**Speakers confirmed for the AerialSim Workshop at ICRA2023**

https://imrclab.github.io/workshop-uav-sims-icra2023/

For the ICRA 2023 half day workshop “The Role of Robotics Simulators for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, we are excited to host a lineup of exceptional speakers, including:

• Davide Scaramuzza – University of Zürich

• Angela Schoellig – Technical University of Münich

• Tomáš Báča – Czech Technical University in Prague

• Sashi Mishra  – Microsoft, AirSim

• Praveen Palanisamy – Microsoft, AirSim

Additionally, we are pleased to announce the release of a preliminary schedule for the workshop and the opportunity for participants to showcase their work through poster presentations by submitting an extended abstract.

Preliminary Schedule

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Friday 2nd of June

08:25 – Introduction and overview workshop

08:30 – Tomáš Báča – Abstractions and Simulations as the Backbone of Reproducible Research

09:00 – Angela Schoellig – TBD

09:30 – Coffee break

09:45 – Saskhi Mishra & Pavreen Palanisamy – Microsoft Project AirSim for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

10:15 – Davide Scaramuzza – Vision based Agile Flight, from simulation to reality

10:45 – Coffee break

11:00-  Posters contributed abstracts

11:30-  Breakout sessions

12:00-  Presentation session + Open discussion

12:20 – Final remark

Important Dates

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Abstract submission deadline: March 20th, 2023.

Notification to authors: April 10th, 2023

Workshop day: morning of 2nd of June 2023 (after the main conference of ICRA’23)

Summary Workshop

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The workshop aims to provide the participants with the knowledge and experience of researchers who have struggled to find, customize, or design a robotic simulator for their own purposes or specific application. The focus is on aerial vehicles, especially multi-rotor aircraft, where we expect simulation solutions to be of continued importance for both research and industrial applications. Simulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a specialized task, because of aerodynamic interactions (with the environment or other robots), the fast operating speed compared to other robots (e.g., mobile, legged), and the potentially large number of interacting robots in three dimensions (e.g., swarms of delivery drones).

Organizing Committee

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• Kimberly McGuire, Bitcraze AB

• Giuseppe Silano, RSE S.p.A. and CTU Prague

• Chiara Gabellieri, TU Twente

• Wolfgang Hönig, TU Berlin

Steering Committee

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• Antonio Franchi, Technical University of Twente

• Martin Saska, Czech Technical University in Prague 

• Gianluca Antonelli, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio

• Vincenzo Lippiello, University of Naples Federico II

• Gurav Sukhatme, University of Southern California

• Stefano Stramigioli, Technical University of Twente