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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.

This year in the month of May the 3rd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics (ISAR) was held in Toronto, Canada. The head of GRVC Anibal Ollero is part of the organization committee and he delivered a plenary talk entitled “Aerial Robots with Manipulation Capabilities in Flight and Perched”, with the advances that in these moments are being developed inside the GRIFFIN project’s objectives.

Last year this event was held in Philadelphia, USA and count on the presence of group member Anibal Ollero and Arturo Torres, whom disseminated the AEROARMS, Multidrone and EUROC advances in their corresponding presentations “New Systems for Industrial Contact Inspection Pipes and Bridges by using Aerial Robotics Manipulators” and “UAL: an abstraction layer for unmanned vehicles”. The ISAR has become during this past three years in an important date for the UAVs experts in USA and Europe, thanks to the organisational skills of the New York University researcher Giuseppe Loianno. part of the IEEE TC on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Vehicles.