Keynote: Up, Up, and Away: Adventures in Aerial Robotics

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A practical roadmap for warehouse drone deployment that names the stack, the failure mode, and the results: uses PX4 autopilot (NuttX RTOS, BSD‑3, 14+ years) for real‑time control, ROS/ROS2 for high‑level autonomy, OpenCV for vision, and O3DE for photorealistic simulation. A rotated sensor causes a crash in an unrehearsed demo, fixed after log analysis and simulation testing. Real deployments report jump from 80% to 99% inventory accuracy, 20× faster cycle counting and ~10× labor efficiency gains.

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1. 0:00Aerial robotics keynote
2. 1:25Speaker backgrounds
3. 2:55Robot types and uses
4. 3:39Mary’s warehouse challenge
5. 4:42PX4 and ROS 2 for autonomy
6. 6:09Dev kit and vision setup
7. 7:32DevOps for robotics
8. 8:34First drone flight test
9. 9:39Debugging drone crash
10. 10:42Robotic simulation importance
11. 12:07Virtual warehouse in O3DE
12. 12:49Real-world drone test
13. 13:53Inventory automation case study
14. 14:55Aerial robotics interest group
15. 15:39Aerobotics community resources
16. 16:21Upcoming events and closing

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