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Activities in the last years

1. Organization of Conferences and workshops

2021

1st Aerial Robots Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO)

October 4-5, 2021. Biograd na Moru, Croatia.

Research and Education on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS)

November 25-27, 2019. Cranfield, UK.

International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

June 15-18, 2021. Athens, Greece. Hybrid format.

2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Workshop "Resilient and Long-Term Autonomy for Aerial Robotic Systems".

May 31, 2021. Xi'an, China

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Workshop "Integrated Perception, Learning, and Control for Agile Autonomous Vehicles".

October 1, 2021. Prague, Czech Republic. Online.

2020

International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

September 2-4, 2020. Athens, Greece. Hybrid format.

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Workshop "Perception, Learning, and Control for Autonomous Agile Vehicles".

November 2-3, 2020. Las Vegas, Nevada (USA). Online.

2019

Research and Education on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS)

November 25-27, 2019. Cranfield, UK.

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Workshop "Challenges in Vision-based Drones Navigation".

November 8, 2019. Macau.

International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

June 11-14, 2019. Atlanta, Georgia (USA).

3rd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics (ISAR)

May 27-28, 2019. Toronto, Canada

2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Workshop "The Future of Aerial Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities".

May 23rd, 2019. Montréal, Canada

Agenda

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  • Wancheol Myeong, Sungwook Jung, Byengho Yu, Chris Tirtawardhana, Seungwon Song, Jinkwang Kim, Junbo Choi - Development of Wall-Climbing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System for Micro-Inspection Bridges
  • Mubariz Zaffar, Ahmad Khaliq, Sboaid Ehsan, Michael Milford, Kostas Alexis, Klaus Mcdonald-Maier - Are State-of-the-art Visual Place Recognition Techniques Any Good for Aerial Robotics?  
  • Antonio Franchi - Resilient Design and Control of Multirotor Aerial Vehicles
  • Stepjan Bogdan - coordination of UAV -UGV teams
  • Vijay Kumar - Challenges for Fast Autonomous Navigation with Lightweight Drones"
  • Anas Zeineddine, KryptoLabs - “DroneXChallenge”
  • Dario Floreano - "Morpho-functional Drones"
  • Mirko Kovac - Adaptative morphology for Aerial Robotics
  • Guillermo Heredia and Alejandro Suarez - Compliance in aerial manipulation
  • Kazuhiro Shinomura - Aerial manipulation with wire-suspended devices
  • Weidong Sun, Gao Tang, Kris Hauser - Fast UAV Generation Using Bilevel Optimization
  • Adam Bry & Gareth Cross (Skydio) - "Fully Autonomous Flying Robots in the Wild"
  • Sanyul Park, Hyunsoo Yang, Donjung Lee - Large-size aerial skeleton with distributed rotor actuation (LASDRA) Perception and control
  • Davide Scaramuzza - Fast, Vision-controlled drones
  • Sébastian Arola and Moulay A. Akhloufi: UAV Pursuit-Evasion using Deep Learning and Search Area Proposal
  • John R. Hoare, Justin Foehner, Steven R. Gray, Yew Teck Tan - UAV-UGV Teaming for coordinated Flights in Confined and GPS-Denied environments
  • Daniele Pucci, Luca Fiorio, Silvio Traversaro, Gabriele Nava, Giuseppe L'erario, Hosameldin Awadalla, Fabio Bergonti, Giorgio Metta - Towards Aerial Humanoid Robotics
  • Carmelo Donato Melita, Dario Calogera Guastella, Giuseppe Di Marco, Irene Minio, Luciano Cantelli - Autonomous low-atitude flight with a multi-rotor and experimental results 
  • Adrien Briod- Safe drones for inaccesible places
  • Anibal Ollero - Aerial Robotics: challenges and opportunities

2018

2nd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics (ISAR)

June 11th & 12th. 2018. Philadelphia (USA)

Website

2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft systems (ICUAS)

June 12-15. 2018. Dallas, Tx.

Website

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Tutorial "Aerial Robotic Manipulation".

October 5, 2018. Madrid, Spain.

2017

RED-UAS

October 3-5. 2017. Linköping, Sweden.

Website

1st International Symposium on Aerial Robotics (ISAR)

June 19th & 20th. 2017. Philadelphia (USA)

Website

2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft systems (ICUAS)

June 13-16, 2017. Miami, FL.

Website

2017 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Full day workshop. Autonomous structural monitoring and maintenance using aerial robots

May 29th, 2017. Singapore.

Website

2016

2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft systems (ICUAS)

June 7-10, 2016. Arlington, VA. USA.

Website

2016 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Aerial robotics manipulation: from simulation to real life. 

Best IEEE technical comittee award

May 20th. 2016. Stockholm (Sweden)

Website

2015

RED-UAS

November 23-25. 2015. Cancún, Mexico.

Website

2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft systems (ICUAS)

June 9-12. 2015. Denver, CO. USA.

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2015 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Full day workshop. Aerial robotics manipulation and load transportation

May 26. 2015. Seattle, WA (USA)

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2. Support of Conferences and Workshops: 

2021

ERF 2021

Autonomy in Aerial Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance

April 13, 2021. Rotterdam, The Netherlands. On-line.

Website

IEEE International Symposium on Search, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)

October 25-27, 2021. New York, USA.

2020

ERF 2020

Aerial Intelligent Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance

March 3, 2020. Málaga, Spain.

Website

2019

ERF 2019

Aerial Robotics Technologies and Applications with the new European UAS regulation

March 21st. 2019. Bucharest, Romania.

Website

ROBOT 2019 - Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference

organized by the Spanish Society of Research and Development in Robotics (SEIDROB, Sister Society of IEEE-RAS)

November 20-22, 2019. Porto, Portugal.

2018

ERF 2018

Aerial robotics for inspection, maintenance and transportation

March 13th. 2018. Tampere, Finland.

Website

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Workshop "Aerial robotic inspection and maintenance: research challenges, field experience and industry needs".

May 25th. 2018. Brisbane, Australia.

2017

ERF 2017

Aerial robotics inspection: from prototypes to industrial applications

March 24th. 2017. Edimburg, Scotland (UK)

Website

Robot 2017 - Third Iberian Robotics Conference

November 22-24th. 2017. Seville (Spain).

Website

2016

ERF 2016

Aerial Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance.

March 22th. 2016. Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Website

Workshop Aerial Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance

July 7th, 2016. Madrid (Spain)

Workshop Robotics and Unmanned Systems for Security Applications

December 2nd. 2016. Madrid (Spain)

2015

ERF 2015

Workshop Robotics and Unmanned Systems for Security Applications

March 12th, 2015. Vienna, Austria

ROBOT 2015 - Second Iberian Robotics Conference

November 19-21, 2015. Lisbon, Portugal.


3. Contribution to collective works

Encyclopedia of Robotics

Editors: Ang, Marcelo H., Khatib, Oussama; Siciliano, Bruno .

Section “Aerial Robotics”, coordinated by A. Ollero. To appear in 2019.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Editors in chief: Richard Blockley, Wei Shyy.

Editors: Ella Atkins, Anibal Ollero, Antonios Tsourdos.

November 2016. Wiley. The book has 728 pages.

Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (new edition)

Editors: K. Valavanis, and G. Vachtsevanos.

Springer. The handbook has currently almost 3,000 pages. New edition planned for 2019.