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

Young researchers panel

Chair: Melissa Grewe