icra2023

In just about 2 weeks, it’s ICRA 2023, which, as you could guess from the title of the post, is in London. The ExCel venue will welcome the world’s top academics, researchers, and industry representatives from May 29 to June 2nd, and that’s something we don’t want to miss.

ICRA is a conference that we hold dear and attended quite a few times – whether in person or online. We’ll be holding a booth there so don’t hesitate to pass by to say hello and see our demo!

We will be using the same demo as the one from IROS 2022; a fully decentralized swarm with the Lighthouse system. What we changed is that now we will be using the Crazyradio 2.0. We’re working on updating the demo and seeing what can be improved in the time we have before the conference. As a bonus, we plan to bring some prototypes and surprises; just to show off all the work we’ve been doing since our last conference in Japan.
We will also have Matej Karasek, our partner from Flapper Drones with us in the booth! A good occasion to see his Nimble + in action and ask him all your questions.

Additionally, on Friday afternoon there will be a half-day workshop called ‘The Role of Robotics Simulators for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ that we helped organized. This workshop gathers researchers who have struggled to find, customize, or design a robotic simulator for their own purposes or specific application; so don’t hesitate to join if you’ve worked (or plan to) with drone simulation. All the information are here, be sure to sign up for it at your ICRA registration if you’re interested. It can also be attended by a stream by signing up for the virtual ICRA conference.

So we hope to see you in London, at booth H10 for good discussions, interesting conversations, and eventually a cup of tea!

We are excited to announce that we will be having developer meetings on first Wednesdays of every month! Additionally, we are thrilled to be present in person at ICRA 2023 in London. During the same conference, there will be half day workshop called ‘The Role of Robotics Simulators for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ so make sure to sign-up! Please check out our newly updated event-page !

Monthly Developer meetings

We have had some online developer meetings in the past covering various topics. While these meetings may not have been the most popular, we believe it is crucial to maintain communication with the community and have interesting discussions, and exchange of ideas. However, we used to plan them ad-hoc and we had no regularity in them, which sometimes caused some of us **cough** especially me **cough**, to create confusion about the timing and location. To remove these factors of templexia (dyslexia for time), we will just have it simply on the first Wednesday of every month.

So our first one with be on Wednesday 5th of April at 15:00 CEST and the information about the particular developer meeting will be as usual on discussions. From 15:00 – 15:30 it will be a general discussion, probably with a short presentation, about a topic to be determined. From 15:30-16:00 will address regular support question from anybody that need help with their work on the Crazyflie.

ICRA 2023 London

ICRA will be held in London this year, from May 29 – June 2nd, atthe ExCel venue. We will be located in the H11 booth in the exhibitor hall, but as the date approaches, we will share more about what awesome prototypes we will showcase and what we will demonstrate on-site. Rest assured, plenty of Crazyflies will be flown in the cage! To get an idea of what we demo-ed last year it IROS Kyoto, please check out the IROS 2022 event page. Matej from Flapper Drones will join us at our booth to showcase the Flapper drone.

We are thinking of organizing a meetup for participants on the Wednesday after the Conference Dinner, so we will share the details of that in the near future as well. Also keep an eye on our ICRA 2023 event page for updated information.

ICRA Aerial Robotic Simulation Workshop

I (Kimberly) will also be present at the ‘The Role of Robotics Simulators for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles‘ workshop on Friday June 2nd. Together with Giuseppe Silano, Chiara Gabellieri and Wolfgang Hönig, we will be organizing a half day workshop focused on UAV-specific simulation in robotics. We have invited some great speakers namely: Tomáš Báča, Davide Scaramuzza, Angela Schoellig and Jaeyoung Lim. The topics will cover multi-YAV simulation to realistic vision-based rending and software-in-the-loop handling for PX4.

Additionally, participants can submit an extended abstract to be invited for an poster presentation during the same workshop. The submission deadline has been extended to April 3rd, so for more information about submission, schedule and speaker info, go to the workshop’s website.