{"id":3822,"date":"2024-11-12T06:36:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/?page_id=3822"},"modified":"2024-11-12T06:42:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:42:14","slug":"keynote-talk-pauline-pounds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/keynote-talk-pauline-pounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote talk: Pauline Pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What&#8217;s the Problem?\u00a0 Challenges in Multirotor Research<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/wp-content\/uploads\/DrPaulinePounds_highres-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3824\" width=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/wp-content\/uploads\/DrPaulinePounds_highres-1-scaled.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/wp-content\/uploads\/DrPaulinePounds_highres-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: revert;\">Dr. Pauline Pounds<br \/><\/strong>Professor of Mechatronics &#8211; University of Queensland<br \/>President of Australian Robotics and Automation Association<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<br \/><\/strong>Ever since their inception, quadrotors and multirotors have posed interesting technical challenges for research engineers across diverse domains such as control theory, aerodynamics, power systems, and more.\u00a0 Today, these platforms have migrated from laboratory curiosity to invaluable tool, but there is still work to be done.\u00a0 This talk looks at the challenges of making multirotors fly, problems solved and problems still to come.\u00a0 How do we squeeze the most of out small rotorcraft, and where could similar thinking take us in the future?<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography of the speaker<br \/><\/strong>Professor Pauline Pounds is Professor of Mechatronics at the University of Queensland.\u00a0 She is an aerial robotics researcher, engineer, and serial entrepreneur.\u00a0 She completed her undergraduate in systems engineering in 2002 and PhD in robotics at the Australian National University in 2008.\u00a0 She completed a post-doc at Yale in 2011 before taking a faculty position at UQ in 2012. She specialises in unmanned aerial vehicle dynamics, propulsion, stability and control, with recent advances in legged locomotion and sensor module technology.\u00a0 She is a 2013 ARC DECRA Fellow, 2020 TASDCRC Fellow, 2015 Queensland Science Young Tall Poppy winner, and 2020 ATSE Batterham Medal winner.\u00a0 She is President of the Australian Robotics and Automation Association and was Senior Editor for RAS IEEE Robotics and Automation-Letters in Aerial and Field Robotics 2021-2023.\u00a0 She has six start-up companies; over 30 patents licensed to industry; and an Erdos Number of 5.\u00a0 She is a founding member of Marko&#8217;s Legacy, a charitable organisation supporting the medical costs of people in need.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the Problem?\u00a0 Challenges in Multirotor Research Dr. Pauline PoundsProfessor of Mechatronics &#8211; University of QueenslandPresident of Australian Robotics and Automation Association \u00a0 AbstractEver since their inception, quadrotors and multirotors have posed interesting technical challenges for research engineers across diverse domains such as control theory, aerodynamics, power systems, and more.\u00a0 Today, these platforms have migrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3822\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2025_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}