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IEEE IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference
on Intelligent RObots and Systems
September, 22-26, 2008
Nice, France
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Workshop on Visual guidance systems for small autonomous aerial vehicles


Date : 22 September 2008
(Full day)

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Program

This program can be downloaded here.



8 h45  Welcome


Optic flow sensors (Chair : N. Franceschini)


9 h00 
Guest Lecturer
D. O'Carroll (Univ. Adelaide) : Biomimetic and bio-inspired motion detectors based on insect vision.
9 h40 G. Barrows (Centeye Inc., USA) : Minimalist Vision Sensors for Micro Air Vehicles.
10h00 S. Fuller (Caltech, USA) : Reichardt Correlators observing a constructed environment.
10h20 S. Liu (ETHZ, Zurich) : A time-of-travel motion detection chip for steering autonomous robots.
10h40 Coffee Break


Control and self-localisation (Chair : S. Viollet)


11h00 G. Conte (Linköping Univ., Sweden) : A GPS Independent Navigation System for UAVs.
11h20 T. Hamel (I3S, Nice) : Advanced flight control for VTOL UAV using Image-based control paradigm.
11h40 C. Taylor (Brigham Young Univ., USA) : Using Vision to Improve MAV Pose Estimation.
12h00 L. Derafa (LISV, Paris/Algers) : Real-Time Motion Detection and Tracking in Aerial Video.
12h20 D. Burschka (München Univ.) : Monocular Vision-Based Navigation Strategies for Small Autonomous Aerial Vehicles.
12h40 S. Bouabdallah (ETHZ, Zurich), S. Grzonka (Freiburg) : Towards a Fully Autonomous Indoor Helicopter.
13h00 Lunch Break


Optic flow-based control strategies (Chair : F. Ruffier)


14h30 J. Serres (CNRS/Univ. Marseille) : A bio-inspired optic flow based autopilot for guiding a miniature hovercraft in corridors.
14h50 S. Humbert (Univ. Maryland) : Wide-Field Integration of Optic Flow for Corridor Navigation on a Micro Helicopter.
15h10 J.C. Zufferey (EPFL, Lausanne) : Optic flow to control small UAVs.
15h30 R. Lozano (Compiègne Univ., France) : Real-time stabilization of an Eight-Rotor UAV using Optical flow.
15h50 R. Mahony (ANU, Australia) : Analysis of the closed-loop flight dynamics of aerial vehicles given proportional feedback of optic flow measurements.
16h10 Coffee Break


Landing, Docking and Tracking (Chair : J. C. Zufferey)


16h30 L. Matthies (JPL, USA) : Vision Systems for Planetary Landers.
16h50 Y. Watanabe (ONERA, France) : Research Perspectives in UAV Visual Target Tracking in Uncertain Environments.
17h10 Y. Measson (CEA-LIST, France) : Survey of CEA LIST activities in the field of UAV.
17h30 E. Baird (Lund Univ., Sweden) : A visual strategy for landing on a vertical surface.
17h50 S. Krupinski (Cybernetix, France) : Localisation and guidance in the AUV docking problem.
18h10
Conclusion (S. Viollet and F. Ruffier)