2018 Conference Schedule

Bring your tools to the sky with DJI Payload SDK
DJI
GERMANY

The Future of Commercial Drone Customisation: DJI’s new Payload SDK enables non-DJI cameras, sensors, and payloads such as air-to-ground communication tools and devices to be mounted and integrated directly into DJI’s Matrice 200 Series drones. By opening this layer of DJI’s core technology to the commercial drone ecosystem, any manufacturer, developer or researcher can create a drone that is customised for a specific purpose or industry.

Enabling BVLOS flights through Cellular Connectivity
Nokia Bell Labs
DENMARK

BVLOS flights enable many exciting new use cases for drones, but require a reliable command and control (C2) link. C2 over cellular networks is an obvious way forward due to the almost ubiquitous coverage. From research conducted in the SESAR DroC2om project, we will show the differences between communication to drones and ground users based on measurements with drones flying in VLL air space, and show that interference mitigation techniques such as interference coordination, beamsteering and hybrid access may well lead to a reliable C2 link even in highly loaded cellular networks.

Push the boundaries of what drones can do
ETH Zurich
SWITZERLAND

We promote the concept of omnidirectional drones, which means that position and orientation of the drone are completely independent. Therefore, the Voliro drones can fly horizontally, vertically, upside-down and in any orientation in between, while generating forces in all directions. This allows it to apply a constant contact force on objects, independent of the drone's orientation. With this unique capability, Voliro platforms can conduct physical interaction with the environment in a safe and reliable manner. Currently on the market there are many drones that can perform remote sensing tasks, such as mapping, inspection and videography. However, none of them can assist in tasks that require physical contact. This is where Voliro's "Hand in the sky" becomes important by providing solutions in applications where physical interaction using drones is needed.

1000 Payloads/1000 Operations
DRONETOOLS
ESPAÑA

In the drone industry the most important device for the success of the operation is the payload. As manufacturer, Dronetools has develop few different payloads for a variety applications, from typical visual cameras for rescue or border control to payloads for environmental measurements, or payloads for spry solid or liquid for treatments applications. On the presentation we´ll show the experience gained on the develop of the payloads for our customers and pictures and example of use of those payloads.

Unleashing the power of collaborative drones
Insyab Wireless Limited
UAE

Let’s face reality … Moore’s Law is indeed coming to a close. As such, it seems inevitable that there will be soon a gap in terms of the computational horsepower available for machine learning and computer vision applications, especially those running at the edge. Such a limiting factor will particularly impact unmanned robotic systems deployed in mission-critical operations (e.g. law enforcement, public safety, security). The wisest route to avoid falling into the aforementioned gap is to resort to distributed processing. It is not so challenging to portray the criticality of low latency and robust communications for pushing the envelope of distributed processing. In this talk, we will outline the key wireless elements required for unleashing the power of distributed processing, low-latency communications in particular. We will also discuss how incumbent over-the-counter technologies fall short of meeting the objectives, especially as the number of collaborating robotic nodes grows.