IMAV 2011 - International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition - 12-15 September
Summer edition — 't Harde, the Netherlands
Program

 

 

Program overview (see details below)
Time Day
  Mon. 12 Sept. Tue. 13 Sept. Wed.14 Sept. Thu. 15 Sept.
8:00 Registration team prep.   team prep.
8:45 Opening and welcome      
9:00

Keynote speech 1

Indoor competition  Keynote speech 3 Outdoor competitions 
10:00 coffee break   coffee break  
10:30

Session 1:

Flapping wings 1

 

Session 4:

Control

 
12:00 lunch break   lunch break  
13:00

Session 2:

Design and Aerodynamics 1

 

Session 5:

Flapping wings 2

Design and Aerodynamics 2

 
14:30 coffee break   coffee break  
15:00

Session 3:

autonomous flight

   Poster session and static demo  
16:30 coffee break      
17:00 Keynote speech 2      
18:00     Social Event  Awards/Ceremony 
19:00   Conference dinner    End 


Note:

1) On Monday outdoor teams will have designated slots to practice for the outdoor competition

2) On Wednesday indoor teams will have designated slots to practice for the indoor competitions

  

Keynote speakers
 
Keynote speech 1
Autonomous 3-D Flight and Cooperative Control of Multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles
Prof. Nathan Michael
University of Pennsylvania (USA)
 
Keynote speech 2
Micro Air Vehicle design
Dr. Mark Reeder
Air Force Institute of Technology (USA)
 
Keynote speech 3
Insect-inspired optic flow sensors and autopilots for MAV flight control
Prof. Nicolas Franceschini
Biorobotics Lab, Institute of Movement Science, CNRS and University of the Mediterranean, France
 
 
Oral paper presentations
 
Session 1: flapping wings 1
Paper 1: Wing flexibility effects in clap-and-fling
M. Percin, Y. Hu, B.W.van Oudheusden, B. Remes and F.Scarano
 
Paper 2: Dynamic behaviors of a vortex ring on a butterfly and a small flapping robot
M. Fuchiwaki, T. Kuroki, K. Tanaka, and T. Tabata
 
Paper 3: Analysis of tail effects in flapping flight
W.B Tay, H. Bijl, and B.W. van Oudheusden 
 
Session 2: Design & Aerodynamics 1
Paper 4: Application of electro-active materials to a coaxial-rotor NAV
C. Thipyopas, A.B. Sun, E. Bernard and J.-M. Moschetta
 
Paper 5: Numerical investigation of disc-wing MAV with propeller in a wing slot
N. D. Ageev
 
Paper 6: An engineering development of a novel hexrotor vehicle for 3D applications
D. Langkamp, G. Roberts, A. Scillitoe, I. Lunnon, A. Llopis-Pascual, J. Zamecnik, S. Proctor, M. Rodriguez-Frias, M. Turner, A. Lanzon and W. Crowther
 
Session 3: Autonomous Flight

 

Paper 7: Closing the gap between simulation and reality in the sensor and motion models of an autonomous AR. Drone
Arnoud Visser, Nick Dijkshoorn, Martijn van der Veen and Robrecht Jurriaans
 
Paper 8: PLASE : A novel planar surface extraction method for the autonomous navigation of micro-air vehicle
Rafid Siddiqui, Mohammad Havaei, Siamak Khatibi, Craig Lindley
 
Paper 9: BioMAV: bio-inspired intelligence for autonomous flight
Paul K. Gerke, Jurriaan Langevoort, Sjoerd Lagarde, Laurie Bax, Tijl Grootswagers, Robert-Jan Drenth, Vincent Slieker, Louis Vuurpijl, Pim Haselager, Ida Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, Martijn Otterlo, and Guido de Croon
 
Session 4: Control
Paper 10: Practical aspects of trirotor MAV development
Andrzej Ryś, Roman Czyba, Grzegorz Szafrański 
 
Paper 11: Different approaches of PID control UAV type quadrotor
G. Szafranski, R. Czyba
 
Paper 12: Equilibrium transition study for a hybrid MAV
M. Itasse, and J.M. Moschetta, Y. Ameho, and R. Carr
 
Session 5: Flapping wings 2 & Design and Aerodynamics 2
Paper 13: Vortex-lift modeling provides reliable force predictions for flapping-wing micro air vehicles
W. Thielicke, A.B. Kesel and E.J. Stamhuis
 
Paper 14: Aerodynamic analysis of the wing flexibility and the clap-and-peel motion of the hovering DelFly II
T. Gillebaart, A.H. van Zuijlen, and H. Bijl
 
Paper 15: Aerodynamics study of fixed-wing MAV: Wind tunnel and flight test
C. Thipyopas and N. Intaratep
 
Poster presentations
 
Poster session:
Paper 16: One useful propeller mathematical model for MAV
S.V. Serokhvostov and T. E. Churkina
 
Paper 17: Transient analysis of NYLON 6/6 for a thins shell structure by FEM
H.R. Montazer Hojjat
 
Paper 18: Inverse dynamics approach to adaptive damage-tolerant control for unmanned aerial vehicles
Alexey Kondratiev and Yury Tiumentsev
 
Paper 19: Design approach for selection of wing airfoil with regard to micro-UAVs
Vladimir Brusov and Vladimir Petruchik
 
Paper 20: Flight data acquisition system for small unmanned aerial vehicles
Vladimir Brusov, Józef Grzybowski, and Vladimir Petruchik
 
Paper 21: An architecture with integrated image processing for autonomous micro aerial vehicles
Christian Dernehl, Dominik Franke, Hilal Diab, Stefan Kowalewski