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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 121 - Tucson, AZ - April 2018
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Research Institutions, Industry, and University Reports 4.2.1 Research Institutions and Companies 4.2.1.5 Aurora Flight Sciences
Title	Aurora Flight Sciences
Presenter	James Paduano
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Abstract	Aurora Flight Sciences is quickly integrating its activites with Boeing, having recently passed our 100th day as a Not Fully Integrated Subsidiary. There’s been a heavy strategic focus as well as a number of fruitful technical exchanges so that Aurora can contribute on many fronts, with the most important being autonomy, electric propulsion, and disruptive mobility (new vehicles for new missions). Cambridge is at the center of many of these activities, with plans to double in size over the next year and grow even further after. Two activities characterize the type of work we are doing. The first is a COTS-based, low-cost seeker that transforms a small UAS into a counter-UAS vehicle that can get within seeker range of a threat UAV (e.g. DJI Phantom carrying a mortar) using C-RAM communication, and then perfrom terminal guidance using a seeker that uses a steerable laser to illuminate the target and COTS binocular cameras to localize it. This system is being developed under funding from DIUx. The second project is an NAVAIR SBIR Phase II activity to use advanced search methods to minimize the ‘robustness’ of a route or trajectory planner, as a method to find bugs in the code. This ‘formal method’ relies on Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) to define robustness, and replaces brute force Monte Carlo with search methods that fail the system quickly. These projects highlight two areas of high interest at Aurora – Perception and Software Safety & Security.