SEMINAR ON AUTONOMOUS AIR VEHICLES – TECHNOLOGIES & APPLICATIONS

AAV2022

 

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About AAV Seminar

Seminar on Autonomous Air Vehicles-Technologies & Applications is an annual event jointly conducted by Design Division of Aeronautical Society of India and Aeronautical Development Establishment (DRDO), Bangalore for UAV community to share their knowledge and expertise. This annual event focuses on technology developments & end applications related to UAVs for both civil and military domains. This year, the event will be conducted in hybrid mode with in-person and online participation.

Areas of Focus
  • Autonomous Technology for UAVs
  • UAV Application and Technology Development
  • Digital Technology for UAV Design and Development
  • Al Technology for UAV Development
Event Date

6th& 7th January 2022

Committee

Patrons
Dr. G Satheesh Reddy - Secretary DD(R&D) and Chairman-DROO
Dr. Tessy Thomas - DG (AERO), DRDO
Ms. J. Manjula - DG (ECS), DRDO

Advisory Committee
Dr. Kota Harinarayana, SERB Distinguished fellow, CSIR-NAL & Chairman, DD-AeSI
Dr. BN Suresh, Chancellor, IIST, SRO-HQ
Dr. Girish Deodhare, DG (ADA)
Shri Jitendra Jadhav, Director, CSIR -NAL
Dr, M Sankaran, Director, URSC, ISRO
Shri. MZ Siddique, Director, GTRE & CABS
Dr. K Maheswara Reddy, Director, DLRL
Shri. P Radhakrishna, Director, LRDE
Shri. APVS Prasad, CE-CEMILAC
Dr. Subrata Rakshit, Director, CAIR

Organizing Committee
Chairman
Dr. S. Venugopal
OS & Director, ADE

Co-Chairman
Shri V Ashok Rangan
Sc-H & Associate Director, ADE

Co-Chairman
Shri Y Dilip
Sc-H & Associate Director, ADE

Convener
Shri R Chandrasekaran,
Sc-G , ADE

Co-convener
Shri A Vadivelan,
Sc-F, ADE

Treasurer
Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Sc-E & Hon. Treasurer, DD-AeSI

Members
Shri. Satpal Singh Tomar, Sc-F, ADE
Shri. Binesh Kumar K,Sc-F, ADE
Dr. Tarun Uppal, Sc-F, ADE
Ms. Ruchi Srivastava, , Sc-F, ADE
Shri P Salim, Sc-F, ADE
Shri Saugata Tribedi, Sc-F, ADE
Shri Manu Jain, Sc-F, ADE
Ms. Chandreyi S Ghosh, Sc-F, ADE
Ms. Seema Parmar, Sc-F, ADE
Shri B Saravanan, Sc-E, ADE
Shri Vibhor Mahule, Sc-E, ADE
Dr. Anil Kulhare, Sc-E, ADE
Shri Uthirabalan R, Sc-E, ADE
Lt Col Nagaraj M, ADE

Venue

Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE),
Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO),
Min. of Defence, Govt. of India,
New Thippasandra Post, Bangalore — 560075

Session Plan

AAV-2022- SESSION SUMMARY

Session

Date

Time

THEME

Chairman

1

6 Jan 2022

8:30 to 9:30

Registration

 

2

6 Jan 2022

9:30 to 10:45

Inaugural session & Keynote address

 

3

6 Jan 2022

11:15 to 12:55

Autonomous Technologies for UAV

Mr Vasanth Sastry, Sc G, ADE

4

6 Jan 2022

13:55 to 15:35

Technology, Applications and concept of

operation of UAVs

Ms Sudha Rani, Sc G, ADE

5

6 Jan 2022

16:00 – 18:05

UAV Technology Development

Mr Subramanian V, Sc G, ADE

6

7 Jan 2022

9:30 to 11:15

UAV Design and Development

Mr Manjunath, Sc G, ADE

7

7 Jan 2022

11:30 to 13:10

Future Technologies

Ms Veena Dixit, Sc G , ADE

8

7 Jan 2022

14:10 – 15:50

UAV application and Digital Technology for

UAV Development

Ms Asha Garg, Sc G, ADE

9

7 Jan 2022

15:50 –16:45

Panel Discussion & Concluding session

 

AAV-2022- Inaugural Function

09:30

Invocation & Lamp Lighting

09:40

Welcome Address & Overview of Seminar

 

Shri R. Chandrasekaran, Sc ’G’ & Convener AAV-2022

09:45

Address by Dr Kota Harinaraya, Chairman, DD-AeSI

09:50

Address by Shri Y Dilip, OS & Director, ADE

09:55

Address by Chief Guest

 

Dr Tessy Thomas , DS & Director General (Aeronautical Systems)

10:05

Key note address by Prof M Vidyasagar

 

Reinforcement Learning for path planning in autonomous Vehicles

10:35

Vote of Thanks by Vadivelan, Sc-F & Co-Convener AAV-2022

10:40

High Tea

AAV-2022- TECHNICAL SESSIONS

Date : 06 Jan 2022 Time : 09:30-18:05 Hrs

Session

Time (in hrs)

Speaker(s)

Topic/Subject

Online /

In-person

Session-01: Inaugural session

9:30 to 10:45

Inaugural function

 

In-person

10:05 to 10:35

Prof. M Vidya Sagar, IITG

Reinforcement Learning for autonomous Vehicles

Online

 

10:45 – 11:15

High Tea

 

 

Session-02: Autonomous Technologies for UAV

11:15 to 11:40

Ms Veena Dixit, Sc ‘G’ ADE

Flight Control Systems for Autonomous flight of UAV

In-person

11:40 to 12:05

Dr Arshad Jamal, Sc F, CAIR

Applications of Small

Intelligent Unmanned Aerial System

In-person

12:05 to 12:30

Dr. Amit Kumar Tripathi Dr. Niranjan Kumar Sura &

Dr Amitabh Saraf

Approach to Development of Automatic Takeoff and Landing (ATOL) Technologies for Fighter

Aircraft

In-person

12:30 to 12:55

Ms Sharmila, Sc E, ADE

Autonomous Landing of MALE UAV

In-person

 

12:55 to 13:55

Lunch

 

 

Session-03 Technology, Applications and concept of operation of UAVs

13:55 to 14:20

Gp Capt Arun Malhotra,

GD Ops IAF PMT, ADA

Concept of operation of

Autonomous Vehicles

In-person

14:20 to 14:45

Dr. Devanandham Henry

The value of adopting a Systems Engineering approach during UAV

design and development

In-person

 

14:45 to 15:10

Prof. Santosh Ansumali, JNCASR

Aerodynamic Simulation of unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Lattice Boltzmann

method.

In-person

15:10 to 15:35

Prof Sathya Narayana

Chakravarthy, IITM

Applications and Design

features of eVTOL aircraft

Online

 

15:35 to 16:00

Tea

 

 

Session-04: UAV Technology Development

16:00 – 16:25

Dr L Venkata Krishnan, NAL

The CSIR-High Altitude Aircraft Program

Online

16:25 – 16:50

Mr Sameer Joshi, Newspace Research &

Technologies

Swarm UAVs - Gamechangers over future

battlefield

In-person

16:50 – 17:15

Mr. Pritam Ashutosh, Edall Systems

Development of High-

Altitude VTOL Cargo Drone

In-person

17:15 – 17:40

David W Casbeer

Control and Optimization as a Foundation for Multi- UAV Coordination

Online

17:40-18:05

Dr Rajneesh K Singh

Role of high-fidelity flight simulators for UAV autonomy development

Online

AAV-2022- TECHNICAL SESSIONS

Date : 07 Jan 2022 Time : 09:30- 17:00 Hrs

Session

Time (in hrs)

Speaker

Topic/Subject

Online /

In-person

Session-05: UAV Design and Development

9:30 to 10:00

Dr S Venugopal, Director, ADE

Autonomous Aerial Vehicles-

Development Perspective for Present and Future

In-person

10:00 to 10:25

Prof Abhishek, IIT, Kanpur

Design and Autonomy Aspects of a Small-Scale Unmanned

Compound Helicopter

Online

10:25 to 10:50

Prof RK Pant, IIT

Bombay

Design of Autonomous Lighter-

than-Air systems

Online

10:50 to 11:15

Shri K Selvaraj, Sc G ADE

Wing Design Technology for HALE UAVs

In-person

 

11:15 to 11:30

Tea

 

 

Session-06: Future Technologies

11:30 to 11:55

Shri Jagannath Naik Dir, CHESS

Anti-Drone System and Technology in future warfare: Implementation, Challenges and

Prospectives

Online

11:55 to 12:20

Shri Krishan Lal, DEAL

Datalink Technologies: Present

and future

Online

12:20 to 12:45

Prof P Raja Lakshmi,

IIT Hyderabad

Lidar based aerial Navigation

systems

Online

12:45 – 13:10

Dr L Ravi Kumar, MSG, URSC, ISRO

Swarm UAV cooperative decentralized control with obstacle avoidance

Online

 

13:10 to 14:10

Lunch

 

 

Session-07: UAV application and Digital Technology for

UAV Development

14:10 – 14:35

Cmde. TV Sunil,

Commodore (Naval Air Staff)

UAV and UCAV requirements

and applications from Naval Perspective

Online

14:35 to 15:00

Lt. Col Arun Sharma,

GS01, Aviation 10

UAV requirements from Army

perspective

Online

15:00 –15:25

Kiran Jacob & Umashankar G

Accelerating UAV development through Model-based & Data-

Driven engineering

In-person

15:25 –15:50

Mr. Amit Agarwal, Ansys

Accelerating UAV product development and operations with Digital technology.

Online

Session-08 Panel Discussion & Concluding session

15:50 –16:45

Panel Discussion

  • Synergy between Design, Production and User agency to realize UAV
  • Technology areas UAV developers have to focus to increase the autonomy level of UAV

Concluding session

Felicitation of Sponsors

 

16:45 – 17:00

Tea & Snacks

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion & Concluding session

Moderator

Dr Kota Harinarayana, SERB Distinguished fellow, CSIR-NAL &

Chairman, DD-AeSI

Members

  1. Vice Adm. Raman Puri, PVSM, AVSM, VSM
  2. Prof Sudhakar, IITB (Retd)
  3. Dr Subrata Rakshit, OS & Director CAIR
  4. Shri Y Dilip, OS& Director, ADE
  5. Dr Ravi Kiran, Director Defence and Aerospace, Dassault Systems
  6. Gp Capt Modak, PMT, ADE
  7. Shri Laxmesh BH, VP & Head-Missiles & Aerospace Business – L&T Defence

Theme

  1. Synergy between Design, Production and User agency to realize UAV
  2. Technology areas UAV developers have to focus to increase the autonomy level of UAV

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