SISL Meeting 11/13 | Eric Watson (Zipline) - Integrating Autonomous Drones into the Airspace

Dear Students,

SISL will host Eric Watson at their lab meeting on Monday, 11/13 at 10-11am PT. The meeting will take place in Durand 450, with a Zoom option available (Link, Meeting ID: 923 0208 8638, Passcode: 087459).

In this meeting, Eric will give a talk on "Integrating Autonomous Drones into the Airspace." Details are below.

Hope to see you in the meeting!---

Presenter: Eric Watson

Title: Integrating Autonomous Drones into the Airspace

Abstract: Zipline's Head of Certification and Airspace Integration, Eric Watson, will share his experience working to integrate autonomous flying robots safely and efficiently into the airspace in the US and beyond. Eric will kick things off covering his career trajectory from Aerospace Engineering graduate student to Systems Engineer to startup co-founder to then wearing many hats over his 7 years at Zipline. He will dive into systems optimization to meet customer needs, key technical challenges including current challenges, tenets for design of autonomous systems, the importance of investing in validation, and lessons learned in certification of autonomous systems. 

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Mansur Arief (he/him)

Postdoc, Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab