Cooperative Control and Localization of Multiple Spacecraft using a Multi-Agent Mission Operations System
Trevor Sorensen, Eric Pilger, Miguel Nunes, James Lewis, Scott Ginoza, Zhuoyuan Song, Chris Battista, Lillian Shibata
1:55 – 2:30 PM Optimal Number of Pursuers in the Game on the 1-Skeleton of 4D Cube
Gafurjan Ibragimov, Zahriddin Muminov
2:35 – 2:50 PM Coffee Break
AFTERNOON SESSION 2: Optimal Control & Underwater Vehicles [2:55 – 4:40 PM]
2:55 – 3:30 PM Development of An Operation Support Device for Portable Underwater Vehicles
Yu Kimura, Norimitsu Sakagami, Takahiro Wada, Koichi Koganezawa
3:30 – 4:05 PM Hamiltonian Distributed Optimal Control of Coupled Finite and Infinite-Dimensional Lagrangian Systems
Nhan Nguyen
4.05-4.40 PM Optimal control of thermal processes in a nonlinear inverse problem with redefinition function at the end-point of the interval
Tursun K. Yuldashev
5:00 – 7:30 PM Reception: Banquet Dinner Nā Mea ʻIke ʻIa Cultural Performance with Kumu Brad Lum
Location: East-West Center, Makana Room
Day 3: Friday, March 17, 2023
Location: Pacific Room, East West Center
8:30 AM Registration & Sign In
MORNING SESSION 1: Modeling & Data Analytics [9:00 – 10:25 AM]
9:00 – 9:30 AM Koopman Operator Based Modeling and Control of Quadrotor
Simone Martini, Kimon P. Valavanis, Alessandro Rizzo
9:30 – 9:55 AM On the Vertical and Horizontal Integration of Robotics within Engineering and Computing Education
Colleen Berg, Missy Cummings, Robert Handler, Monson Hayes, Nathan Kathir, Leigh McCue, Cameron Nowzari, David Rosenblum, Quentin Sanders, Daigo Shishika, John Shortle
9:55 – 10:20 AM Vector Thrust Control of an Upper-Stage Rocket with Partially Filled Fuel Tanks via Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Model
Aaron Inks, Chokri Sendi
10:20 – 10:45 AM Microwave thermal rocket engine-based orbital launch system implementation
Abdulazal Toshkhujaev, Akhror Agzamov, Makhsud Yusupov
10:45 – 11:00 AM Coffee Break
MORNING SESSION 2: Nonlinear Control Systems & Machine Learning [11:00 AM – 1:10 PM]
11:00 – 11:25 AM Data-driven Reinforcement Learning for Mission Engineering and Combat Simulation
Henslee, H. Dozier, I. Shukla, B. Hansen, A. Salhi, T. Arnold, J. Jabour, G. Turner, J. White, I. Dettwiller
11:25 AM – 11:50 PM Optimal control problems for the first order autonomous systems
Mansur P. Eshov, Najmiddin N. Qodirov, Tursun K. Yuldashev
11:50 – 12:15 PM Application of Cybenko’s Theorem and Algebraic Geometry in Solving Modified E-Guidance Equations
Matthew Leonard, Dilmurat Azimov
12:20 – 12:35 PM Coffee Break
AFTERNOON SESSION 1: Nonlinear Control Systems & Machine Learning [12:35 PM – 1:25 PM]
12:35 – 1:00 PM A Novel Dynamic & Aerodynamic Intelligent Morphing System (DA-IMS) for the Stability of an Autonomous Utility Truck
Parth Y. Patel, Vladimir V. Vantsevich, Roy P. Koomulli
1:00 – 1:25 PM Analysis of a model for improving the efficiency of routing control in data transmission networks based on fuzzy logic.
Khojiakbar Urinov.
1:25 – 1:30 PM Closing remarks
Dr. Dilmurat Azimov, Associate Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoā
Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUTAM Symposium Chair