Speakers and Tentative Schedule
Date: May 23, 2022
Date: May 23, 2022
Start: 8:30am
Urban Air Mobility and Operations, (75min) [ 8:30-09:45]
Chair: Isabel del Pozo, AIRBUS
Panel Discussion, (20min) [09:45-10:05]
Discussion about main topics of Urban Air Mobility and Operations, Including sustainability
Chair: Victoria Jing Xiang, Ehang
Intelligent functionalities I, (15min) [10:05-10:20]
Chair: Anibal Ollero, University of Seville
Coffee Break: (30min) [10:20-10:50]
Intelligent functionalities II, (60min) [10:50-11:50]
Chair: Anibal Ollero, University of Seville
Panel discussion, (15min) [11:50-12:05]
Discussion about Intelligent Functionalities.
Urban mobility and Regulations (30min) [12:05-12:35]
Chair: Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver
Panel discussion, (10min) [12:35-12:45]
Discussion about Urban Mobility Regulations.
Lunch Break: (70 min) [12:45-13:55]
Contributed extended abstracts and Datasets (80min) [e.g., 13:55-15:15]
Chair: Kostas Alexis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Each talk lasts for 5min.
Robot technologies and interactive demonstrations - Part A (10min) [15:15-15:25]
Chair: Giuseppe Loianno
Coffee Break: (35min) [15:25-16:00]
Robot technologies and interactive demonstrations - Part B (60min) [16:00-17:00]
Chair: Giuseppe Loianno
Meeting of the Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, (30min) [17:00-17:30]
Chair: Anibal Ollero, University of Seville
Chair: Isabel del Pozo, AIRBUS
- Isabel Del Pozo and Scot Campbell (UTM lead at our Airbus Innovation Center in the US), “UTM as an enabler of future sustainable UAM” [08:30-08:45]
- Victoria Jing Xiang and Jose Ignacio Rexach, “Challenges for the Revolution in Urban Air Mobility with electrical Autonomous air vehicles” [08:45-09:00]
- Gavin Ananda, Flyzipline, “Autonomy at Scale” [09:00-09:15]
- Matt Satterley, Wing, “Experience of commercial drone delivery in shared skies on 3 continents” [09:15-09:30]
- Joseph Rios, NASA Ames, “Air Traffic Management for Autonomous Vehicles” [09:30-09:45]
Panel Discussion, (20min) [09:45-10:05]
Discussion about main topics of Urban Air Mobility and Operations, Including sustainability
Chair: Victoria Jing Xiang, Ehang
Intelligent functionalities I, (15min) [10:05-10:20]
Chair: Anibal Ollero, University of Seville
- Hyoun Jin Kim, Seoul National University , “Safe online path planning for multiple aerial robots” [10:05-10:20]
Coffee Break: (30min) [10:20-10:50]
Intelligent functionalities II, (60min) [10:50-11:50]
Chair: Anibal Ollero, University of Seville
- Davide Scaramuzza, Univ. Zurich, “ Environment perception capability for intelligent urban air mobility” [10:50-11:05]
- Marija Popović, University of Bonn, “Exploration and Informative Planning with Intelligent Aerial Vehicles” [11:05-11:20]
- Begoña Arrue, Univ. Sevilla, "Autonomous systems for battery recharging and package pickup/delivery" [11:20-11:35]
- A. Franchi, Univ. Twente, “An overview on the most recent optimization-based methods for cooperative perception and precise pick and place with aerial multi-robot systems” [11:35-11:50]
Panel discussion, (15min) [11:50-12:05]
Discussion about Intelligent Functionalities.
Urban mobility and Regulations (30min) [12:05-12:35]
Chair: Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver
- Prof. Anna Konert, Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland [12:05-12:20]
- Juan Bello, Director of the New York Center for Urban Science and Progress https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ijplIhf9sflyXajn81T1V_xc86GpflfQ/view?usp=sharing [12:20-12:35]
Panel discussion, (10min) [12:35-12:45]
Discussion about Urban Mobility Regulations.
Lunch Break: (70 min) [12:45-13:55]
Contributed extended abstracts and Datasets (80min) [e.g., 13:55-15:15]
Chair: Kostas Alexis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Each talk lasts for 5min.
