Program

• Morning:
  • 8.30-8.45: Welcome and Introduction.
  • 8.45-9.45: "The Berkeley Aerial Robot Project (BEAR)"
    René Vidal, Shankar Sastry, Jin Kim, Omid Shakernia and David Shim.
    University of California at Berkeley, USA.
  • 9.45-10.40: Projects on Aerial Robotics (I).
    
    • Introduction.
      A. Ollero.
      University of Seville, Spain.
    • The ANSER project: Cooperative Data Fusion amongst Multiple UAVs.
      Salah Sukkarieh.
      University of Sydney, Australia.
    • Challenges of the autonomous air vehicle project of ONERA.
      Patrick Fabiani.
      ONERA, France.
  • 10.40-11.00: Coffee Break.
  • 11.00-11.50: Projects on Aerial Robotics (II).
    • UAVNET: Civil UAV activity within the Framework of European Commission Research.
      Dirk-Roger Schmitt.
      DLR Braunschweig, Germany.
    • The EPFL Adaptive Vision-based Flying Robots Project: Evolving vision-based neuromorphic controllers for miniature flying robots.
      Jean-Christophe Zufferey.
      EPFL, Switzerland.
    • The WITAS Project.
      Klas Nordberg.
      Linkoping University, Sweden.
    • Robotic Airships from the perspective of the AURORA project.
      Samuel Bueno.
      CenPRA/LRVC, Campinas, Brazil.
  • 11.50-12.10: "Forest fire perception using aerial images in the COMETS Project"
    Luis Merino and Anibal Ollero.
    University of Seville, Spain.
  • 12.10-12.30: "MARVIN - An Autonomous Flying Robot -Based On Mass Market Components"
    Volker Remuß, Marek Musial, Günter Hommel.
    Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
    
• 12.30-14.00: Lunch break.

• Afternoon:
  • 14.00-14.25: "Vision for a UAV helicopter"
    Klas Nordberg, Patrick Doherty, Gunnar Farneback, Per-Erik Forssen, Gosta Granlund, Anders Moe and Johan Wiklund.
    Linkoping University, Sweden.
  • 14.25-14.50: "The autonomous blimp project of LAAS/CNRS - Current status and research challenges"
    Simon Lacroix, Il-Kyun Jung, Philippe Soueres, Emmanuel Hygounenc and Jean-Paul Berry.
    LAAS/CNRS, France.
  • 14.50-15.15: "Project AURORA: Towards an Autonomous Robotic Airship"
    Samuel Bueno(1), José Azinheira(2), Josué Ramos(1), Ely Paiva(1), Patrick Rives(3), Alberto Elfes(4), José Carvalho(1) and Geraldo Silveira(1).
    (1)CenPRA/LRVC, Campinas, Brazil; (2)IST/IDMEC, Lisbon, Portugal; (3) INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France; (4) FAW, Ulm, Germany.
  • 15.40-16.05: Coffee Break.
  • 15.40-16.05: "Research Airship Lotte. Development and operation of controllers for autonomous flight phases"
    Dirk-A. Wimmer, Michael Bildstein, Klaus H. Well, Markus Schlenker, Peter Kungl and Bernd-H. Kröplin.
    University of Stuttgart, Germany.
  • 16.05-16.30: "An autonomous helicopter guided by computer vision for inspection of overhead power cable"
    Jaime Del-Cerro, Antonio Barrientos, Pascual Campoy and Pedro García.
    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
  • 16.30-17.30: Panel Discussion: Aerial Robotics Platforms and Applications.
    Introduction: R. Chatila.
    LAAS-CNRS, France.