A paper entitled "Improving Endurance of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles through
Intelligent Service-Station Placement" by Roy Godzdanker, myself, and Kimon Valavanis has been accepted for publication / presentation at
the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (http://www.icra2012.org/) in St. Paul, MN in May.

Roy Godzdanker successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled "AN INTEGRATED PLATFORM TO INCREASE THE RANGE/ENDURANCE OF UNMANNED HELICOPTERS." Abstract follows:

A paper entitled "Radar-Based Detection and Identification for Miniature Air Vehicles" by Allistair Moses, myself, and Kimon Valavanis has been accepted for publication at the 2011 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC 2011). The abstract follows:

It is claimed that Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) used for civilian/public domain applications will be dominant
in the near future. Compared to UAVs used by the military,
civilian UAVs are often operated by pilots without formal
training, and hence they require increased levels of autonomy

Roy Godzdanker will be presenting a paper authored with myself and Kimon Valavanis at the upcoming IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). The paper is entitled "ISLANDS: A Self-Leveling Landing Platform for Autonomous Miniature UAVs," the abstract is:

The Intelligent Self-Leveling and Nodal Docking
System (ISLANDS) is a mobile recharging/refueling station
designed and built to enhance endurance and range of smallscale,
autonomous, unmanned helicopters, which are becoming
increasingly popular for a wide range of non-military applications

Dr. Kimon Valavanis will present a talk entitled "A Miniature UAV Radar System" at the MED 2011 Workshop on Micro and Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Design, Sensor - Based Control and Applications, on June 20th, 2011 in Corfu, Greece.

This is work done by Allistair Moses, myself, Michail Konstitis and Dr. Valavanis.

Slides are attached.

A paper entitled "Search Methodologies for Node Recovery in Robotic Swarms" by Goncalo Martins, myself, and Kimon Valanvanis has been accepted for publication at the 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 2011).

The conference website is: http://www.med2011.org/

Slides are attached.

Ph.D. student Allistair Moses will present a paper, entitled "UAV-borne X-band Radar for MAV Collision Avoidance" co-authored by Allistair, myself, Dr. Michail Kontitsis and Dr. Kimon Valavanis, at the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing conference in Orlando, FL on April 28, 2011.

Abstract (Slides attached):

Increased use of Miniature (Unmanned) Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is
coincidentally accompanied by a notable lack of sensors suitable for
enabling further increases in levels of autonomy and consequently,
integration into the National Airspace System (NAS). The majority of

Many security problems in software are born when software developers
make poor implementation decisions or unwittingly introduce bugs in
their code. In this course, we will cover many of the classical flaws
in systems that can lead to security problems, including: buffer
overruns, format string problems, overflows, exception issues, race
conditions, etc. We will also cover some webapp-specific topics such
as SQL injection attacks, and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

We will use the book "24 Deadly Sins of Software Security: Programming

The abstract of his thesis:

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