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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
  • Collaboration and Dissimination Platforms

Talks

• Roland Siegwart, ETH Zurich, Small Flying Robots - Design and Visual Navigation [1][slides
• 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]
• 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.)

• Multi-UAV Business Opportunities

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