Programme2021

Lectures

Day 1

04 Oct 2021

Day 2

05 Oct 2021

08:30-09:10

Room Adriatic

Anibal Ollero

Intelligent and bioinspired aerial manipulators

This keynote talk will introduce different operational modes of aerial manipulators, by including manipulation while flying, holding and perching. Next will present different perception and planning functionalities for aerial manipulators....

Anibal Ollero

09:15-09:45

Room Adriatic

Fausto Ferreira

Operating drones at sea – regulatory framework and similarities with marine drones

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (popularly known as drones) have become ubiquitous in the past few years. Having drones quickly covering large areas over the sea can be very useful in several...

Fausto Ferreira

09:45-10:15

Room Adriatic

Simon Lacroix

Exploring atmospheric phenomena with a fleet of UAVs

The fine understanding or monitoring of atmospheric phenomena such as clouds or plumes requires the acquisition of spatially dense information over their lifespan. Fleets of fixed-wing UAVs carrying dedicated sensors...

Simon Lacroix

10:15-10:45

Room Adriatic

Ivana Mikolic

NATO-EU collaboration in practice: NATO STO CMRE

NATO and the European Union (EU) share strategic interests and face same challenges. They cooperate on issues of common interest and are working side by side in crisis management, capability...

Ivana Mikolic

10:45-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-11:45

Room Adriatic

Dario Lesic

DJI enterprise solutions and applications

Current DJI Enterprise solutions. Applications in the field of mapping, control, agronomy, energy and infrastructure.

Dario Lesic

11:45-12:15

Room Adriatic

Toni Zlopasa

Flying unmanned aerial vehicles in the Republic of Croatia

The lecture will provide participants with an insight into how to legally perform flight operations with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAS) systems in the Republic of Croatia in accordance with the...

Toni Zlopasa

12:15-12:35

Room Adriatic

Filip Biocic

Unamanned systems of the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service

Lecture on the history of unmanned systems in Croatian Mountain Rescue Service, the formation of unmanned systems, the way the department works, lives saved, areas of application.

Filip Biocic

12:35-12:55

Room Adriatic

Goran Gasparovic

Feasibility of electric and hybrid propulsion powertrains in modern unmanned aircraft and urban air mobility: Will the power grid be able to support it?

UAS are a promising solution for last-mile delivery, be it for cargo, of urban air mobility (UAM), for people. While UAM has been around for decades, in form of helicopter...

Goran Gasparovic

12:55-14:30

Lunch break

14:30-18:00

FlightZone

Exhibition & Demos

17:00-18:00

FlightZone

Happy Hour

08:30-09:10

Room Adriatic

Kimon P. Valavanis

Challenges in Controller Design for Unconventional UAVs

Modeling and control of NextGen unmanned aircraft, including reconfigurable and hybrid ones, require consideration and incorporation of time-varying parameters and unstructured uncertainties. Accurate modeling includes not just one ‘nominal’ model,...

Kimon P. Valavanis

09:15-09:45

Room Adriatic

Rafael Fierro

Coordination of Aerial and Spacecraft Robotics

In the last decade, the field of aerial robotics has experienced fast-growth especially for the case of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). High-performance micro-scale processors and high-efficiency sensors have helped...

Rafael Fierro

9:45-10:15

Room Adriatic

Ivana Palunko

Heterogeneous multi-agent systems for monitoring and preservation of marine environment

Oceans are negatively affected by human activities that harm marine life, undermine coastal communities and impact human health, with marine litter being one of the most significant issues facing oceans...

Ivana Palunko

10:15-10:45

Room Adriatic

Martin Saska

Self-localised swarms of micro aerial vehicles in real-world scenarios

Real-world (outdoor and indoor) deployment of large teams of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) without possibility precise external localisation, such as GNSS and motion capture systems, is a challenging task. In...

Martin Saska

10:45-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-11:45

Room Adriatic

José Ramiro Martinez de Dios

Heterogeneous Aerial Robot Cooperation for Inspection and Maintenance

There is an increasing interest in many sectors in the automation of inspection and maintenance (I&M) activities through the application of aerial robots. In the last years, various aerial robots have been...

José Ramiro Martinez de Dios

11:45-12:15

Room Adriatic

Frano Petric

LARICS at MBZIRC 2020

The talk will cover the LARICS competitive robotics journey, beginning at the European Robotics Challenges (EuRoC), via the European Robotics League (ERL), culminating with the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics...

Frano Petric

12:15-12:45

Room Adriatic

Mirko Kovac

Multi-modal Aerial Robotics for Environmental Sensing and Construction

Environmental and infrastructure sciences rely heavily on accurate, timely and complete data sets which are often collected manually at significant risks and costs. Robotics and mobile sensor networks can collect...

Mirko Kovac

12:45-13:05

Room Adriatic

Sam Lowe

FACE – Detection, Tracking and Identifiction of Drones

Sam Lowe of Operational Solutions Limited, will be providing an insight into how detection, tracking, and identification technologies in an integrated manner are crucial in ensuring drones can operate within...