Germany
Max Planck Society (MPG) will be incharge of WP5: Dissemination and Communication. Also, it will be leading all activities related to workshops and summer schools related to aerial robotics.
The goal of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is to 
understand the principles of Perception, Action and Learning in 
autonomous systems that successfully interact with complex environments 
and to use this understanding to design future artificially intelligent 
systems. The Institute studies these principles in biological, 
computational, hybrid, and material systems ranging from nano to macro 
scales. We take a highly interdisciplinary approach that combines 
mathematics, computation, materials science, and biology.
The 
Perceiving Systems Department at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent 
Systems: Light, reflected from surfaces, arriving at the imaging plane 
of a camera, must be interpreted to be useful to a perceiving system. 
This interpretation is a process of inference from ambiguous and 
incomplete measurements using experience and knowledge. The Perceiving 
Systems Department is focused on uncovering the mathematical and 
computational principles underlying this process. This means 
understanding the statistics of the world (its shape, motion, material 
properties, etc.), modeling the imaging process (including optical blur,
 motion blur, noise, discretization), and devising algorithms to convert
 light measurements into information about the 3D structure and motion 
of the world.