Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), Bangalore, a multi-disciplinary organisation organised an “International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles” in 2009 in Bangalore to commemorate its golden jubilee year. This milestone event had 48 speakers (30 from abroad) and 500 delegates representing 10 countries, who deliberated on the entire spectrum of UAV technologies on aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, control and certification. ICAUV 2009 was well supported and patronised by 14 sponsors and 32 exhibitors covering six countries.

The second edition of the International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles (ICAUV-2012, www.icauv2012.org) is to be held on February 24-25, 2012, at Eagleton Golf Resort, Bangalore. The conference focuses on the design, development and testing of autonomous unmanned vehicles in the field of aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, control, payload and communication systems by way of dedicated technical sessions. The technical sessions deliberate upon UAV certification standards, air traffic management, operational experiences & lessons learned, automatic takeoff and landing, communications spectrum and bandwidth, sense and avoid, interoperability, armed reconnaissance, UCAV design and UAV concept of operations.

A dedicated industry session to create intra and inter coordination of global vendors is scheduled on February 25. Apart from UAS, for the first time in the country the conference aims at bringing all the core technologies pertaining to the unmanned vehicles (air, land and sea) under one roof by having a dedicated technical session for each of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs).

The proposed conference is expected to have more than 400 participants from Defence Research and Development Organisation labs, armed services, CSIR, ISRO, IITs, IISc, universities and private aeronautical industries apart from 50 foreign participants. Preliminary dialogue with international autonomous unmanned systems community confirms participation of distinguished speakers from AFRL, Naval Post Graduate, WSU, University of Pennysalvia, EADS, Cranfield, ICAO, EUROCONTROL, Rolls Royce, Saab, BAE systems, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. A technology exposition will form part of the event showcasing the products and technologies covering the unmanned vehicles.

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