Programme
Monday, 14 September 2015
- 10:00 Practice Day
Location: “Floriansdorf Aachen” Septfontainesweg 52074 Aachen 50.788812°N, 6.046862°E
- 16:30 End of Practice Day
- 19:00 Registration
Location: RWTH SuperC Templergraben 57 52062 Aachen
- 20:00 End of Registration
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
| Location: | RWTH SuperC | |||
| Templergraben 57 | ||||
| 52062 Aachen |
- 08.00
Registration - 09.00
Opening Address
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Moormann, RWTH Aachen, Conference Chairman
Dr. Margrethe Schmeer, Mayor of Aachen
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ernst Schmachtenberg, Rector of RWTH Aachen University - 09:30
Keynote
Drones in our Airspace – Pilots Views on Integration
Capt. Thomas Mildenberger, UAS Expert, German Air Pilots’ Association
(Vereinigung Cockpit e.V.) - 10.00 Coffee Break
Locations:
| Sessions with the indicator "A" and "B" | Sessions with the indicator "C" |
|---|---|
| Super C, Ford/Generali-Hall | Sportpark Kohlscheid |
| Templergraben 57 | Kaiserstraße 96 |
| 52062 Aachen | 52134 Herzogenrath |
Session 1 A - Scientific Flight Mechanics and Transition
- 10.30
Design and control of an unmanned aerial vehicle for autonomous parcel delivery with transition from vertical take-off to forward flight
Bart Theys, KU Leuven, Belgium
Wind Tunnel Investigation of Stationary Straight-Lined Flight of Tiltwings Considering Vertical Airspeeds
Carsten Meyer, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Passively stable flapping flight from hover to fast forward through shift in wing position
Andries Koopmans, TU Delft, The Netherlands - 12.00 Lunch
Session 2A - Scientific Navigation and Control
- 13:00
Demonstration of automatic cooperative synchronization of heterogeneous systems by landing a small scale aircraft on a moving ground vehicle
Stefan Rofalski, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Improvement of the GNSS Solution for Advanced RPAS Applications Utilizing PPP, RTK or Sensor Integration
Markus Dorn, TU Graz, Austria
Navigation of micro air vehicles with inconsistent GPS guidance and online path planning
Cui Jinqiang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Session 2B - Technical Propulsion
(parallel session to 2A)
- 13:00
Sawtooth Trailing Edge Propeller's Noise Reduction for Multi-Rotor UAV Applications
Chinnapat Thipyopas, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
Efficient BLDC controller for critical UAV applications
Pavel Kirienko, Zubax Robotics, Stupino, Russia - 14:30 Coffee
Session 3A - Scientific Flapping Wing Mechanics
- 14:45
Experimental Studies of an Inertial-Elastic Rotating Wing Model in Air and Vacuum
Mark Jankauski, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Design and Aerodynamic Measurements of Bio-inspired Flexile Wing for Flapping Wing MAV
Van Tien Truong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Force generation and wing deformation characteristics of the 'DelFly II' MAV in hovering flight conditions
Mustafa Percin, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Session 3B - Technical Simulation and Evaluation
(parallel session to 3A)
- 14:45
Towards Autonomous MAV Soaring in Cities: CFD Simulation, EFD Measurement and Flight Trials
Mohamed Abdulghani, RMIT University, Bundoora, Australia
An Evaluation of Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aircraft as Flying Wind Sensors
Mohamed Abdulghani, RMIT University, Bundoora, Australia
Quadrotor UAV aerodynamic model identification using indoor flight experiment and feasibility of UAV as wind gust sensor
Laurent Planckaert; ONERA, Lille, France
- 16:15 Coffee
Session 4A - Scientific Application
- 16:30
Self-Activated Movable Flaps on Low Aspect Ratio Wings at Low Reynolds Numbers
Arivoli Durai, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India
Real-time Onboard Map Stitching for UAV Surveillance in IMAV 2014
Dong Xiangxu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Experimental Wind Field Estimation and Aircraft Identification
Murat Bronz, ENAC, Toulouse, France
Session 4B - Technical Guidance and Conceptual Design
(parallel session to 4A)
- 16:30
Preliminary Design Estimation of the V/STOL Airplane Performance
Murat Bronz, ENAC, Toulouse, France
Development of Flight Control for Flapping Wing MAV
Woei-leong Chan, University of Glasgow, Singapore
Poster Session: 16:30 - 18:00 / Location Super C
- Use of bird feather in Micro Air vehicle
Rishabh Chourasia, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India - LQG controller and Optimal Estimation-Kalman Filter Design applied for pitch Aircraft
