Notes

Interdrone 2015 Notes

Schedules

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Wednesday

9

  • Brian: Drone-Captured Crowd Analytics Through Deep Learning-Based Facial Emotion Recognition\
  • Dave: Super Session: UAV Developmental Test and Evaluation, Part I
  • Ross: Build Your Own Flying Drone
  • ??: Getting Your UAS Off the Ground - Legal Consideration in Forming UAS Companies and Raising Capital

11:15

  • Brian: Drone-Based 3D Mapping: The Major Data Revolution Happening Now
  • Dave: Super Session: UAV Developmental Test and Evaluation, Part II
  • Ross/Maurice: Obtaining Section 333 Exemptions and Overview of State Law Developments
  • ?? : Configuration and Tuning Tips with OpenPilot
  • ??: Introduction to Electric Power Systems

1:15

  • Ross/Maurice: Drones and the Law - What’s on the Horizon
  • Brian: Building Big Data Solutions for Drone Data: The New Age of Aerial Information
  • Dave: Super Session: UAV Developmental Test and Evaluation, Part III

2:30

  • Brian: Flying in Wind: State Estimation and Control for Small Drones, Part I
  • Dave/Maurice: Indoor UAS Inspections
  • Ross/Maurice: Panel: FAA Regulations: The Latest Outlook
  • ??: Controlling Autonomous Multicopters Using Mission Planner
  • ??: Building a Thought-Controlled Drone

4:00

  • Ross: The Legal Requirements for the Commercial Use of UAS Technology: An International Perspective
  • Brian: Flying in Wind: State Estimation and Control for Small Drones, Part II
  • Maurice: Staying Safe at Any Size: Identifying Risks to Your Small UAS Operation and How to Mitigate Them
  • ??: Mastering the OpenPilot Ground Control Station (GCS)
  • ??: Zen and the Art of Multirotor Maintenance
  • ??: PANEL: Little Drones and Big Data

Thursday

9:15

  • Brian: Applications of Rotation Matrices and Matrix-Vector Algebra in Autopilots
  • Daniel/Maurice: Small Drone Flight Operations
  • Dave: Notes From the Field: The Truth About Precision Agriculture
  • Ross: Putting Drones to Work: Meeting the Needs of Enterprises

11:30

  • Brian: Embedded Computer Vision for Safer, Faster Drones
  • Ross/Maurice: How to Legally Fly Unmanned Aircraft
  • Dave: Super Session: Remote Sensing with UAVs, Part I (3 hours)
  • ??: From Flying a Drone to Creating 2D and 3D: How to Process Images with Pix4Dmapper

1:45

  • Brian: DroneKit: The Application Platform and Toolkit for Drones
  • Ross/Maurice: Panel: Integrating Commercial Drones Into our National Airspace
  • Dave: Super Session: Remote Sensing with UAVs, Part II (3 hours)
  • ??: A Patent Marathon: 50 Drone Patents

3:15

  • Brian: Achieving Autonomy through Embedded Vision
  • Ross: Drone Laws: Intended and Unintended Circumstances
  • Dave: PANEL: Infrastructure Insights: Drone Innovation in Structural Inspection
  • ??: Getting Beyond "It’s Cool" - Integrating Drone-Derived Data into Enterprise Workflow
  • ?? : Safe and Efficient UAV Operations
  • ?? : Super Session: Remote Sensing with UAVs, Part III (3 hours)
  • ??: Turn Rate Fly-by-Wire Control of Fixed-Wing Aircraft

Friday

8:45

  • Ross: Developing Pilot Operating Handbook, Flight Operation Manuals, and Implementing a Safety Management System
  • Brian: Human Factors Engineering for Drone Systems
  • Dave: Mapping the World — Innovation in LiDar and 3D Mapping
  • ??: Using Drones for Live Broadcast
  • ??: UAS Testing Through the Lens of a State UAS Test Center

10:00

  • Brian: Fuzzy Logic Control Systems for Fixed-Wing Drones
  • Dave/Ross: FAA UAS Center of Excellence: Detect-and-Avoid Research
  • Maurice: Open for Business: Path to Safe, Legal, and Insured Commercial Drone Operations, Part I
  • ??: Satisfying the Spectrum Needs of Small UAVs
  • ??: Protecting Drone Technology with Patents
  • ??: Super Session: UAV Design and Construction, Part II (3 hours)

11:30

  • Dave: UAV/Drone Aerial Panoramas
  • Brian: Panel: Under the Hood
  • Ross/Maurice: Open for Business: Path to Safe, Legal and Insured Commercial Drone Operations, Part II
  • ??: Super Session: UAV Design and Construction, Part III (3 hours)
  • ??: Panel: The future of commercial drone retail distribution

3:00

  • Brian: Selection and Integration of Parachutes Into UAVs
  • Dave: Drone Therapy: Convincing Your Drone Not To Commit Suicide
  • ??: Drones that Produce Wind Energy will Become a Trillion Dollar Business