The 27th Bristol International UAV Systems Conference will be held on Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 April 2012 in Bristol, United Kingdom.
In keeping with tradition, the Conference will bring industry, researchers, academics and operators together to exchange views, information and experience on the topic of unmanned aircraft systems, their elements and their operation. The Conference will also consider the wider aspect of all unmanned systems technologies.
The theme this year will be Future UAS Technologies. A Call for Papers has been issued and the organisers are looking for papers on disruptive technologies that could well be in the fields of:
- Novel Aerodynamics
- Detect and Avoid
- Data Management
- Communications and Control
- Power Management including Energy Harvesting
A prize will be awarded to the student submitting the best paper under the Student Paper Competition.
The Bristol International Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV) Conference was inaugurated through the initiative of Mr Reg Austin as well as Professor Lew Crabtree and Dr. John Flower of the University of Bristol, with the first Conference being held at the University in September 1979, under the joint sponsorship of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering of the University and the Royal Aeronautical Society.
It was the intention of the Conferences to provide an open forum for the international exchange of views, information and experience on the topic of unmanned air vehicles systems, their elements and their operation. In 1999 the title of the Conferences was changed to the Bristol Unmanned Air Vehicle Systems.
The Bristol UAV Systems Conferences have become established as the international forum for discussion of all aspects of research, development, manufacture and operation of unmanned airborne vehicle systems, both civilian and military. The Conferences were sponsored by the University of Bristol and supported by Cranfield University and the Royal Aeronautical Society, together with civil and military authorities and industry.
In 2011 the University of Bristol declined to organise the 2012 Conference and as a result Bristol Unmanned Systems Conference, a UK registered company limited by guarantee, was formed by members of the Conference Committee to take on the responsibility for the 27th Bristol International UAV Systems Conference.
The Conferences are not-for-profit, thereby keeping fees to a minimum and ensuring accessibility to as large a part of the UAVS community as possible
Source: Press Release