Luis Mejias

Great to present at the 2018 workshop on Aerial Robotic Inspection and Maintenance: Research Challenges, Field Experience and Industry Needs.  

Finished the first stage of my Sabbatical in France. I am now at University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS).

We just returned from Dalby, QLD where we were conducting flight experiments for autonomous emergency landing under project ResQu …, more results to come  

I started my sabbatical at France. I’ll be working with colleagues at LabSticc sharing my time between  UBO (Brest) and CNRS (Lorient).

  Delivering the course Service Robotics: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Civilian Tasks. I had the pleasure of delivering this course with two colleagues at the Pontifica Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. The course was attended by professionals, undergrad and postgrad students. We covered topics concerned with basics of control, guidance, dynamics, regulations but more importantly we […]

Last week part of the ARCAA team had a successful Avalon airshow with lots of interest from industry and many follow on to do. Hoping to establish new collaborations in 2015.  

At CIIMA, final day..  

I’m organising a workshop “UAS Integration into NAS:  Critical enabling technologies”  together with Terry Martin at the 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Systems. Orlando. May 27-30. USA. update: The day of the workshop has come. We had Peter van Blyenburghin the room providing great insights into the future of the regulatory arena. Lots of […]

I just returned from a trip to Portugal and Spain. I was invited to be panel member for Hugo Silva at Technical University of Lisbon. During the trip I gave three talks, INESC (Porto), ISR(Lisbon) and UPM (Madrid). I had also the chance to talk about future collaborations between institutions within Horizon2020.

I was invited to participate in the Round Table: Drones and Privacy held by Social Policy and Legal Affairs committee at the Australian parliament.