Blogs

DroneCon 2014 is now underway at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Although it's not live-streamed, the videos will be on YouTube in a few days. Here's the order of events. 

PROGRAM

9:00-9:25 Chris Anderson, CEO 3D Robotics

State of the Union

9:25-9:45 Randy Mackay, Arducopter Lead Developer

Arducopter overview

9:45-10:05 Kevin Hester, Head of Platform Engineering 3D Robotics

Dronehub API overview

10:05-10:25 Doug Weibel, Aerospace Engineering Science University of Colorado at Boulder

Introduction to the Extended Kalman Filter

10:25-10:40 Leonard Hall, Arducopter Developer

Autotuning on Arducopter

10:40-11:00 Coffee

11:00-11:20 Fergus Noble, CTO Swiftnav

Introduction to Differential GPS

11:20-11:40 Jonathan Challenger

Advancements in magnetometer calibration and compensation

11:40-12:00 Dr. Eric Frew, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder

Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Communication and Atmospheric Sensing Missions

12:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:25 Kevin Hester, Head of Platform Engineering

Dronehub API workshop

2:25-2:45 Jono Millin, Co-founder Drone Deploy

More API

2:45-3:05 Robert Lefebvre, Traditional Helicopter Lead Developer

Introduction to Traditional Helicopter dynamics

3:05-3:25 Chris Miser, Founder Falcon UAV

Anti poaching UAV applications

3:25-3:45 Daniel McKinnon, Co-Founder, Agribotix

UAVs in Agriculture: What do farmers really want?

3:45-4:05 Jamie Mercado, CTO Droidika

Comparison of a conventional survey vs a UAV based survey on an urban setting

4:05-4:25 Danny Coolahan, Cinematographer, Three Legged Lab

Iris in the wild

4:25-5:00 Andrew Tridgell, Arduplane Lead Developer

Keynote