Schedules
Wednesday
9
- 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: Super Session: UAV Developmental Test and Evaluation, Part I
- ??: Build Your Own Flying Drone
11:15
- Brian: Drone-Based 3D Mapping: The Major Data Revolution Happening Now
- Dave: Super Session: UAV Developmental Test and Evaluation, Part II
- Ross: Obtaining Section 333 Exemptions and Overview of State Law Developments
- ?? : Configuration and Tuning Tips with OpenPilot
- ??: Introduction to Electric Power Systems
1:15
- 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)
- ??: Turn Rate Fly-by-Wire Control of Fixed-Wing Aircraft
Friday
8:45
- Ross: Developing Pilot Operating Handbook, Flight Operation Manuals, and Implementing a Safety Management System
- Brian: Human Factors Engineering for Drone Systems
- Dave: Using Drones for Live Broadcast
- ??: UAS Testing Through the Lens of a State UAS Test Center
10:00
- Brian: Fuzzy Logic Control Systems for Fixed-Wing Drones
- Dave: FAA UAS Center of Excellence: Detect-and-Avoid Research
- Ross: Satisfying the Spectrum Needs of Small UAVs
- ??: Protecting Drone Technology with Patents
- ??: Open for Business: Path to Safe, Legal, and Insured Commercial Drone Operations, Part I
- ??: Super Session: UAV Design and Construction, Part II (3 hours)
11:30
- Dave: UAV/Drone Aerial Panoramas
- Brian: Panel: Under the Hood
- ??: Open for Business: Path to Safe, Legal and Insured Commercial Drone Operations, Part II
- ??: Super Session: UAV Design and Construction, Part III (3 hours)
- ??: Panel: The future of commercial drone retail distribution
3:00
- Brian: Selection and Integration of Parachutes Into UAVs
- Dave: Drone Therapy: Convincing Your Drone Not To Commit Suicide
- ??: Drones that Produce Wind Energy will Become a Trillion Dollar Business