Tuesday, 03 July 2012

Conference Registration

Conference Opening

Keynote Address

Session 1: Guidance, Navigation and Control

  • MAV Autopilot for commercial and research purposes
    Kirill Shilov, Grigory Lazurin, Department of Aeromechanics and Flight Engineering, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia

  • The Optimum Location of Pressure Taps over a Wing for Dynamic Control Inputs
    Sridhar Ravi, University Tuebingen, Germany, Matthew Marino, Simon Watkins, Jon Watmuff, Phred Petersen, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

  • Vision-Based Target Detection and Autonomous Target Approach Control for Unmanned MAVs
    Manuel Popp, Justus Seibold, Philipp Crocoll, Natalie Frietsch, Gert F. Trommer, KIT Karlsruhe, Germany

  • An integrated vision aided GPS/INS Navigation System for ultra-low-cost MAVs
    Felix Gathmann, Christian Dernehl, Dominik Franke, Stefan Kowalewski,     RWTH Aachen University, Germany

  • Autonomous navigation of a UAV based on multimodal integration
    Alexandre Ravet, Bertrand Vandeportaele, Simon Lacroix, LAAS, Gautier Hattenberger, ENAC, France

  • Integrated Control of Quadrotor Flight Dynamics with Complementary Compensator of System Uncertainties
    Aleksandar Rodić, Ivan Stojković, University of Belgrade, Serbia

  • Fault-tolerant Control Allocation for Multirotor Helicopters using Parametric Programming
    Thomas Schneider, Automonous System Lab., ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  • PID vs Fuzzy logic control for attitude stabilizing of miniature Quadrotor UAV
    O. Jamshidi Afarani, S.M. Rahavi , H. Vahid , M. Bagheri Rizi, Islamic Azad University, Khomainishahr, Iran

  • Moving towards a UAV flight with a dynamic inversion controller and a navigation filter
    Karl Kufieta, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

  • A ducted fan MAV anti-torque control system
    Moaad Yacoubi, Frank Buysschaert, Patrick Hendrick, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Session 2: Sensors

  • Novel Marker Based Tracking Method for Position and Attitude Control of MAVs
    Andreas. Masselli, A. Zell, University Tuebingen, Germany

  • Visual Identification and Tracking for Vertical and Horizontal Targets in the IMAV Competition
    Fu Changhong, Pascual Campoy, Jesús Pestana-Puerta, José Luis Sánchez López, Ignacio Mellado-Bataller,     Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

  • Multi Disciplinary Optimization in Design of MAVs for Videography
    Gaurav V. Tendolkar, K. Sudhakar, Hemendra Arya, Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Powai Mumbai, India     

Session 3: Fuselage and Propulsion Systems

  • Propulsive Analysis of High Performance Propellers for Multi-Mission MAVs
    Sutthichai Kaeosutthi, Adhum Tohwae-a-yee, Chinnapat Thipyopas, Kasetsart University, Thailand

  • Electric Propulsion System Optimization for a Specific Mission with Multiple Conditions
    Murat Bronz, Jean Marc Moschetta, ISAE, France, Gautier Hattenberger, ENAC, France

In the evening: Reception at Braunschweig in the old Townhall (Dornse) 

Wednesday, 04 July 2012

Outdoor Competition at Wilsche Glider Field

Thursday, 05 July 2012

Indoor Competition

Session 4: Aerodynamics

  • Pitch-plunging flat Wings in Experiments and Numerical Investigations
    Torste. J. Möller, Rolf Wokoeck, Ralf Radespiel, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
  • The Influence of Freestream Turbulence on the Transient Loads Experienced by an Airfoil at Low Reynolds Numbers
    Sridhar Ravi, University of Tuebingen, Germany, Simon Watkins, Jon Watmuff, Phred Petersen Matthew Marino, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
  • Aerodynamic Performance of Multi-Mission Morphing Wing MAV
    Aritad Choicharoon, Kwanchai Chinwicharnam, Chinnapat Thipyopas, Kasetsart University, Thailand
  • Numerical and Experimental Analysis of the Wing-propeller Interaction for a Tilt-Wing Micro Air Vehicle
    Maxime Itasse, Jean-Marc Moschetta, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Toulouse, France
  • The Vortex Growth on a Wall of Elastic Airfoils and Effect of Relative Angle of Attack
    Tomoki Kurinami, Masaki Fuchiwaki, Kazuhiro Tanaka Kyushu Institute of     Technology, Japan
  • Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Pitching and Plunging Airfoils in Hover
    Hazan Hizli, D. Funda Kurtulus, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
  • Plasma Flow Control on MAV Flying Wing Models
    Berkant. Göksel, C. N. Nayeri, R. Bannasch, F. Behrendt, I. Rechenberg,     C. O. Paschereit, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
  • Wake Reconstruction of Flapping-Wing MAV ‘DelFly II’ in Forward Flight
    M. Percin, H.E. Eisma, B.W. van Oudheusden, B. Remes , R. Ruijsink , C. de Wagter, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

In the Evening: Symposium Dinner

Friday, 06 July 2012

 Session 5: MAV Operation

  • Coactive Design for Human-MAV Team Navigation
    Matthew Johnson, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL, USA
  • City Topographies and Atmospheric Winds: Possibilities of Extending the Endurance of MAVs
    Simon Watkins, Kevin Massey, Ee Wei Lim, Raj. Ladani and K. C. Wong,     RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • A Visual Guided Quadrotor for IMAV 2012 Indoor Autonomy competition and Visual control of a quadrotor for the IMAV 2012 indoor dynamics competition
    Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Ignacio Mellado-Bataller, Jesus Pestana-Puerta,     Fu Changhong, Pascual Campoy, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Session 6: System Engineering

  • Design and Optimisation Applied to a Multifunctional Modular MAV System
    Cheng-Ming Kuo, Andreas Leber, Christian Boller, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
  • The Development of a MAV type Cyclogyro
    Tang Jiwei, Hu Yu, Du fan, Jiao jun, Ma Kaichao, Wang Gang, Chen Kaiyan,     Song Bifeng, Li Weiji, Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R.China, Ren Bin, Chengdu Jouav Automation Tech Co., Ltd, P.R.China
  • Direct Experimental Comparison of Flapping Wing and Fixed Wing Efficiency
    Nikita A. Pushchin, Sergey V. Serokhvostov, Moscow Institute of Physics and   Technology, Russia
  • Measuring and Analyzing the Birds Flight
    A. Friedl, Christian J. Kähler, Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany
  • State of Progress of the Gun Launched Micro Air Vehicle
    E. Roussel, P. Gnemmi, S. Changey et al., French-German Research Institut of Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis Cedex, France
  • Bio-Inspired Design of Micro Ornithopters with Emphasis on Locust Hindwings
    Ryan Randall, Rajeev Kumar, Sergey Shkarayev, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
  • Studies of Flight Kinematics of Ornithopters
    Garrett Lim, Sergey Shkarayev, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA     Zachary Goff, Philip Beran, Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, USA

  • A Novel System Architecture Utilising Parallel Processing for indoor Micro Aerial Vehicles
    Michael R. Woods, Yimin Xu, Wesley Dowling, Matthew Cork, Chen Qian, Deng Deng, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Final discussion and closing remarks

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