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 - Thursday July 30th, 2026

THURSDAYJuly 30th 2026
TimeMIT Sailing Pavilion (Morning)
ROOM 32-155 (Afternoon)
0830-1200DEMO DAY
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The MIT Sailing Pavilion
1200-1300LUNCH
( at 1130 am at the Pavilion or otherwise On Your Own)
1315-1335The SubSeaSail Autonomous Vessel, Phil Freidhoff, Caliburn. Presenting for SubSeaSail Inc
1335-1350Agentic Coding and MOOS-IvP, Charles Benjamin, McGill University, Centre for Intelligent Machines. PDF of Talk
1350-1410Coastal Monitoring - Electric Survey Vehicles, Sigurd Von Brandis, Sigurd Nordbye, Kongsberg Discovery, Norwegian University of Science andTechnology (NTNU). PDF of Talk
1410-1430"AI Based Planning for Small Fleets", Prof. Greg Dudek, McGill University, Centre for Intelligent Machines.
1430-1445CI/CD for MOOS-IvP: Mission Test Harnesses and Takeaways for Downstream Development,
Charles Benjamin, McGill University, Centre for Intelligent Machines
1445-1500Break --- Break --- Break --- Break
1500-1520Macrura Rides Again! - Accurate delivery of seafloor payloads via AUV, David Battle, Mission Systems.
1520-1540From Learned Coordination to Safe Deployment: Integrating Compliance into Learning-Based Multi-Robot Marine Autonomy, Everardo Gonzalez , T. Paine, Manuel Agraz Vallejo, G. Dixit, M. Benjamin, K. Tumer, Oregon State University, and MIT Marine Autonomy Lab.
1540-1600Integrating Mission Planning and Execution with MOOS-IvP, Cristiano Caissutti, Andrea Munafò, Gabriele Ferri, University of Pisa, and CMRE.
1600-1615The PAVRANGE Acoustic Ranging System, Capt. Michael Sacarny, MIT Sea Grant, AUV Lab
1615-1630Navigation and C2 Ranging for Undersea Vehicles in the Midwater Column, Ethan Park, Triton Systems, Supun Rendeni, MIT Dept of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Sea Grant.
1630-1645Talking to MOOSDB: An LLM Experiment for Non-Developers, Ian Cheng, JetSea, AI.
--Discussions / Adjourn