Labane Chrif, University of Saida, Algeria - Piezoelectric Dragonfly MAV
Rejish Lal Johnson, Hindustan University, Tamil Nadu, India - Optimized method in sizing of Flapping Wing
Mahdi Kaveh, Isfahan, Iran - EMC+ Team Technical Paper
Sasan Jahanagiripashaki, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran - Investigation of Multicopter Propellers Interference in View of Its Influence on Power Consumption
Sergey Serokhvostov, MIPT DAFE, Zhukovsky, Russia - Flight simulation of multirotor systems on MRS software
Kamil Zaripov, MIPT DAFE, Zhukovsky, Russia
- 18:00 Welcome Reception and Team Presentation
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
- 09:00 Outdoor Competion
Location: "Floriansdorf Aachen" Bus Transfer: 08:30 From Stop Septfontainesweg "Technische Hochschule" 52074 Aachen 50.788812°N, 6.046862°E 17:15 Return trip
- 17:00 End of Outdoor Competition
Thursday, 17 September 2015
- 09:00 Indoor Competition
Location: Sportpark Kohlscheid Bus Transfer: 08:30 From Stop Kaiserstraße 96 "Technische Hochschule" 52134 Herzogenrath 50.830602°N, 6.083033°E 17:15 Return trip
- 12:30 Lunch
Session 5C - Scientific Structure
- 14:00
Proposition of design method and optimization of multirotors composite structures
Renaud Kiefer, INSA de Strasbourg, France
An Inventory of Structural Changes to Modify the Dynamic Response of Lightweight Compliant FWMAV Designs
Hugo Peters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Resonant Cantilever Wings for Monolithic MAVs
Matthew Minnick, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
- 15:30 Coffee
Session 6C - Scientific Autonomous Control
- 15:45
Integration of ANN and UAV for Aerial Inspection
Luiz Flavio Felizardo, Itajubá Federal University, Brasil
Optimal Linear Quadratic Consensus for High-Order Integral Dynamics: Quadrotors Formation Control Application
Alireza Mohamadifard, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- 19:00 Conference Dinner
Location: Soccer Arena "Tivoli" Clublounge 2 Krefelder Strasse 205 52070 Aachen 50.793346°N, 6.096175°E - Dinnerspeaker
Dr. Wolfgang Send, ANIPOP GbR, Göttingen, Germany - 23:00 End of Conference Dinner
Friday, 18 September 2015
| Location: | RWTH SuperC | |
| Templergraben 57 | ||
| 52062 Aachen |
- 08:30 Coffee Reception
Session 7A - Scientific Sense and Avoid
- 09:00
LiDAR Sensor for Unmanned Air Systems: Detailed Evaluation Regarding Subsequent Simulation for Precise Near-Field Navigation
Christian Eschmann, RWTH Aachen, Germany
An Effective Method for Autonomous Localization and Navigation in Unknown Indoor Environment using MAV
Swee King Phang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Field study of a 24 GHz FMCW radar system suitable todetect small-sized RPAS under 5 kg MTOW
Charles Ben, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Session 7B - Technical Flapping Wing Dynamics
(parallel session to 7A)
- 09:00
Numerical Investigation on the Propulsive Performance of Biplane Counter-flapping Wings
Shuanghou Deng, Delft, The Netherlands
Transient Effect of the Canonical Pitch-Up Wing Maneuver
Wee Beng Tay, University of Singapore, Singapore
- 10:30 Coffee
Session 8A - Scientific Bioinspired Flight Mechanics
- 10:45
Performance Test of a Hovering Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle with Double Wing Clap-and-Fling Mechanism
Quoc-Viet Nguyen, National University of Singapore, Singapore
An Experimental Study on Effect of Wing Geometry of Hummingbird-like Flapping Wing in the Hover
Yanghai Nan, Université de Bruxelles, Belgium
Investigation on Tailless Control of a FlappingWing MAV
Woei Leong Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Session 8B - Technical Navigation Sensors
(parallel session to 8A)
- 10:45
6D SLAM MAV using a rotating LiDAR
Markus Bobbe, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Smile Targets in Aerial Photogrammetry
Davide Cucci, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Twirre V2: Evolution of an architecture for automated mini-UAVs using interchangeable commodity components
Jaap van de Loosdrecht, NHL University of Applied Science, Leuwarden, The Netherlands
- 12:15 Lunch
Session 9A - Scientific Simulation and Control
- 13:15
Simulation Based Development of Micro Air Vehicles
Thomas Linkugel, Universität Tübingen, Germany
Lyapunov-Based Nonlinear Control and Real-Time Simulation of Quadrotors
Hsuan Chang, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Adaptive Control of Flapping-Wing Flying Robot
Aneesh Chand, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
- 14:15 Award Ceremony
- 16:00 End of IMAV 2015