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 Prof. Chinthaka Premachandra Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan |
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| Title: Vision based approaches for autonomous flight of aerial robots | |
| Abstract: Vision based techniques have been widely applied in aerial robots to achieve autonomous flight and other operations by them. To apply vision based techniques in autonomous flight control, flight environment recognition by aerial robots itself is very important. This can be achieved by using the on-robot cameras and sensors. The on board cameras can capture the environment to the images in detail rather than other sensors. Thus, the flight environment can easily be recognized by processing the images from on-board cameras. However, to achieve a certain flight control following the image processing results, real time image processing is extremely important. In addition to that, the image processing should be implemented with light-weight hardware that can be installed in aerial robots. This keynote includes the contents regarding the hardware and software aspects that are required to implement autonomous flight with the on-board cameras. | |
| Biography: Prof. Chinthaka Premachandra (IEEE member) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Mie University, Tsu, Japan, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2011. From 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan. From 2016 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo. In 2018, he was promoted to an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering/Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, where he is currently the Manager of the Image Processing and Robotic Laboratory. His laboratory conducts research in two main fields: image processing and robotics. The former field includes computer vision, AI, image processing, and camera-based intelligent transportation systems, while the latter field includes terrestrial robotic systems, flying robotic systems, and integration of terrestrial robot and flying robot. He is the author or co-author of more than 120 publications including Books, Journal papers, and Conference papers. Dr. Premachandra is a member of IEICE, Japan; SICE, Japan; and SOFT, Japan. He received the FIT Best Paper Award and the FIT Young Researchers Award from IEICE and IPSJ, Japan, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. He has served many international conferences and journals as a Steering Committee Member and an Editor, respectively. He is the Founding Chair of the International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB) which is technically co-sponsored by IEEE. | |
