Introduction
Chair: Anibal Ollero
● Aníbal Ollero (Univ. Sevilla and FADA-CATEC), Giuseppe Loianno (New YorkUniversity), Hyoun Jin Kim from (Seoul National University) and Kimon Valavanis (University of Denver).
’25 years of aerial robotics’.
Unmanned Aerial Systems
Chair: Kimon Valavanis
● Dario Floreano, EPFL, Switzerland. dario.floreano@epfl.ch
‘Birds: the next frontier for agile and multi-modal drones’.
● Stjepan Bogdan, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Stjepan.Bogdan@fer.hr
‘Autonomous UAV based inspection of wind turbines in operation‘.
● Questions and discussion
Navigation and planning
Chair: Melissa Greef
● Kostas Alexis, NTNU, Norways. konstantinos.alexis@ntnu.no
‘Resilient Navigation across Environments: Systems and Methods‘.
● Randy Beard, Brigham Young University, United States of America. beard@byu.edu
‘Continuous-time planning and estimation with applications to unmanned aircraft systems‘.
● Nicholas Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,United States of
America. nickroy@csail.mit.edu
● Questions and discussion
Aerial Robotic Systems physically interacting with the environment
Chair: H. Jin Kim
● Dongjun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea. djlee@snu.ac.kr
‘LASDRA: A New Robotic Platform for Height Operation with Large Force and Long Operation Time‘.
● Antonio Franchi, University of Twente, The Netherlands. a.franchi@utwente.nl
‘New tasks, models, and control methods for aerial robots with cable-suspended loads’
● Questions and discussion
Perception Based Aerial Robotics
Chair: Giuseppe Loianno
● Davide Scaramuzza, University of Zurich, Switzerland. sdavide@ifi.uzh.ch
‘Learning Autonomous Drone Racing‘.
● Soon-Jo Chung, California Institute of Technology, United States of America. a.franchi@utwente.nl
‘Impact of aerial robotics research: from high-speed drones to autonomous racecars’.
● Questions and discussion
Multi-robot systems
Chair: Marco Tognon
● Angela Schoelling, Technical University of Munich, Germany. angela.schoellig@tum.de
‘Aerial swarms: from language-based interaction to safe motion plans in cluttered environments‘.
● Martin Saska, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic. Martin.Saska@cvut.cz
‘Teams of closely cooperating aerial robots: From laboratories to real-world deployment and industrial applications’.
● Questions and discussion