A Visit at NASA Ames

21 May 2019

Since 2018 it has been officially running, our international cooperation under the title "US-German Research Project Agreement (RPA) on Advanced Helicopter Technologies". For the purpose of intensive technical and scientific exchange, German scientists and officials (BAAINBw, DLR, UBM) and their US counterparts (US Army, AMRDEC) meet twice a year. This time it was again the turn of the branch office on the NASA Ames site in Moffett Field, CA. Besides the technical discussions at the RPA on topics of helicopter cockpit design and automation for manned-unmanned missions, the contribution of the group around Prof. Schulte and Dr. Donath, this traditional aviation location has a lot to offer. The photo shows the group visiting the world's largest wind tunnel, the "National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC)". The gigantic dimensions of the facility can be roughly guessed.

But even apart from that, a stay in Silicon Valley is always of great interest to such "techies" as we are. This time, Matthias Frey, Carsten Meyer, Gunar Roth, Dr. Diana Donath and Prof. Axel Schulte are among the participants. Our American friends are already looking forward to a return visit in Munich in September.

Aktuelles

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)

The Learning Effective Abstractions for Planning (LEAP) workshop, part of the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), took place on 9 November 2024.

B-Prepared Meeting in Genoa for the Fifth Product Increment Planning and the General Assembly

From 15th to 17th October, the members of the EU-Horizon project "B-Prepared" gathered for a project meeting at the Green Palace in the Genova Blue District near the harbour in Genoa.

Ignaz Kögler Research Summer Camp – 22.09. to 29.09.2024

In the last week of September, the Ignaz Kögler Research Summer Camp 2024 took place in Ingolstadt, in which Sean Klein from the AI Lab also took part. In addition to interesting lectures on autonomous flying, urban air mobility (UAM), artificial intelligence and the use of sensor data, prototypes for camera-based trajectory prediction and for the safe autonomous landing of drones were also developed.

34th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2024)

at the Banff Centre in Banff, AB, CANADA, over the dates of June 1–6, 2024

Sankt Katharinen – 18.06.2024

On 18.06.2024, the AI-Lab drones got new members.

GÜZ – Gefechtsübungszentrum in Gardelegen 04.06.2024 – 07.06.2024

This year, the AI-Lab team, together with the WIWeB's Soldier Innovation Lab, was once again able to accompany the training operations at the Combat Training Center in Gardelegen from 04.06.2024 to 07.06.2024.

Participation in the networking and demonstration meeting for autonomous flying systems SPRIND FUNKE ‘Fully Autonomous Flight

An insightful event at which SMEs, start-ups and research institutes explore the limits of future autonomous drones: To all selected winners, all the best for the final phase of the competition!