ASTRAEA Website - ASTRAEA 2008 Conference

The ASTRAEA 2008 conference will be held on Tuesday June 24^th at Parc Aberporth, just before the Parc Aberporth Unmanned Systems (PAUS) conference and demonstrations.

The conference is open to all and will be an opportunity for those interested to understand some of the technical progress on ASTRAEA, view some ASTRAEA demonstrations and question and interact with the ASTRAEA researchers.

12:00 Registration and Buffet Lunch

13:00 Welcome – Phil Woods, Projects Coordinator, ASTRAEA

13:05 An introduction to ASTRAEA – Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal, Project Director (Click here to see the Presentation)

13:30 Autonomy in ASTRAEA – Mark Westwood, QinetiQ (Click here to see the Presentation)

14:00 Prognostics and Health Management – Clive Downes, BAE Systems (Click here to see the Presentation)

14:30 Tea break

15:00 Secure Communications and inputs to WRC 2011– Jeff Howe, EADS (Click here to see the Presentation)

15:30 Collision Avoidance Modelling in ASTRAEA– Graham Knight, THALES (Click here to see the Presentation)

16:00 Low cost engine design and manufacture– Kate Barnard, Rolls-Royce (Click here to see the Presentation)

16:30 Discussion session

16:55 Closing remarks – Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal

17:00 Informal session for a set of ASTRAEA demonstrations

18:30 Close