This full day hands-on Tutorial focuses UAV Construction. Panelists will provide in-depth knowledge on a broad range of topics including fabrication techniques, off-the-shelf avionics for guidance and control, and software development suites. This tutorial is a service activity organized by the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and UAVs.
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Also of interest: UAVs: Missions and Payloads Workshop - Monday May 15, 2006
Schedule of Activities
| Time | |||
| 08:00-08:50 | Coffee and Pastries | ||
| 08:50-09:00 | Paul Oh | Drexel University | Welcoming Remarks |
| 09:00-10:00 | Dr. David Shim | Berkeley Aerial Robotics Lab | Current State-of-the-Art in off-the-shelf UAV Avionics |
| 10:00-10:30 | Peter Heinemann | Novatel | GPS capabilities for UAV applications |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Bill Vaglienti | Cloud Cap Technology | Tools: Guidance, Navigation and Control Avionics |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Trammell Hudson | Rotomotion LLC | Turnkey Robotic Helicopters |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00-17:00 | Prof. Robert Wood | Harvard University | Fabrication Techniques: Aerial Robots |
| 17:00-17:30 | Closing Remarks | ||
Organizers
| Prof. Paul Y. Oh | Prof. Robert Wood | Prof. Kimon Valavanis | ||
| Drexel University | Harvard University | University of South Florida | ||
| Philadelphia PA 19104 | Cambridge MA 02138 | Tampa FL 66320 | ||
| paul@coe.drexel.edu | rjwood@eecs.harvard.edu | kvalavan@csee.usf.edu | ||
Panelist Bios
Dr. David Shim (U.C. Berkeley) is the Principal Development Engineer managing
the Berkeley UAV Research Group, BEAR. He is in charge of the development of advanced
flight control systems for UAVs. His research interests include flight control, path
planning, and multi-agent coordination.
Peter Heinemann (Novatel) is the Eastern Sales for Novatel, has worked
in the GPS industry for more than 20 years. NovAtel designs, markets and sells
high-precision GPS and other positioning components and sub-systems used in a wide variety of
commercial applications principally in the aviation, geomatics
(surveying and mapping), mining, precision agriculture, marine and
defense industries. NovAtel is also the principal supplier of
reference receivers to national aviation ground networks in the US,
Japan, Europe, China and India. NovAtel's solutions combine hardware,
such as receivers and antennas, with software to enable its customers
to fully integrate the Company's high-precision GPS technology into
their respective products and systems. NovAtel, an ISO 9001 certified
company, is focused on supplying core high-precision positioning
technology to OEMs and system integrators who build systems for
various end market applications.
Bill Vaglienti (Cloud Cap Technologies) is the Chief Technology
Officer, co-founder and head of Software for Cloud Cap. The company
was established in 1999 for the purpose of providing software and hardware solutions for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) market. Our efforts focus on developers of small unmanned aerial vehicles.
Trammell Hudson (Rotomotion LLC) started Rotomotion in 2003 to build
autopilot systems and VTOL UAV rotorcraft. Rotomotion's helicopters
and autopilots are being used around the world in a wide variety
of autonomous applications carrying customer payloads. Trammell
graduated from Tulane University's Computer Science department in
1998 and has been working on supercomputers with Sandia National
Labs and embedded systems in a range of projects since 1994.
Prof. Robert Wood (Harvard) is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in
Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Before Harvard, he worked as a
Postdoctoral Research Engineer at the Robotics Lab in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences at U.C. Berkeley where he worked on a number of
Micro Air Vehicle projects including the Micromechanical Flying Insect. Wood's
research covers the areas of mobile and fixed microrobotics, micro air
vehicles, biomimetic systems, composite materials for microrobotic
applications, and sensors and actuators.