PhD School
Artificial Intelligence for
Urban Air Mobility (AI4UAM)
Dept. of Computer Control and Management Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome
Via Ariosto 25, Roma, Italy
Aula Magna
September 5-9, 2022
Abstract
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly becoming a key technology to solve a wide range of problems due to their high mobility in three-dimensional space, easy deployment, and relatively low cost. Since UAVs are easily deployable and have a more flexible configuration than terrestrial devices, they can be used in many applications domains.
Some examples include UAVs used as 1) aerial stations to provide services after a natural disaster or for network access in remote areas; for 2) emergency communications and rescue support; 3) surveillance tasks in risky and dangerous areas; for 4) cargo and goods delivery to supply food and medical goods; in 5) agricultural field to monitor and facilitate farming activities.
AI4UAM is the first Summer School that focuses on topics in the areas of :
Air Drone Traffic Management
U-Space services, CNS infrastructure, and surveillance
Data analysis for Air Traffic management
Multi-UAV Planning and Reinforcement Learning
Risk-based Reinforcement Learning
Human-AI teams in Air Traffic Management
Decision making
Machine learning and simulations
AI4UAM has been organized within the BUBBLES UE project.
BUBBLES is aimed to contribute to the safe and efficient use of UAS in the European Sky supported by SESAR JU. This project will define U-space services enabling the safe and efficient operation of large numbers of drones without adversely affecting manned aviation.
Schedule
Monday - September 5, 2022
Lecture theme: Urban Air Mobility and U-Space services
8:00 - 8:30 Registration
8.30 - 9:00 Welcome and opening - Luca Iocchi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
9:00 - 10:00 The U-space ConOps for Urban Air Mobility - Andrew Hately, EUROCONTROL, France
10:00 - 11:00 BUBBLES: an approach to the provision of separation services in U-space airspaces - Juan Vicente Balbastre Tejedor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Urban Mobility: models and applications - Gaetano Fusco, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Lunch
15:00 - 17:00 PhD introduction & networking
17:00: welcome reception
Tuesday - September 6, 2022
Lecture theme: Data analysis for Air Traffic Management
9:00 - 10:00 Artificial Intelligence and neuro-cognitive technologies for human augmentation - Włodzisław Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
10:00 - 11:00 Machine learning for trajectory analysis - Lorenzo Brigato, University of Bern, Switzerland
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Data Science and Applied Machine Learning for Air Transport Research - Junzi Sun, Delft University of Technology
Lunch
pm: Practicals
Wednesday - September 7, 2022
Lecture theme: Multi-UAV Planning and Reinforcement Learning
9:00-10:00 Deep Reinforcement Learning - Roberto Capobianco, Sony AI, Zurich
10:00-11:00 Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning - Ramon Dalmau Codina, EUROCONTROL, France
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Decision-making models in multi-agent settings : multi-robot applications case study - Abdel-Illah Mouaddib, University of Caen, France
Lunch
pm: Free time (Participants Rome Visit Tour)
Thursday - September 8, 2022
Lecture theme: Multi-UAV Communication and Control
9:00 - 10:00 Engineering U-Space services using AI: the target level of safety challenge - Henrique Madeira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
10:00 - 11:00 The AI-Dilemma in Self-Driving Cars - Wilfried Steiner, TTTech Labs, Austria
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 UAV-assisted eXtended reality services in 5G/6G networks - Tiziana Cattai and Stefania Colonnese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
pm: Doctoral symposium
pm: social dinner
Friday - September 9, 2022
am: Dissemination and discussion Panel
9:00 - 11:00 Experts panel (moderator: Luca Iocchi)
Juan Vicente Balbastre Tejedor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Giovanni Barraco & Ennio Borgna ENAC - Italian Civil Aviation Authority
Matteo Bruno, Sony CSL Rome, Italy
Marco Ducci, EURO-USC
Giancarlo Ferrara, Andrew Hately & Munish Khurana, EUROCONTROL, France
Daniele Nardi, Sapienza University of Rome, CINI Lab Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, Italy
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Wrap up and coonclusions
Lunch
pm: Networking & closing
ORGANIZATION
Organizing Committee
Luca Iocchi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Juan Vicente Balbastre Tejedor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Joan Vila Carbó, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Henrique Madeira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Andrew Hately, EUROCONTROL, France
Dirk Schaefer, EUROCONTROL, France
Christian Napoli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Local organizers
Nicolo' Brandizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Damiano Brunori, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Contact for information: info@bubbles-project.eu
Venue
Dept. of Computer Control and Management Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome
Via Ariosto 25, Roma, Italy
