SEMINAR ON AUTONOMOUS AIR VEHICLES – TECHNOLOGIES & APPLICATIONS
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Located at Science city of India Bangalore, ADE is a system establishment of DRDO meeting needs of Indian armed forces in the field of military aviation with in-house development of state-of-the-art systems and technologies.
AeSI is principal Society in India serving professions in areas of aeronautics, aerospace and aviation. Its stated primary purpose is to "advance sciences, engineering, technology and management of aerospace, aeronautics and aviation and to foster & promote professionalism of those engaged in these pursuits". Design division is devoted to offer a platform for the designers to meet & share knowledge.
Seminar on Autonomous Air Vehicles- Technologies & Applications is an annual event jointly conducted by Design Division of The Aeronautical Society of India and Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), DRDO, Bangalore. This annual event focuses on technology developments & end applications related to UAVs for both civil and military domains. The event has master classes on day-1 followed by invited talks by eminent speakers on next 2 days.
- Swarm Robotics
- Distributed Control
- Group Co-ordination
- Navigation/Path Planning
- Fault Tolerance and Reconfiguration
- Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring
- Sense and Avoid
- Automatic Take-off and Landing
- Multi Sensor Data Fusion
- Data link and Autonomous Systems
Dr. Vijay Kumar – Professor at University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. Rakesh Kumar – SRI International, USA
Dr. S. Venugopal – Director, ADE
8th, 9th & 10th January 2020
Venue : Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), Sameekhsa Auditorium,Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Suranjan Das Road, Bangalore - 560075
| Duration | Event | By/Venue | Affiliation | Topic |
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| 8:00 am to 9:00 am | Registration & light refreshment | Sameeksha | ||
| 9:00 am to 10:00 am | Inaugration | Sameeksha | ||
| 10:00 am to 10:30 am | high Tea | Sameeksha | ||
| 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Master class | Prof. Abhishek | IIT Kanpur | Role of aerodynamics and flight dynamics in design of innovative high efficiency VTOL systems |
| 12:00 am to 1:30 pm | Master class | Dr. Vijay Patel | ADA | Automatic take-off and landing |
| 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm | Lunch break | |||
| 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Master class | Prof. Vijay Kumar | University of Pennsylvania | Swarm of small, flying robots |
| 4:00 pm to 4:30 am | Tea Break | Sameeksha | ||
| 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm | Master class | Prof. Suresh Sundaram | IISc | Recent developments in sense and avoid technology for UAV |
| Duration | Event | By/Venue | Affiliation | Topic |
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| 9:00 am to 9:45 am | Keynote | Prof. Vijay Kumar | University of Pennsylvania | Opportunities and challenges for autonomy in micro aerial vehicles |
| Session 1 :: Chairman : Prof. K Sudhakar, Ex- Professor IIT Bombay | ||||
| 9:45 am to 10:15 am | Invited | AVM N Tiwari VM | Indian Air Force | Requirements for UCAV |
| 10:15 am to 10:45 am | Tea Break | |||
| 10:45 am to 11:15 am | Invited | Prof Hemendra Arya | IIT Bombay | Hardware in Loop simulation for swarms |
| 11:15 am to 11:45 am | Invited | Prof. Mangal Kothari | IIT Kanpur | Autonomous control of a biplane-quadrotor tail sitter UAV |
| 11:45 am to 12:15 pm | Invited | Prof. Bharath Govindrajan | IIT Madras | Conceptual design of VTOL platforms for next generation air vehicles |
| 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm | Lunch break | |||
