Please note that the schedule is subject to change.

Day 1 – Wednesday, 11 November 2026

from 8:00	Check-In
9:00-9:15	Opening Ceremony
9:15-10:00	Dimitris Perikleous Keynote Speaker	TBA
S1&2. Drone Design, Development, and Communications (Part 1) Chaired by Dimitris Perikleous and Carlos Tavares Calafate
10:00-10:15	Douglas D. Bueno	Aeroelastic Modeling of Flapping Wings to Design Bio-Inspired Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
10:15–10:30	Faysal Fayez Eliyan	Why Drones Fail: A Multidisciplinary Review of UAV Failure Modes, Reliability, Fault Diagnosis, and Intelligent Maintenance
10:30–10:45	Deomits Andrejevs	Development of Urban Laser Communication Algorithm for Moving Objects
10:45–11:00	Patrik Dominik Pördi	From Actuators to Trajectories: An Open-Source PX4–ROS 2 Architecture for UAV Autonomy
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break & Poster Session A
S1&2. Drone Design, Development, and Communications (Part 2) Chaired by Dimitris Perikleous and Carlos Tavares Calafate
11:30–11:45	Davide Spitaleri	Nonlinear Control and State Estimation for a Spherical Robot with Omnidirectional Hybrid Mobility
11:45–12:00	Francisco Jesus Rodriguez Huiman	Design and Development of a Miniaturized, Low-Cost Quadcopter Platform for Swarm-Based Coverage and Search Missions
12:00–12:15	Brais Iglesias Otero	5G-Enabled UAV Control Applications: Experimental Evaluation of Network and Computing Architectures
12:15–12:45	Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate Invited Speaker	TBA
12:45-14:15	Lunch Break & Poster Session A
S3. Guidance, Navigation, and Control Chaired by Kimon P. Valavanis
14:15–14:30	Charis Ntakolia	Uncertainty-Aware Adaptive Multi-Objective UAV Path Planning via Fuzzy Priority Adaptation and Preference-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
14:30–14:45	Immacolata Notaro	Decentralized Model Predictive Control for Quadrotor Formations with Reactive Collision Avoidance
14:45–15:00	Zhenbo Wang	Online Model Identification and Sequential Convex Programming for Drone Landing Trajectory Optimization
15:00–15:15	Vardan Rafik Sahakyan	Visual Relative Localization for GNSS-Free Control of UAV Swarm
15:15–15:30	Kumater Peter Ter	Towards Offshore Recovery: Tether Force Sensing for Admittance Guided UAV Landing
15:30–15:45	Hadi Fares	Energy-Budgeted UAV Swarm Coverage of Time-Varying Densities: Instantaneous Guarantees, Runtime Certificates, and What Downwash Costs Them
15:45–16:00	Alexandre Athayde	Towards Plug-and-Fly Quadrotors: Minimal Identification and Automatic Tuning with Incremental-Based Flight Control
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break & Poster Session A
S4. Artificial Intelligence Applications for Drones (Part 1) Chaired by Fabio Remondino
16:30–17:00	Fabio Remondino Invited Speaker	TBA
17:00–17:15	Arkadiusz Mariusz Zurek	Artificial Intelligence as an Enabler of Operational Resilience in Autonomous UAV-AutoID Systems Operating in Dynamic Indoor Environments
17:15–17:30	Hannes Braßel	From Object Detection to Conflict Assessment: A Safety-Oriented Uncertainty Framework for Monocular UAS Detect-and-Avoid
at 19:30	Conference Dinner (at the historic 7 Portes Restaurant in Barcelona)

