The PhD Thesis A Foundation for Perception in Autonomous Systems written by Ignacio Lopez is ready to be defended. Read more details about this work at Ignacio's PhD thesis description page or download a PDF copy of the draft release.

ASLab will be represented in the 2006 SMi conference entitled the Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. This conference will be held on the 27th and 28th of November 2006, at The Hatton and other venues in London. It is supported by ASD-Network.com, Army-Technology.com, AirInternational.com and Uavworld.com.

The programme will address operations and concepts of UAVs with a view to the future battlefield, looking at the key areas that are influencing their use. The conference will investigate the relationship between UAV development and network centric and network-enabled visions, looking at ISTAR capabilities within military operations, autonomy levels in UAVs and the rules and regulations of flying in military and civil airspace.

The two-day Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles conference will examine the military needs of UAV's looking at modern military operations. The conference offers case studies from international programmes and allows attendees to address their key concerns by drawing on the experience of our expert panel.

There is also a half-day post-conference interactive workshop, entitled UAV Positioning, Orientation and Collaborative Behaviour, which will be held at the The Hatton, Central London, on the 29th November 2006, in association with The University of Nottingham and The Defence Academy.

A Component Approach to Real-time and Embedded

The purpose of the COMPARE project is to develop a framework based on the CORBA Compoment Model (CCM for real-time and embedded).

The reference implementation of it will be tested on two different application cases (one based on RT-CORBA, the second on OSEK-VDX RTOS).