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After its last edition in Lisbon in 2015, the Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2019) will be held at the School of Engineering of the Porto Polytechnic (Portugal). This event shows in every edition all the new advances in aerial robotics research produced inside the Iberian Peninsula. Despite this fact contributions from another countries are accepted.

The previous editions of ROBOT were held in Madrid (2013), Lisbon (2015) and Seville (2017). GRIFFIN will be disseminated in the following accepted papers:

• A. Gómez Eguíluz, J. L. Paneque, J.R. Martínez-de Dios and A. Ollero: “Online detection and tracking of pipes during UAV flight in industrial environments”.

• J. P. Rodríguez-Gómez and A. Gómez Eguíluz and J. R. Martínez-de Dios and A. Ollero: “ROSS-LAN: RObotic Sensing Simulation scheme for bioinspired robotic bird Landing”.

• A. E. Gómez Tamm, P. Ramón Soria, B. C. Arrúe.«TPC muscle tensors: Theoretical analysis and potential applications in aerial robotic systems.» Fourth Iberian Robotics Forum (ROBOT 2019). Porto, Portugal. November 2019.

Also, ROBOT 2019 will count on a special session organised by GRVC – USE professors Guillermo Heredia and Begoña Arrúe entitled “Aerial Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance”, which will address all the applications of aerial robotics technologies and how they could improve the inspection and maintenance tasks. This include the design and control of aerial manipulators, robot localisation and mapping, planning for exploration and multi-robot systems.

In 2020 the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles will be held for first time outside of the US, in practice in Athens (Greece). In this conference GRIFFIN issues will be adresses as in 2019 ICUAS in Atlanta.

These conferences approaches the issues of integration of manned-unmanned aviation into the national airspace, legal, ethical and privacy issues, regulations, benefits of unmanned aviation to society, UAS/RPAS design for safety, reliability and resilience, and technology standards.  Every year many groups including funding agencies, academia and industry assist to ICUAS to discuss issues related to unmanned aircraft systems and their applications.

Important dates

February 14, 2020:  Full Papers/ Invited Papers/Tutorial Proposals Due

April 15, 2020: Acceptance/Rejection Notification

May 8, 2020: Final, Camera Ready Papers; Early Registration Deadline

Find out more information about the call for papers at: http://www.uasconferences.com/2020_icuas/call-for-papers/

Also, you may find out more information about the conference in the ICUAS’ main page: http://www.uasconferences.com/2020_icuas/

This Thursday June 13th the GRIFFIN project was disseminated in its first paper «A simple Model for Gliding and Low.Amplitude Flapping Flight of a Bio-Inspired UAV» during the International Conference on Unmmaned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). The paper was presented by the GRVC researcher Antonio Martín Alcántara and it showed how the first prototype developed inside the project works.

The ICUAS conferences are celebrated every year in the United States. This year the event is held in Atlanta (Georgia). This event is an important yearly date for the experts and researchers in UAVs.

On May 23rd the ICRA 2019 workshop “The Future of Aerial Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities” was held in Montréal, Canada. During this event experts from several institutions and enterprises as University of Zagreb (LARICS), EPFL or DJI analysed the future evolution of the UAVs applications as well as issues like compliance and autonomy in aerial manipulation or the morphology for Aerial Robotics.

This workshop counted with the presence of the ERC Advanced grantee Anibal Ollero, who showed to assistants how the GRIFFIN ornithopters will work, fly and perch on curved surfaces.