From 9 to 12 December, CATEC has organized at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Zagreb (Croatia), a Research Training course within the AeroSTREAM project (Strengthening Research and Innovation Excellence in Autonomous Aerial Systems), in which we participate, and which aims to achieve an integrated cooperation between institutions in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina with other partners from Spain, Czech Republic and the Netherlands. The scope of the European project focuses on the field of autonomous aerial systems (UAS) applications, with specific applications for intelligent agriculture, forestry and logistics.
This training activity in Zagreb included a series of lectures and practical sessions, aimed at participants with different levels of experience, focused on cutting-edge advances in robotics, UAV technologies and optimization methods, where we explored topics ranging from predictive control of nonlinear models for multirotor aerial robots to practical applications in GNSS, vehicle routing and visual landing control of UAVs.
The CATEC colleagues who have traveled to the Croatian city to participate have been Alejandro Murcia, engineer in the Autonomous Systems Unit and with participation in numerous national and European projects; Alejandra González, engineer in the Aerial Robotics team of the Autonomous Systems Unit, where she develops navigation and trajectory planning algorithms for U-space oriented projects; and José Antonio Álvarez, software engineer in the Perception and Artificial Intelligence Unit.
First Alejandro has offered the lecture ‘Fundamentals of GNSS’, Global Navigation Satellite System, and then he conducted a practical workshop, explaining two training use cases, one generated entirely in MATLAB and the other to be computed in real time with APM-SITL.
Alejandra Gonzalez has starred in a talk on ‘U-Space Fundamentals’, describing concept and its objectives, who are the parties involved and what are the services provided. She then gave a hands-on workshop on ‘Solving the vehicle routing problem using Google OR-Tools’.
Third, José Antonio Álvarez gave a talk on ‘Exploring visual landing control for UAVs: practical applications’. This analysis provides a better understanding of the optimization of software channels for UAV autonomy and offers practical recommendations on the use of emerging technologies in order to improve the reliability and efficiency of visual landing systems,” explains.
We remind that AeroSTREAM has received funding from the Horizon Europe program and integrates 14 European entities from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Spain, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic and has an execution period from 01/07/2022 to 30/06/2025.
