AAV 2022

Session

Date

Time

THEME

Chairman

1

6 Jan 2022

8:30 to 9:30

Registration

2

6 Jan 2022

9:30 to 10:45

Inaugural session & Keynote address

3

6 Jan 2022

11:15 to 12:55

Autonomous Technologies for UAV

Mr Vasanth Sastry, Sc G, ADE

4

6 Jan 2022

13:55 to 15:35

Technology, Applications and concept of

operation of UAVs

Ms Sudha Rani, Sc G, ADE

5

6 Jan 2022

16:00 – 18:05

UAV Technology Development

Mr Subramanian V, Sc G, ADE

6

7 Jan 2022

9:30 to 11:15

UAV Design and Development

Mr Manjunath, Sc G, ADE

7

7 Jan 2022

11:30 to 13:10

Future Technologies

Ms Veena Dixit, Sc G , ADE

8

7 Jan 2022

14:10 – 15:50

UAV application and Digital Technology for

UAV Development

Ms Asha Garg, Sc G, ADE

9

7 Jan 2022

15:50 –16:45

Panel Discussion & Concluding session

09:30

Invocation & Lamp Lighting

09:40

Welcome Address & Overview of Seminar

Shri R. Chandrasekaran, Sc ’G’ & Convener AAV-2022

09:45

Address by Dr Kota Harinaraya, Chairman, DD-AeSI

09:50

Address by Shri Y Dilip, OS & Director, ADE

09:55

Address by Chief Guest

Dr Tessy Thomas , DS & Director General (Aeronautical Systems)

10:05

Key note address by Prof M Vidyasagar

Reinforcement Learning for path planning in autonomous Vehicles

10:35

Vote of Thanks by Vadivelan, Sc-F & Co-Convener AAV-2022

10:40

High Tea

Session

Time (in hrs)

Speaker(s)

Topic/Subject

Online /

In-person

Session-01: Inaugural session

9:30 to 10:45

Inaugural function

In-person

10:05 to 10:35

Prof. M Vidya Sagar, IITG

Reinforcement Learning for autonomous Vehicles

Online

10:45 – 11:15

High Tea

Session-02: Autonomous Technologies for UAV

11:15 to 11:40

Ms Veena Dixit, Sc ‘G’ ADE

Flight Control Systems for Autonomous flight of UAV

In-person

11:40 to 12:05

Dr Arshad Jamal, Sc F, CAIR

Applications of Small

Intelligent Unmanned Aerial System

In-person

12:05 to 12:30

Dr. Amit Kumar Tripathi Dr. Niranjan Kumar Sura &

Dr Amitabh Saraf

Approach to Development of Automatic Takeoff and Landing (ATOL) Technologies for Fighter

Aircraft

In-person

12:30 to 12:55

Ms Sharmila, Sc E, ADE

Autonomous Landing of MALE UAV

In-person

12:55 to 13:55

Lunch

Session-03 Technology, Applications and concept of operation of UAVs

13:55 to 14:20

Gp Capt Arun Malhotra,

GD Ops IAF PMT, ADA

Concept of operation of

Autonomous Vehicles

In-person

14:20 to 14:45

Dr. Devanandham Henry

The value of adopting a Systems Engineering approach during UAV

design and development

In-person

14:45 to 15:10

Prof. Santosh Ansumali, JNCASR

Aerodynamic Simulation of unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Lattice Boltzmann

method.

In-person

15:10 to 15:35

Prof Sathya Narayana

Chakravarthy, IITM

Applications and Design

features of eVTOL aircraft

Online

15:35 to 16:00

Tea

Session-04: UAV Technology Development

16:00 – 16:25

Dr L Venkata Krishnan, NAL

The CSIR-High Altitude Aircraft Program

Online

16:25 – 16:50

Mr Sameer Joshi, Newspace Research &

Technologies

Swarm UAVs - Gamechangers over future

battlefield

In-person

16:50 – 17:15

Mr. Pritam Ashutosh, Edall Systems

Development of High-

Altitude VTOL Cargo Drone

In-person

17:15 – 17:40

David W Casbeer

Control and Optimization as a Foundation for Multi- UAV Coordination

Online

17:40-18:05

Dr Rajneesh K Singh

Role of high-fidelity flight simulators for UAV autonomy development

Online

Session

Time (in hrs)

Speaker

Topic/Subject

Online /

In-person

Session-05: UAV Design and Development

9:30 to 10:00

Dr S Venugopal, Director, ADE

Autonomous Aerial Vehicles-

Development Perspective for Present and Future

In-person

10:00 to 10:25

Prof Abhishek, IIT, Kanpur

Design and Autonomy Aspects of a Small-Scale Unmanned

Compound Helicopter

Online

10:25 to 10:50

Prof RK Pant, IIT

Bombay

Design of Autonomous Lighter-

than-Air systems

Online

10:50 to 11:15

Shri K Selvaraj, Sc G ADE

Wing Design Technology for HALE UAVs

In-person

11:15 to 11:30

Tea

Session-06: Future Technologies

11:30 to 11:55

Shri Jagannath Naik Dir, CHESS

Anti-Drone System and Technology in future warfare: Implementation, Challenges and

Prospectives

Online

11:55 to 12:20

Shri Krishan Lal, DEAL

Datalink Technologies: Present

and future

Online

12:20 to 12:45

Prof P Raja Lakshmi,

IIT Hyderabad

Lidar based aerial Navigation

systems

Online

12:45 – 13:10

Dr L Ravi Kumar, MSG, URSC, ISRO

Swarm UAV cooperative decentralized control with obstacle avoidance

Online

13:10 to 14:10

Lunch

Session-07: UAV application and Digital Technology for

UAV Development

14:10 – 14:35

Cmde. TV Sunil,

Commodore (Naval Air Staff)

UAV and UCAV requirements

and applications from Naval Perspective

Online

14:35 to 15:00

Lt. Col Arun Sharma,

GS01, Aviation 10

UAV requirements from Army

perspective

Online

15:00 –15:25

Kiran Jacob & Umashankar G

Accelerating UAV development through Model-based & Data-

Driven engineering

In-person

15:25 –15:50

Mr. Amit Agarwal, Ansys

Accelerating UAV product development and operations with Digital technology.

Online

Session-08 Panel Discussion & Concluding session

15:50 –16:45

Panel Discussion

• Synergy between Design, Production and User agency to realize UAV
• Technology areas UAV developers have to focus to increase the autonomy level of UAV

Concluding session

Felicitation of Sponsors

16:45 – 17:00

Tea & Snacks

Panel Discussion & Concluding session

Moderator

Dr Kota Harinarayana, SERB Distinguished fellow, CSIR-NAL &

Chairman, DD-AeSI

Members

1. Vice Adm. Raman Puri, PVSM, AVSM, VSM
2. Prof Sudhakar, IITB (Retd)
3. Dr Subrata Rakshit, OS & Director CAIR
4. Shri Y Dilip, OS& Director, ADE
5. Dr Ravi Kiran, Director Defence and Aerospace, Dassault Systems
6. Gp Capt Modak, PMT, ADE
7. Shri Laxmesh BH, VP & Head-Missiles & Aerospace Business – L&T Defence

Theme

1. Synergy between Design, Production and User agency to realize UAV
2. Technology areas UAV developers have to focus to increase the autonomy level of UAV