Agenda & Presentations

8.30 - 10.35:
  • 8.30 - 8.35: Organizers - Welcome message
  • 8.35 - 8.55: Frank Mascarich, Kostas Alexis,  "Autonomous Exploration and Mapping of Subterranean Environments"
  • 8.55 - 9.15: Juha Roning, “Hybrid Flying-Rolling with Snake Arm for Oil and Gas Plan Inspection:The HYFLIERS H2020 project" 
  • 9.15 - 9.35: Luis Mejias Alvarez, "Unmanned Inspections in the Power Industry: From Data Processing to Navigation Challenges"
  • 9.35 - 10.35: Lightning talks from authors of accepted papers
    • 9.35 - 9.45: Prajwal Shanthakumar, Mandeep Singh, Kevin Yu, Jonah Orevillo, Eric Bianchi, Matthew Hebdon, Pratap Tokepar, "View Planning and Navigation Algorithms for Fully Autonomous Bridge Inspection with UAVs"
    • 9.45 - 9.55: Daniel R. McArthur, Arindam B. Chowdhury, David J. Cappelleri, "Planar Aerial Manipulation for Inspection and Maintenance"
    • 9.55 - 10.05: M. G. Mueller, P. Lutz, W. Stuerzl, R. Triebel, "Ultra-Wide FoV for flying inspection and maintenance platforms"
    • 10.05 - 10.15: Marius Fehr, Thomas Schneider, Marcin Dymczyk, Juergern Sturm, Roland Siegwart, "Visual-Inertial Teach and Repeat for Aerial Inspection"
    • 10.15 - 10.25: M. Zhao, F. Shi, T. Anzai, X. Chen, K. Okada, M. Inaba, "Transformable Multilinked Aerial Robot: Unique Approach to Aerial Manipulation and Exploration"
    • 10.25 - 10.35: A. Tsoukalas, A. Tzes, "Shortest 3D-path trajectory for mobile agents in urban environments for inspection purposes"
11:00 - 12:35:
  • 11.00 - 11.20: Mauricio Calva, "Present Challenges and the Future of Inspection in the Oil and Gas Industry"
  • 11.20 - 11.35: Nick Baranov, Andrew Chapman, "Current State of the Drone Inspection Industry"
  • 11.35 - 11.55: Fabiola Maffra, Lucas Teixeira, Margarita Chli, "Towards autonomous vision-based inspection using UAVs"
  • 11.55 - 12.15: Antonio Franchi, "Towards a taxonomy on aerial platforms with multi-directionalthrust: current and future challenges in design, control and trajectory generation"
  • 12.15 - 12.35: Dongjun Lee, "Toward Megabots: Distributed Rotors as a means for External Actuation to attainGravity-Defying, Light-Weight and Dexterous Large-Size Actuated Skeleton"
13:30 - 15:00:
  • 13.30- 13.50: Giuseppe Loianno, Vijay Kumar, "Autonomous Inspection and Mapping of Penstocks and Nuclear Infrastructures with MAVs, Research Challenges and Field Experiments" (presented by G. Loianno)
  • 13.50 - 14.10: Robert Mahony, "Aerial Inspection of Renewable Energy Infrastructure"
  • 14.10 - 14.30: J. Delmerico, D. Scaramuzza, "A Benchmark Comparison of Monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry Algorithms for Flying Robots"
  • 14.30 - 15.00: Lightning talks from authors of accepted papers
    • 14.30 - 14.40: Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Holger Voos, Guido Von Scheffer, Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Dario Cazzato, "AirFrame Inspections: A Solution using Autonomous UAVs"
    • 14.40 - 14.50: M. Tognon, E. Cataldi, H.A. Tello Chavez, G. Antonelli, J. Cortes, A. Franchi, "Motion Planning for Aerial Inspection by Contact"
    • 14.50 - 15.00: M. Tognon, C. Gabellieri, L. Pallottino, A. Franchi, "Commucation-less Aerial Co-Manipulation of a Cables-Suspended Bar"
15:30 - 17:00:
  • 15.30 - 15.50: Stefano Stramigioli, Matteo Fumagalli, "Physical Contact and Work on Difficulty Reachable Surfaces" (presented by S. Stramigioli)
  • 15.50 - 16.10: Kris Kydd, "Operational and Safety Requirements for Aerial Robotic Deployment in the Oil & Gas Industry"
