Schedule Overview | Wed July 29th 2026 | Thu July 30th 2026 |
NOTE: Talk times will be posted July 20th - check back please.
Schedule - MOOS-DAWG 2026 - Wednesday July 29th, 2026
| WEDNESDAY: | July 29th 2026 | |
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| Time | ROOM 32-155 (Main Meeting Room) | |
| 0730-0800 | Registration, Coffee | |
| 0800-0810 | Welcome Remarks: John Leonard, Mike Benjamin | |
| 0810-0830 | Deployments of MOOS-IvP for Autonomous USV Fleets in the Taiwan Strait, Shsueh-Cheng 'Nick' Wang, Yi-Ho 'Ian' Cheng, Tsiau-Hua Loo, Chang-Ching Wu, JetSea AI | |
| 0830-0845 | The Tsunami Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), Matthew Livelsberger, Textron Unmanned Systems | |
| 0845-0900 | Open Ocean Software: An Open-Source Ecosystem for Marine Robotics, Eric Gallimore, Toby Schneider, Michael Benjamin, Hanumant Singh, Isaac Vandor, Dennis Giaya, WHOI, GobySoft, MIT, Northeastern. | |
| 0900-0915 | Open Source DevSecOps for Marine Robots, Toby Schneider, Open Ocean Software, GobySoft, LLC. | |
| 0915-0930 | Two Years With the MIT Spurdog UUV, Raymond Turrisi, Tyler Paine, Michael Benjamin, MIT Mechanical Engineering, MIT Marine Autonomy Lab. | |
| 0930-0945 | Cooperative Range-Aided Localization Strategies for Compact, Low-Cost AUV Teams, E. Gajski, R. Turrisi, J. Hong, J. Morrison, A. Papalia, E. Gallimore, M. Benjamin, J. Leonard. MIT MechE, WHOI, University of Michigan. | |
| 0945-1000 | Break --- Break --- Break --- Break | |
| 1000-1015 | SeaBeaver AUV: What’s New and What’s Next, Supun Randeni, Michael Sacarny, Michael Benjamin, MIT Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Sea Grant AUV Lab. | |
| 1015-1030 | StackUxV: A generic software framework for coordinating fleets of UxVs, Supun Randeni, Michael Sacarny, Michael Benjamin and Henrik Schmidt, MIT Mechanical Engineering. | |
| 1030-1045 | From Hulls to Hovering: MOOS-IvP on Multirotor UAS, Jacob Crossman, Michael Novitzky, United States Military Academy (USMA). PDF of Talk | |
| 1045-1100 | Deploying a Fixed-Wing UAV Swarm for Wildfire Detection Using MOOS-IvP: Integration, Communication, and Field Results, Steve Carter Feujo Nomeny, Kongsberg Discovery, MIT, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). PDF of Talk | |
| 1100-1115 | Developing an Open-Source Fixed-Wing sUAS for MOOS-IvP, Alyssa Hargis (MIT), Leslie Maldonado (Draper), Michael Benjamin (MIT) | |
| 1115-1145 | C-Ray Platform - Pliant Energy Systems, Carles Civit, Manuel Marin, Daniel Zimmerman, Benjamin Pietro Filardo, Pliant Energy | |
| 1145-1300 | LUNCH (On Your Own) Suggestions here | |
| 1300-1320 | MOOS-IvP Release 26.7 - What's New and What's coming, Mike Benjamin, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Marine Autonomy Lab | |
| 1320-1345 | The LAMSS Virtual Ocean: A Real-Time Testbed for Undersea Sensing, Communication, and Autonomy, Andrew Poulsen, Henrik Schmidt, and Toby Schneider, MIT, GobySoft | |
| 1345-1400 | BlueBoat: The Marine Autonomy Lab’s Augmentations for Research and Education, Jeremy Wenger (MIT), Ray Turrisi (MIT), Michael Benjamin (MIT) | |
| 1400-1415 | The Robonautics Autonomous Sailing Vessel, Walter Holemans, Joseph Curcio, Vincent Vandyck, Robonautics | |
| 1415-1430 | A Low-Cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Man-overboard and Maritime Search and Rescue, Michael Autery P.E, Gander Robotics, MIT Sloan. | |
| 1430-1445 | Break --- Break --- Break --- Break | |
| 1445-1500 | MOOS-IvP-Multi: a suite of multi-agent autonomy algorithms for collective artificial intelligence, Tyler Paine, MIT Mechanical Engineering. PDF of Talk | |
| 1500-1515 | Beyond the Acoustic Modem: MARIA and the Popoto Acoustic Platform, James DellaMorte, PopotoModem, a delResearch LLC brand | |
| 1515-1530 | PEARL: Platform for Expanding AUV exploRation to Longer ranges, Prof. Oli de Weck, Jonathan Stoppani, Charles Benjamin, Victoria Cure Hurtado, Adam Phan, Bill Chen, Sung Wook Paek, Jiulianna Dail, MIT AeroAstro, MIT Engineering and Systems Laboratory | |
| 1530-1545 | The MOOS External Interface (MEI): Bridging MOOS-IvP with External Systems and ROS 2, Michael DeFilippo and Supun Randeni, MIT Dept of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Sea Grant, PDF of Talk | |
| 1545-1600 | pTAKBridge: Integrating MOOS-IvP Autonomy with the TAK Ecosystem, Michael DeFilippo, MIT Dept of Mechanical Engineering, PDF of Talk | |
| 1600-1615 | Side-Scan Sonar Payload Integration with a Low-Cost Custom AUV, Joshua M. Lewis, Robotics Discovery Lab, University of Delaware | |
| 1615 | Adjourn - Informal appetizers and gathering at the Muddy Charles on the MIT Campus | |
