Lakeside Research Days'13
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Topic: Multi-UAV systems
- Multi-UAV System Architecture
- Deployment Areas and Challenges
- Challenges in Sensing, Communication, Coordination
- UAV Swarms
- Business Opportunities with UAVs
Groupwork Results
- Groupwork 1: Multi-UAV system design
- What is a multi-UAV system?
- What are the building blocks of an autonomous multi-UAV system?
- What are the design challenges?
- Is autonomy desirable? When?
- Groupwork 2: Deployment areas and challenges
- What are the main civil applications?
- Existing case studies, applications
- What are the challenges in deploying an autonomous multi-UAV system in real-world?
- What can the researchers and engineers do to improve public perception of UAVs?
- Groupwork 3: Challenges in Sensing, Communication, Coordination
- What are the main challenges?
- What are the best suitable sensors, communication modules for small-scale UAVs? What is available?
- radio spectrum allocation
- vehicle, payload
- ground and airborne communication systems
- Is a UAV swarm feasible? What are the limitations?
- How do we coordinate the UAVs to achieve team behavior?
- Groupwork 4: Open Issues, publication & funding venues
- What are the open issues?
- How do we improve/develop safety, software and standards for UAVs?
- Where do we publish?
- What are the best suitable funding schemes?
- Groupwork 5:Dissemination and Collaboration Activities
Talks
- Roland Siegwart, ETH Zurich, Small Flying Robots - Design and Visual Navigation [slides][video]]
- Darius Burschka, Technische Universität München, Fusion of Distributed Perception in Collaborative Visual-SLAM Approaches on Mini-UAVs[slides]
- Horst Bischof, Technische Universität Graz, Exploiting Redundancy for Reliable Aerial Computer Vision [slides]
- Christian Bettstetter, Evsen Yanmaz, AAU, Lakeside Labs, Aerial Imaging and Wireless Communications with Multiple Autonomous UAVs [slides]
- Simon Lacroix, LAAS/CNRS, Decisional Issues in Multi-UAV Systems[slides]
- Angela Schöllig, University of Toronto, Slalom racing and flight dances – motion planning, control and learning for high-performance quadrocopter flight [slides][video]
- Stephen Cameron, Oxford University, Multi-Spectral People Detection from UAVs [slides]
- Enrico Natalizio, Heudiasyc Lab, UTC, Controlled Mobility in Wireless, Sensor, Actuator, and Robot Networks [slides]
- Martin Saska, Czech Technical University in Prague, Stabilization of MAV and MAV-UGV swarms based on a visual relative localization [slides]
- Saeed Yahyanejad, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Visual and thermal low-altitude aerial imagery for real-time monitoring [slides]
- Ashutosh Natraj, University of Oxford, Verification of reliability of multi-UAV for their use in any scenario [slides]
- Istvan Fehervari, Wilfried Elmenreich, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, On the Effects of the Robot Configuration on Evolving Coordinated Motion Behaviors [slides]
- Karin Hummel, ETH Zurich, They are ready - are they? Examining 802.11n aerial communications of search and rescue UAVs [slides]
- Christian Dombrowski, RWTH Aachen University, EchoRing: Wireless Network Design and Evaluation for Hard Real-Time Applications [slides]
Panel Topics
Roland Siegwart (ETH Zürich) Hermann Hellwagner (AAU) Phil Charlesworth (EADS Innovation Works, UK) Michael Rischmüller (Parrot S.A.)