- Drew Hanover, Davide Scaramuzza, "Adaptive Nonlinear MPC for Quadrotors"
- Michael Schleis, Fahmi Rouatbi, Daniel Cremers, "VPAIR- Aerial Visual Place Recognition and Localization in Large-scale Outdoor Environments"
- Andre Rangel de Sousa, Ni Wang, Ondrej Pokorny Vincent Yegenoglu, "A novel design of box-wing VTOL tailsitter aircraft towards enduring flight"
- Cora A. Dimmig, Gabriel Baraban, Anna Goodridge, Joyraj Bhowmick, and Marin Kobilarov, "A Small Form Factor Aerial Research Vehicle for Pick-and-Place Tasks with Onboard Real-Time Object Detection and Tracking"
- Leonard Bauersfeld and Davide Scaramuzza, "Range, Endurance and Optimal Speed Estimates for Multicopters "
- Mohammadreza Mousaei, Azarakhsh Keipour, Junyi Geng, and Sebastian Scherer, "VTOL Failure Detection and Recovery by Utilizing Redundancy"
- Jay Patrikar, Joao P. A. Dantas, Sourish Ghosh, Parv Kapoor, Ian Higgins, Jasmine J. Aloor, Ingrid Navarro, Jimin Sun, Ben Stoler, Milad Hamidi, Rohan Baijal, Brady Moon, Jean Oh, Sebastian Scherer, "Challenges in Close-Proximity Safe and Seamless Operation of Manned and Unmanned Aircraft in Shared Airspace"
- Malintha Fernando, Ransalu Senanayake, Ariful Azad, Martin Swany, "Graphical Games for UAV Swarm Control Under Time-Varying Communication Networks"
- Guanrui Li, Xinyang Liu, and Giuseppe Loianno, "RotorTM: A Flexible Simulator for Aerial Transportation and Manipulation"
- Robert Penicka and Davide Scaramuzza, "Minimum-time Planning for Aerial Robots in Cluttered Environments"
- Jeffrey Mao and Giuseppe Loianno, "Perching with Quadrotors using Active Visual Feedback"
- Alessandro Devo, Jeffrey Mao, Gabriele Costante, and Giuseppe Loianno, "Autonomous Single-Image Drone Exploration with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Mixed Reality"
- Shashwata Mandal, Tianshuang Gao, Sourabh Bhattacharya, "Planning for Aerial Robot Teams for Wide-Area Biometric and Phenotypic Data Collection"
- Bryan Convens, Kelly Merckaert, Marco M. Nicotra, and Bram Vanderborght, "Distributed Explicit Reference Governors for Real-Time, Guaranteed Safe, Performant, and Scalable Unmanned Aerial Traffic Management"
- Rasmus Eckholdt Andersen, Marcin Zajaczkowski, Harsh Jaiswal, Jianan Xu, Wenjie Fan, Evangelos Boukas, "Deep Learning on Depth Images for UAV Manhole Traversal"
- Mauricio Calva, "Aerial Systems for Inspection of Confined Spaces and congested Environments"
Robot technologies and interactive demonstrations - Part A (10min) [15:15-15:25]
Chair: Giuseppe Loianno
- Sebastian Scherer, "Safe & Seamless Close-proximity Operation of Manned and Unmanned Aircraft in Shared Airspace" [link]
Coffee Break: (35min) [15:25-16:00]
Robot technologies and interactive demonstrations - Part B (60min) [16:00-17:00]
Chair: Giuseppe Loianno
- Antonio Loquercio, "Introduction to the DodgeDrone Competition"
- Discussion
Meeting of the Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, (30min) [17:00-17:30]
Chair: Anibal Ollero, University of Seville
Organizers:
- Anibal Ollero, GRVC Robotics Lab, University of Seville, aollero@us.es, http://grvc.us.es/aollero, Co-Chair IEEE TC Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Isabel del Pozo, AIRBUS Unmanned Traffic Management
- Giuseppe Loianno, Agile Robotics and Perception Lab, New York University https://wp.nyu.edu/arpl/. Co-Chair IEEE TC Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Victoria Jing Xiang, Ehang, https://www.ehang.com/
- Kostas Alexis, Autonomous Robots Lab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, www.autonomousrobotslab.com
- Kimon Valavanis, DU Unmanned Systems Research Institute, University of Denver, Co-Chair IEEE TC Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.