Call for Contributions
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Following the growing interest and advancements in automating structural monitoring and maintenance using aerial robots, we invite relevant contributions corresponding to any of the **Topics Of Interest** listed below. The accepted contributions will be featured as short talks alongside presentations by invited speakers and/or as posters at the interactive session. Eventually, all accepted contributions will be included in the online workshop's proceedings.
We invite two types of contributions to be presented at the workshop:
Important Dates
Objectives
Aerial robotics have demonstrated their capacity to contribute into structural monitoring and maintenance operations. A large set of projects worldwide contribute into the relevant challenges of control, mapping, planning and task allocation among multi-robot teams, and significant field demonstration activities are on the way. Among others, research groups have evaluated the ability of aerial robotics to perform high-resolution mapping and execute useful work-tasks via means of aerial manipulation.
This workshop addresses aerial robotic technologies for autonomous inspection, monitoring and manipulation for maintenance work-task execution, a growing necessity that demands groundbreaking progress in multiple fields including those of robot localization and mapping, semantics classification, path planning for exploration and inspection, aerial manipulation design and control, as well as multi-robot systems. This workshop consists of a mixture of presentations from invited speakers, lighting talks, overview of a relevant simulation system and live examples, a poster session and round table discusions. Furthermore, adequate time for questions is allocated to enable an interactive experience.
Topics of interest (indicative but not exclusive)
Control
Perception
Planning
Invited Speakers
Organizers
Support
This proposed workshop is supported by:
1) IEEE RAS TC 1 Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
2) The National Robotics Initiative (NRI) projects "NRI: Large: Collaborative Research: Fast and Accurate Infrastructure Modeling and Inspection with Low-Flying Robots" and "NRI: Collaborative Research: Multi-modal Characterization of DOE-EM Facilities"
3) The European union projects "AEROARMS: AErial RObotic system integrating multiple ARMS and advanced manipulation capabilities for inspection and maintenance" and "AEROWORKS: Collaborative Aerial Robotic Workers"
We invite two types of contributions to be presented at the workshop:
- Posters: submit a 1-page extended abstract to be considered for presentation at the interactive session, and/or
- Short Papers: submit a manuscript of up to 3 pages to be considered for presentation as a short talk
Important Dates
- Poster abstract submission: February 16, 2017 (AoE).
- Notification of acceptance: February 24, 2017 (AoE).
- Workshop: May 29, 2017.
Objectives
Aerial robotics have demonstrated their capacity to contribute into structural monitoring and maintenance operations. A large set of projects worldwide contribute into the relevant challenges of control, mapping, planning and task allocation among multi-robot teams, and significant field demonstration activities are on the way. Among others, research groups have evaluated the ability of aerial robotics to perform high-resolution mapping and execute useful work-tasks via means of aerial manipulation.
This workshop addresses aerial robotic technologies for autonomous inspection, monitoring and manipulation for maintenance work-task execution, a growing necessity that demands groundbreaking progress in multiple fields including those of robot localization and mapping, semantics classification, path planning for exploration and inspection, aerial manipulation design and control, as well as multi-robot systems. This workshop consists of a mixture of presentations from invited speakers, lighting talks, overview of a relevant simulation system and live examples, a poster session and round table discusions. Furthermore, adequate time for questions is allocated to enable an interactive experience.
Topics of interest (indicative but not exclusive)
Control
- Aerial manipulation control
- Disturbance attenuation and robust control
- Whole-body control
- Multiple-arms aerial manipulation
- Collaborative aerial manipulation
Perception
- Dense mapping for inspection operations
- Mapping for aerial manipulation
- Localization and mapping in visually-degraded environments
- Semantic scene understanding
- Collaborative mapping
Planning
- Planning for autonomous exploration
- Planning for optimized coverage
- Planning under uncertainty for exploration and mapping
- Learning inspection behaviors
- Collaborative exploration and inspection planning
Invited Speakers
- Gianluca Antonelli
- Antonio Franchi
- Vijay Kumar
- Dongjun Lee
- Nathan Michael
- Anibal Ollero
- Sebastian Scherer
- Roland Siegwart
- Stefano Stramigioli
Organizers
- Markus Achtelik, Ascending Technologies, Intel Corporation, DE
- Kostas Alexis, Autonomous Robots Lab, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
- Gianluca Antonelli, Università di Cassino, IT
- Margarita Chli, Vision for Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, CH
- Anibal Ollero, University of Seville, ES
- Roland Siegwart, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, CH
- Kimon Valavanis, Professor & Chair, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Denver
Support
This proposed workshop is supported by:
1) IEEE RAS TC 1 Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
2) The National Robotics Initiative (NRI) projects "NRI: Large: Collaborative Research: Fast and Accurate Infrastructure Modeling and Inspection with Low-Flying Robots" and "NRI: Collaborative Research: Multi-modal Characterization of DOE-EM Facilities"
3) The European union projects "AEROARMS: AErial RObotic system integrating multiple ARMS and advanced manipulation capabilities for inspection and maintenance" and "AEROWORKS: Collaborative Aerial Robotic Workers"