Day 2 – Thursday, 12 November 2026

from 8:00	Check-In
9:00–9:45	Marc Beltran Keynote Speaker	From Lab to Sky: Why Certification Is the Missing Link Between Drone Research and Real-World Impact
S4. Artificial Intelligence Applications for Drones (Part 2) Chaired by Fabio Remondino
9:45–10:00	Beatriu Tort	Automatic Aerial Identification Model for Baleen Whales Using Drones
10:00–10:15	Ilias Panagiotopoulos	A Cognitive Framework for Dynamic Level-of-Autonomy Selection in Autonomous UAV Missions
10:15–10:30	Hugo Yañez-Badillo	Physics-Informed Predictive Control for a Fixed-Wing UAS under Uncertain Flight Dynamics
10:30–10:45	Aissam Salah	Development and Evaluation of an Edge AI System for Real-Time UAV-Based Photovoltaic Thermal Inspection
10:45–11:15	Coffee Break & Poster Session B
S4. Artificial Intelligence Applications for Drones (Part 3) Chaired by Fabio Remondino
11:15–11:30	Alejandro Román	AI-Driven Analysis of Drone Imagery for Flash Flood Damage Assessment
11:30–11:45	Alejandro Jarabo-Peñas	Set the Rules, React to Change: Extending Natural-Language Drone-Swarm Coordination with Constraints, Events, and Operational Knowledge
11:45–12:00	Jose Luis Segundo Manayay	Neural Aerodynamic Modeling and Reinforcement Learning Flight Control for Hexacopters Operating in Severe Thermal Turbulence
S5. Drones in Rangelands, Agriculture, and Forestry (Part 1) Chaired by Humberto Perotto
12:00–12:15	Jamal-Eddine Ouzemou	UAV-Based Forward Modeling of Bare-Soil Reflectance in Saline Drylands: Integrating DART-Lux and the Hapke Model
12:15–12:30	Joyce Mongai Chindong	Data-Efficient Field-Scale Mapping of Soil Salinity and Its Spatial Controls Using UAV Multispectral Imagery, Proximal Sensing, and Interpretable Machine Learning
12:30–12:45	Henrik Hesse	From Fire Detection to Forest Recovery: An Integrated UAV-IoT System for Wildfire Monitoring and Reforestation
12:45–14:30	Group Photo Lunch Break & Poster Session B
S5. Drones in Rangelands, Agriculture, and Forestry (Part 2) Chaired by Humberto Perotto
14:30–15:00	Ricardo Díaz-Delgado Invited Speaker	TBA
15:00–15:15	Florian Thürkow	Closing the Granularity Gap: A Multi-Sensor UAV Framework for Detecting Agronomic and Ecological Microstructures in Agricultural Landscapes
15:15–15:30	Paawan Kumar	Future Agri 2.0: A Closed-Loop Digital Twin Framework for AI-Enabled Autonomous Agricultural Drone Operations
15:30–15:45	Mbulisi Sibanda	Estimating Fractional Cover of Taro Crops Across Different Phenological Stages Using Unmanned Aerial Remote-Sensed Data in a Typical Smallholder Cropland of Southern Africa
15:45–16:00	Navid Shaghaghi	GrapeSense-VISION: Vineyard Intelligence System for Interactive Observation and Navigation using Drone-Based Deep Learning
16:00–16:30	Coffee Break & Poster Session B
S7. Drones in Geospatial Industry Chaired by Francesco Nex
16:30–17:00	Francesco Nex Invited Speaker	TBA
17:00–17:15	Jorge Manuel Eslava-Bautista	From UAV Data Acquisition to Decision-Led Geospatial Monitoring: Stakeholder Perspectives from Scottish Peatland Restoration
17:15–17:30	Pieter-Jan Baeck	Drone-Based Maritime Geospatial Intelligence: Automated Vessel Detection, Positioning and Characterization
17:30–17:45	Israel Oluwaseun Taiwo	An Explainable Boundary Confidence Index (EBCI) for Trustworthy AI-Assisted Cadastral Boundary Extraction from Drone Orthophotos
17:45–18:00	Francisco Pérez Moreno	Developing Skills for Innovative Air Mobility: The Spanish CoVE Roadmap within the AIRMOB European Transformation Framework

Day 3 – Friday, 13 November 2026

from 8:00	Check-In
9:00–9:45	Beatriz Rodríguez Romero Keynote Speaker	TBA
S6. Drones in Security and Defense Chaired by Diego González-Aguilera
9:45–10:00	Vahagn Gevorg Melkonyan	Vision-Based Autonomous UAV Interceptor for Border and Air Defense Applications
10:00–10:15	Fabrice Saffre	Attention Focusing and Division of Labour in Swarm Warfare
10:15–10:30	Serge Chaumette	Drones and Drone Swarms: Key Players in Securing Critical Infrastructures
10:30–10:45	Hanno Hildmann	Operational and Practical Insights into the Use of Drones and UxVs in Conflicts
10:45–11:00	Barış Ünver	Pilot as a Module: A 22-g, 6-W Edge-AI Perception and Control Payload for Small UAVs
11:00–11:30	Coffee Break
S8. Emerging Applications of Drones Chaired by Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez
11:30–11:45	Sumit Aggarwal	Scaling Drone-Enabled Tuberculosis Diagnostics in Rural India: Operational Experience from the ICMR i-DRONE Initiative
11:45–12:00	Alejandro Mañas García	Cross-Domain Digital Twins in Maritime Archaeology: A Multi-Platform (UAS–USV–AUV) and Multi-Sensor Approach for Land-to-Sea Archaeological Continuity
12:00–12:15	Hasan Bilgehan Makineci	Using an AI-Powered Decision Support Algorithm for Underground Monitoring with UAV-Integrated GPR
12:15–12:30	Tommaso Mainiero	Multi-Temporal UAV Monitoring of the Rutor Glacier: Five Years of High-Resolution Change Analysis
12:30–12:45	Alexander Parshin	Forward and Inverse Modeling of Semi-Aerial UAV-Based Transient Electromagnetic Prospecting Technology Data Using Open Libraries
12:45–13:00	Esther Nistal Cabañas	AIRMOB Spanish Cluster: Shaping IAM Education to Europe and Spain
13:00–13:30	Belén Riveiro Rodríguez Invited Speaker	TBA
13:30-13:45	Closing & Awards Ceremony