IROS-2002 Workshop on
Aerial Robotics
October 1, 2002 - Lausanne, Switzerland
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.