Bioinspired, Soft and Other Novel Design Paradigms for Aerial Robotics Workshop at ICRA 2024

The Bioinspired, Soft and Other Novel Design Paradigms for Aerial Robotics workshop took place on May 13, 2024, in Room North G301 at PACIFICO Yokohama. It was a full-day hybrid event supported by the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

The workshop explored bioinspired and soft-robotics approaches to building adaptable, safe, and energy-efficient aerial systems. See the original workshop website and official ICRA 2024 program.

Schedule

Time	Program
9:00–9:05	Welcome
9:05–9:30	Bioinspired aerial robots — Anibal Ollero, GRIFFIN: A new generation of flapping-wing robots with autonomous flying and manipulation capabilities
9:30–9:50	Short presentations 1 L. Girardi, G. Risso, L. Pesaresi, P. Ermanni, and S. Mintchev — A Soft Reconfigurable Multirotor With a Multistable Composite Laminate Airframe S. Wang, M. den Hoed, and S. Hamaza — A Low-cost Fabrication Approach to Embody Flexible and Lightweight Strain Sensing on Flapping Wings A. Saviolo, J. Frey, A. Rathod, M. Diehl, and G. Loianno — Active Learning of Discrete-Time Dynamics for Uncertainty-Aware Model Predictive Control S. Bai, Q. Pan, R. Ding, H. Jia, Z. Yang, and P. Chirarattananon — An Agile Monopedal Hopping Quadcopter with Synergistic Hybrid Locomotion A. Rosa, E. Sanchez-Laulhe, and Anibal Ollero — Model-Based Lateral Tracking for Bird-Size Ornithopters in Perching Scenario
9:50–10:25	Coffee break and poster presentation
10:25–10:50	Mirko Kovac — Bio-inspired Aerial Robotics for Environmental Monitoring
10:50–11:10	Hoong Cheol Park — Mimicking insect flight: Collision recovery of beetle and flapping flight in low-density-air environment
11:10–11:30	T. Thang Vo-Doan — Insect-machine hybrid robots: Remote flight control for living insects
11:30–11:50	Pauline Pounds — Bio-inspired Drones and Sensors
11:50–12:13	Discussion 1 — The role of bioinspiration in aerial robotics
12:13–13:30	Lunch
13:30–13:55	Morphing, soft aerial robots and other innovations — Dario Floreano, Tensegrity Design of Resilient Drones
13:55–14:15	Begoña Arrue — Soft Aerial Robots and Applications
14:15–14:35	Josie Hughes — Exploiting Compliant and Environmentally Constrained Structures for Aerial Robots
14:35–15:00	Stefano Stramigioli — Multi-physics modeling in flapping flight: the PortWings story
15:00–15:20	Harry Vourtsis — Morphing drones for inspecting and monitoring power infrastructure
15:20–15:40	Jaime Marco-Rider — Novel concepts in the AEROX Aerial manipulation system for industrial contact inspections
15:40–16:00	Short presentations 2 A. Romero, Y. Song, and D. Scaramuzza — Actor-Critic Model Predictive Control S. Azem, D. Scheunert, M. Li, J. Gehrunger, K. Cui, C. Hochberger, and H. Koeppl — FPGA-Based Neural Thrust Controller for UAVs T. Pham, Q. Ngoc Pham, G. Loianno, and Van Anh Ho — Dynamic Modeling of Deformable Propeller under Collision Hung T. A. Kent, K. E. Stanchak, B. Brunton, and S. Bergbreiter — Asymmetric Mechanosensing for Uncertainty Reduction in Bio-Inspired Flight
16:00–16:25	Coffee Break
16:25–16:40	Discussion 2 — The role of morphing, soft robotics and other innovations
16:40–17:00	Meeting of the IEEE TC Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, including presentation of the IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics
17:00	End of the Workshop