Beschreibung
This volume presents the conference proceedings from FinDrones 2023. The book highlights recent drone technology developments by experts and academicians for applications in agriculture, forestry, and other industries. This iteration of FinDrones presents research using autonomous drones in various fields from environmental monitoring to farm robotics and from photogrammetry to search and rescue missions. Emphasis is placed on contextualizing the conference presentations and content to Finland and the unique challenges typical to the region. The work will interest academicians, entrepreneurs, and professionals involved in remote sensing applications of unmanned aerial vehicles and enthusiasts of drone technological developments.
Autorenporträt
Dr Tomi Westerlund is a professor in robotics and autonomous systems. He is the research group leader of the Turku Intelligent Embedded and Robotics Systems (TIERS) lab at the University of Turku, Finland. TIERSs main research interests are in multi-robot systems, autonomous robots and edge computing. The main application areas for TIERS include collaborative and heterogeneous multi-robot systems, blockchain technology for distributed robotic systems, localization and mapping of urban and unstructured environments, hardware accelerators for ROS and embedded and distributed intelligence. In essence, to better understand how robots operate and can perform a variety of functions in different fields like environmental monitoring, delivery, agriculture, and search and rescue missions. Prof. Westerlund is a senior member of IEEE. Jorge Peña Queralta received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and physics engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain, in 2016, the M.Sc. (Tech.) degree in ICT from the University of Turku, Turku, Finland, in 2018, the M.Eng. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2018, and the Ph.D. (Tech.) degree from the University of Turku in 2022. He is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Turku Intelligent Embedded and Robotic Systems Group, University of Turku. His research interests include multi-robot systems, collaborative autonomy, distributed perception, and robot learning.
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