Thinking Through Autonomy with Ken Dunlap Thinking Through Autonomy with Ken Dunlap

The inside story of how a dedicated team of engineers and explorers developed cutting-edge autonomous navigation technology to use on Mars, as shared by Dr. Jeff Delaune of Ingenuity’s Navigation Team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Our conversation details how the helicopter finds its way around Mars and the navigation technologies the Ingenuity helicopter team invented to accomplish one of the greatest engineering feats in aviation history.

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The unfolding AI revolution in commercial aviation is far broader than the envisioned pilotless airplane flown by a HAL9000. Learn about how airplanes, airlines, and airports will never be the same because of AI. Joining me is Mark Roboff, most recently General Manager of Transformation for Aerospace at DXC Technology.

Mark’s an industry visionary, consensus builder, and standards maven for using AI in commercial aviation. He has an expansive career at the epicenter of AI including a gig with IBM’s Watson, co-inventor on 2 patents covering natural language processing, and Chairman of one of the most important committees steering the vision for AI in commercial aviation.

Mark is now working on a top secret project that could change flying as we know it. Will he spill the beans??

How do you position your business for success in a post-COVID world?

How do you inject your organization with more creativity and innovation?

You must design an environment where team members have the freedom and support to take a chance.

Israel Stol is a leading inventor, author, lecturer, and corporate business process consultant. He is also a professional welding development engineer with numerous patents for advanced torpedo propulsion and welding processes.

Israel has worked at SpaceX and is a founder of Always-βeta, LLC.

You’ll hear Ken and Israel discuss the challenges of remote work, the systems that support innovation, and the huge value created by advancing technology.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/israel-stol-50b09059/

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Uber’s ground breaking Elevate program is single handily responsible for ushering in the age of on demand quiet electric aircraft (eVTOL)that fly above the grid and across cities. It presents an entirely new mode of transportation. Joining us is Danielle Rinsler, Head of Aviation Policy and John Illson, Head of Aviation Safety for Uber.

Stella Weidner is Director Regulatory Affairs-Autonomous Systems Engineering at Boeing. In this episode, she shares her unique perspectives that span safety and engineering at Boeing and the UAS industry. We’ll build pictures of both the range of UAS programs/aircraft Boeing is advancing and the many challenges associated with aircraft and production certification.

Andy Cebula is Vice-President, NextGen and New Entrants at Airlines for America. In this segment Ken taps Andy’s unique perspective of how the civil aviation safely system operates and interconnects. We'll focus on the key questions facing the aviation industry, especially what does the unmanned community need to understand about sharing the airspace with commercial aviation?