| 1:15 pm to 2:00 pm | Keynote | Dr. Rakesh Kumar | SRI international | Metrics and semantics navigation and mapping of UAVs |
| Session 2 :: Chairman : Dr. B. N. Suresh, Chancellor IIST | ||||
| 2:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Invited | Prof. Gopal Krishna Patra | CSIR-4PI | Security and privacy concerns of a fleets of drones: potential solution |
| 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm | Invited | Dr. S Raja | NAL | VTOL technologies for UAV and challenges |
| 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Tea Break | |||
| 4:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Invited | Dr. Yogananda Jeppu | M/s Honeywell | Safety critical fault tolerant control-develop, test & certify |
| 4:30 pm to 5:00 pm | Invited | Dr. Laveen/ Harish Jayaraj | M/s Collins aerospace | Multi-application radio frequency beacon for unmanned vehicle |
| Duration | Event | By/Venue | Affiliation | Topic |
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| 9:00 am to 9:45 am | Keynote | Dr. S Venugopal | ADE | Roadmap and technologies for futuristic UAS development at ADE |
| Session 3 :: Chairman : Shri. Shyam Chetty, Ex-Dir. NAL | ||||
| 9:45 am to 10:15 am | Invited | Shri Rahul Ramanna | M/s GAPL | UAV for societal applications |
| 10:15 am to 10:45 am | Invited | Prof K Senthil Kumar | MIT, Chennai | Case study: Indian made mini UAVs for disaster and societal applications |
| 10:45 am to 11:15 am | Tea Break | |||
| 11:15 am to 11:45 am | Invited | Shri V T Bhaskar | VSSC | RLV development |
| 11:45 am to 12:15 pm | Invited | Mr Falk Sachs | DLR, Germany | Design and testing of a new cargo drone configuration |
| 12:15 pm to 12:45 pm | Invited | Mr Martin Laubner | DLR, Germany | Challenges in operating an experimental 500 kg cargo UAS |
| 12:45 pm to 1:15 pm | Invited | Shri Sameer Joshi | M/s Newspace technologies | Manned unmanned teaming (MUM-T) command of skies in the coming decades |
| 1:15 pm to 2:00 pm | Lunch break | |||
| 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Panel discussion | Achieving Self Reliance in Autonomous Air Vehicles | ||
| Closing remarks by Convenor | ||||
Patrons
Dr. VK Saraswat -Member, NITI Aayog
Dr. G Satheesh Reddy - Chairman, DRDO
Dr. K Sivan - Chairman, ISRO
Advisory Committee
Dr. Tessy Thomas, DG, Aero (DRDO)
Smt. J Manjula, DG, ECS
Dr. S. Venugopal, Director, ADE
Dr. BN Suresh, Chancellor, IIST, ISRO-HQ
Dr. Girish Deodhare, PGD(CA) &Director-ADA
Shri Jitendra Jadhav, Director, CSIR -NAL
Dr. P Kunhi krishnan, Director, URSC, ISRO
Shri APVS Prasad, CE, CEMILAC
Dr. UK Singh, Director,CAIR
Shri MZ Siddique, Director, GTRE
Shri SS Nagaraj, Director, LRDE
Organizing Committee
Chairman
Dr. S. Venugopal
OS & Director, ADE
Co-Chairman
Dr. Kota Harinarayana
SERB Distinguished Fellow, CSIR-NAL & Chairman, DD-AeSI
Convener
Shri Y Dilip
Sc-H & Associate Director, ADE
Co-convener
Shri Kishan Singh Chowhan
Sc-F, ADA & Off. Hon. Secretary, DD-AeSI
Treasurer
Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Sc-E & Hon. Treasurer, DD-AeSI
Members
Dr. Vidyadhar Mudkavi, Head, CSIR 4PI
Dr. Abhay Pashilkar, PGD (Civil Aircraft), NAL
Dr. Vijay Patel, GD, ADA
Dr. Hemendra Arya, Professor, IIT Bombay
Dr. Abhishek, Associate Professor, IIT Kanpur
Dr. Suresh Sundaram, Associate Professor, IISc-B’lore
Shri Abhishek Burman, CEO, General Aeronautics
Shri. Satpal Singh Tomar, Sc F, ADE
Dr. Tarun Uppal, Sc F, ADE
Shri Sufal Chandra Swar Sc E, ADE
Shri Uthirabalan R, Sc D, ADE
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Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE)
Defence Research and Development Organisation
Ministry of Defence, GoI, Suranjan Das Road,
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Email: adeaav2020@gmail.com
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