  • 16.10 - 16.30: Lightning talks from authors of accepted papers
    • 16.10 - 16.20: S. Daftry, J. Delaune, R. Bhuta, L. Matthies, "Towards Vision-based Safe Autonomous Landing of MAVs at Night"
    • 16.20 - 16.30: S. Jung, S. Song, T. Oh, J. Lee, H. Jung, H. Myung, "Development of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System for Bridge Inspection and Its Experimental Results"
  • 16.30 - 16.50: G. Heredia, A. Ollero, "Aerial Robotic Manipulation for Contact Inspection and Maintenance" 
  • 16.50 - 17.00: Panel Discussion & Concluding Remarks
Accepted Short Presentations  & Posters
  1. Prajwal Shanthakumar, Mandeep Singh, Kevin Yu, Jonah Orevillo, Eric Bianchi, Matthew Hebdon, Pratap Tokepar, "View Planning and Navigation Algorithms for Fully Autonomous Bridge Inspection with UAVs"
  2. Daniel R. McArthur, Arindam B. Chowdhury, David J. Cappelleri, "Planar Aerial Manipulation for Inspection and Maintenance"
  3. M. G. Mueller, P. Lutz, W. Stuerzl, R. Triebel, "Ultra-Wide FoV for flying inspection and maintenance platforms"
  4. Marius Fehr, Thomas Schneider, Marcin Dymczyk, Juergern Sturm, Roland Siegwart, "Visual-Inertial Teach and Repeat for Aerial Inspection"
  5. M. Zhao, F. Shi, T. Anzai, X. Chen, K. Okada, M. Inaba, "Transformable Multilinked Aerial Robot: Unique Approach to Aerial Manipulation and Exploration"
  6. Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Holger Voos, Guido Von Scheffer, Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Dario Cazzato, "AirFrame Inspections: A Solution using Autonomous UAVs"
  7. M. Tognon, E. Cataldi, H.A. Tello Chavez, G. Antonelli, J. Cortes, A. Franchi, "Motion Planning for Aerial Inspection by Contact"
  8. M. Tognon, C. Gabellieri, L. Pallottino, A. Franchi, "Commucation-less Aerial Co-Manipulation of a Cables-Suspended Bar"
  9. S. Daftry, J. Delaune, R. Bhuta, L. Matthies, "Towards Vision-based Safe Autonomous Landing of MAVs at Night"
  10. S. Jung, S. Song, T. Oh, J. Lee, H. Jung, H. Myung, "Development of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System for Bridge Inspection and Its Experimental Results"


Core Speakers List:
  1. Luis Mejias Alvarez, "Unmanned Inspections in the Power Industry: From Data Processing to Navigation Challenges"
  2. Mauricio Calva, "Present Challenges and the Future of Inspection in the Oil and Gas Industry"
  3. Andrew Chapman, 'Experiences from Field Work on Aerial Robotic Industrial Inspection"
  4. Margarita Chli, "Visual Perception for Aerial Robots"
  5. Antonio Franchi, "Aerial Physical Interaction and Deep Learning: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice"
  6. Dongjun Lee, "Some design, sensing and control issues of aerial manipulation and operation systems for their real-world adoption"
  7. Giuseppe Loianno, Vijay Kumar, "Autonomous Inspection and Mapping of Penstocks and Nuclear Infrastructures with MAVs, Research Challenges and Field Experiments"
  8. Robert Mahony, "Aerial Inspection of Renewable Energy Infrastructure"
  9. George Nkolakolopoulos, "Real Life Multi-Agent Aerial Inspection - Overcoming the feat to go outside the lab"
  10. Anibal Ollero, "Aerial Robotic Manipulation for Contact Inspection and Maintenance"
  11. Juha Roning, "Hybrid Flying-Rolling with Snake Arm for Oil and Gas Plan Inspection: The HYFLIERS H2020 project"
  12. Stefano Stramigioli, Matteo Fumagalli, "Physical Contact and Work on Difficulty Reachable Surfaces"
  13. Kris Kydd, "Operational and Safety Requirements for Aerial Robotic Deployment in the Oil & Gas Industry"