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For fast search &amp; rescue or inspection of complex environments, flying robots are probably the most efficient and versatile devices. However, the limited flight time and payload, as well as the restricted computing power of drones renders autonomous operations quite challenging. This talk will focus on the design and autonomous navigation of flying robots. Innovative designs of flying systems, from novel concepts of omni-directional multi-copters to solar airplanes for continuous flights are presented. Recent results of visual and laser based navigation (localization, mapping, planning) in GPS denied environments are showcased and discussed. Performance and potential applications are presented.

ROBOVIS 2021 

Pioneering Flying Robots

## Welcome to NAACL 2022!
The Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) is taking place July 10-15, 2022 as a hybrid event, in Seattle, WA and online. We are happy to welcome all of you to conference! 
 
The main conference program features oral presentations, in-person and virtual posters and demo sessions, a plenary session for our best paper presentations and awards, keynote presentations, a plenary panel on the place of linguistics and symbolic structures in NLP, and an Industrial Track panel on Careers in NLP.
 
Posters (including Findings of NAACL 2022) and demos are grouped by areas for both the in-person and the virtual sessions. For the virtual component, the talks will be on Zoom and the posters and the demos will be in GatherTown. The Student Research Workshop and will have an oral session and a poster session.
 
The program also features 6 Tutorials and 26 Workshops.
 
 We wish you a wonderful conference!
 
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NAACL 2022

2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

For fast search & rescue or inspection of complex environments, flying robots are probably the most efficient and versatile devices. However, the limited flight time and payload, as well as the restricted computing power of drones renders autonomous operations quite challenging. This talk will focus on the design and autonomous navigation of flying robots. Innovative designs of flying systems, from novel concepts of omni-directional multi-copters to solar airplanes for continuous flights are presented. Recent results of visual and laser based navigation (localization, mapping, planning) in GPS denied environments are showcased and discussed. Performance and potential applications are presented.

keynote

Robotics is a field that is closely connected to Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems. Research and development of robots require technologies originating from the other two areas; the research work in Computer Vision has often been driven by needs in Robotics; Intelligent Systems models and software have often been developed aiming at applications in the areas of physical agents, i.e. robots, or in areas related to scene understanding, video and image processing, and many other aspects of computer vision. There is a need for a venue where these three research communities, often isolated, meet and discuss innovation possibilities driven by the intersection of these highly synergetic fields. 
CONFERENCE AREAS 
1 . Robotics 
2 . Computer Vision 
3 . Intelligent Systems

Robotics is a field that is closely connected to Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems. Research and development of robots require technologies originating from the other two areas; the research work in Computer Vision has often been driven by needs in Robotics; Intelligent Systems models and software have often been developed aiming at applications in the areas of physical agents, i.e. robots, or in areas  related to scene understanding, video and image processing, and many other aspects of computer vision.

This talk will present our contributions in the domain of field-hardened resilient robotic autonomy and specifically on multi-modal sensing-degraded GPS-denied localization and mapping, informative path planning, and robust control to facilitate reliable access, exploration, mapping and search of challenging environments such as subterranean settings. The presented work will, among others, emphasize on fundamental developments taking place in the framework of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge and the research of the CERBERUS (https://www.subt-cerberus.org/) team, alongside work on nuclear site characterization and infrastructure inspection. Relevant field results from both active and abandoned underground mines as well as tunnels in the U.S. and in Switzerland will be presented. In addition, a selected set of prior works on long-term autonomy, including the world-record on unmanned aircraft endurance will be briefly overviewed. The talk will conclude with directions for future research to enable advanced autonomy and resilience, alongside the necessary connection to education and the potential for major broader impacts to the benefit of our economy and society.

Pioneering Flying Robots

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