The Research Days are an annual workshop focussing on the core competence of Lakeside Labs: self-organizing networked systems.

We cordially invite you to The Research Days 2013, the annual workshop of Lakeside Labs and Alpen-Adria-Universität. For the 6^th time, we will host international experts, local professors, and young researchers to discuss ideas and exchange experiences. The event is organized as a workshop, where invited talks from experts and targeted discussions take place. It will be at Lakeside Labs GmbH in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria, near a beautiful lake and Alp scenery between 8-12 July, 2013.

We are happy to announce that this year's Research Days will focus on Multi-UAV Systems. Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used with increasing interest in civil and commercial applications and by the scientific research community. Recently, research and development efforts have shifted toward using teams of UAVs for monitoring, surveillance, or disaster assistance, to name a few applications. However, the design principles of such a multi-UAV system still need intensive investigations. Ideally, a multi-UAV system is robust, adaptive, resource-efficient, scalable, cooperative, supportive of heterogeneity, and last but not least, self-organizing to realize its full potential. To achieve these properties, the physical control of individual robots, their sensor data analysis, navigation, and communication capabilities need to be integrated, which naturally brings together experts from many disciplines such as robotics, networking, and swarm intelligence.

Research Days 2013 will include projects and research aiming at the following (not limited) key topics

• coordination of aerial robots (e.g. movement and task execution)
• mission planning
• wireless networking (e.g. robust multimedia streaming)
• aerial imaging with person detection and 3D reconstruction
• application in real-world disaster management

Please feel free to spread this information among your colleagues and anyone you think might be interested in participating.

We look forward to hosting you! Please check our research on Collaborative Multi-UAV Systems at http://uav.lakeside-labs.com/ and our videos at http://uav.lakeside-labs.com/media/video-clips/.

Please add the Research Days to your calendar here.

Registration

The registration fee for the 4 day workshop is EURO 500,-. A social event is included in the program. A special session will discuss project collaboration and future issues. The Research Days have taken place annually since 2008. Notable results from previous Research Days have been new research collaborations, several joint papers, organization of conference special sessions, and the conception and submission of joint research projects in the EU FP7. Please register via email at researchdays@lakeside-labs.com

Location

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