Schedules

Wednesday

9 to 10

  • Brian: Drone-Captured Crowd Analytics Through Deep Learning-Based Facial Emotion Recognition\
  • Ross: Getting Your UAS Off the Ground - Legal Consideration in Forming UAS Companies and Raising Capital
  • Dave:

10 to 11

Party!

11:15 to 12:15

  • Brian: Drone-Based 3D Mapping: The Major Data Revolution Happening Now
  • Dave: Drone-Based 3D Mapping: The Major Data Revolution Happening Now
  • Ross: Obtaining Section 333 Exemptions and Overview of State Law Developments

1:15 to 2:15

  • Ross: Drones and the Law - What’s on the Horizon
  • Brian: Building Big Data Solutions for Drone Data: The New Age of Aerial Information

2:30 to 3:15

  • Brian: Flying in Wind: State Estimation and Control for Small Drones, Part I
  • Dave: Indoor UAS Inspections
  • Ross: Intellectual Property for the UAV Industry: Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights
  • ??: 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
  • ??: Staying Safe at Any Size: Identifying Risks to Your Small UAS Operation and How to Mitigate Them
  • ??: Configuration and Tuning Tips with OpenPilot
  • ??: Zen and the Art of Multirotor Maintenance

Thursday

9:15

  • Brian: Applications of Rotation Matrices and Matrix-Vector Algebra in Autopilots
  • Daniel: 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: How to Legally Fly Unmanned Aircraft Dave: From Flying a Drone to Creating 2D and 3D: How to Process Images with Pix4Dmapper ??: Super Session: Remote Sensing with UAVs, Part I (3 hours)

1:45

Brian: DroneKit: The Application Platform and Toolkit for Drones Ross: A Patent Marathon: 50 Drone Patents Dave: ??: Super Session: Remote Sensing with UAVs, Part II (3 hours)

3:15

Brian: Achieving Autonomy through Embedded Vision Ross: Drone Laws: Intended and Unintended Circumstances ??: 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)