{"id":237595,"date":"2016-06-06T19:08:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-group&#038;p=237595"},"modified":"2022-01-19T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:22:09","slug":"air","status":"publish","type":"msr-group","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/air\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerial Informatics and Robotics Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"mb-3 moray-highlight\">\n\t<div class=\"card-img-overlay mx-lg-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-background  has-background- card-background--full-bleed\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/drone-bird.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"a plane flying in the air on a cloudy day\" style=\"object-position: 63% 46%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/drone-bird.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/drone-bird-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/drone-bird-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/drone-bird-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/drone-bird-343x193.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<!-- Foreground -->\n\t\t<div class=\"card-foreground d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 px-g px-lg-0\">\n\t\t\t<!-- Container -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 align-self-center\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Card wrapper -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 w-lg-col-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Card -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card material-md-card py-5 px-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 id=\"aerial-informatics-and-robotics-group\" class=\"h2\">Aerial Informatics and Robotics Group<\/h1>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0338\" class=\"wp-image-814138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-2048x1153.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-1066x600.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-655x368.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-343x193.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_0338-edited-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The Aerial Informatics and Robotics (AIR) group builds intelligent and autonomous flying agents that are safe and enable applications that can positively influence our society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Our core technology builds upon cutting edge research in machine intelligence, robotics and human-centered computation in order to enable an entire fleet of flying robots that range from micro-UAVs to commercial jetliners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Our research brings together the ideas from machine learning and perception and enables Decision making under Uncertainty for various challenges that arise in robotic platforms. This synthesis of algorithms and systems enables aerial vehicles such as quadrotors, soaring gliders, small aircrafts, and commercial airliners. The applications scenarios include monitoring for precision agriculture, pathogen surveillance, weather sensing, enabling digital connectivity etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Latest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AirSim accepted at Field and Service Robotics\u00a0(FSR 2017).<\/li><li>Three papers accepted at International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017).<\/li><li>We hosted <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/redmond\/events\/safecps2016\/\">SafeCPS 2016 Faculty Summit Workshop<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> on July 15, 2016.<\/li><li>At <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roboticsconference.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robotics Science and Systems (RSS)<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> 2016 conference we presented two papers: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roboticsproceedings.org\/rss12\/p17.html\">Safe Control under uncertainty and PrSTL<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> and <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kavrakilab.org\/2016-rss-workshop\/abstracts\/dey.pdf\">Towards Fast Safe Mission Planning<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aerial Informatics and Robotics (AIR) group builds intelligent and autonomous flying agents that are safe and enable applications that can positively influence our society. Our core technology builds upon cutting edge research in machine intelligence, robotics and human-centered computation in order to enable an entire fleet of flying robots that range from micro-UAVs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":255123,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_group_start":"","footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556,13562,13552],"msr-group-type":[243694],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-237595","msr-group","type-msr-group","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-research-area-computer-vision","msr-research-area-hardware-devices","msr-group-type-group","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_group_start":"","msr_detailed_description":"","msr_further_details":"","msr_hero_images":[],"msr_research_lab":[199565],"related-researchers":[{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Shital Shah","user_id":35435,"people_section":"Group 1","alias":"shitals"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Rick Rogahn","user_id":33458,"people_section":"Group 1","alias":"rrogahn"}],"related-publications":[396932,396914,363776,337874,297014,297023,246818,251552,319310,642336],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-projects":[359810,256167,255129],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[386729,440229,483459,550065,608385,624378,624726,669336,683157,713494,720673,756094],"tab-content":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group\/237595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-group"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group\/237595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933207,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group\/237595\/revisions\/933207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=237595"},{"taxonomy":"msr-group-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group-type?post=237595"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=237595"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=237595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}