Seventh Master Trainer Program

Technology Specific Work Theme: Allied UAS Technologies

Focus: Vision-based Navigation for UAS

• Dates: 26th – 30th October 2026
• Venue: A3-117 Hall, Vindhya Building, IIITH Campus
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• Registration Closes: 22nd October 2026
• Registration Fee: To be paid at the venue on 26th October 2026

About the Program

IIIT Hyderabad is identified as one of the Resource Centers (RC) for the MeitY approved project entitled “Capacity building for human resource development in Unmanned Aircraft System (Drone and related Technology)”. As part of this initiative, the Robotics Research Center (RRC), IIIT Hyderabad is organizing the Seventh Master Trainer Program (MTP) from 26th to 30th October 2026. The program is organized under the Technology Specific Work Theme “Allied UAS Technologies”, with focus on Vision-based Navigation for UAS.

Program Topics

The five-day program will cover topics from:

• Foundations of Computer Vision
• Motion Planning and Physical AI
• Topographic Mapping and Path Planning
• Vision-Action Policies for Navigation
• Interpretable Robot Learning for Navigation
• Integration of Classical Robotics with Modern AI
• Applications of Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
• Implementation of Autonomous Navigation for UAS

Detailed Schedule

Speakers

Dr Girish Varma	Prof. K. Madhava Krishna	Dr. Spandan Roy	Dr. Antony Thomas	Dr. Sourav Garg	Dr. Harikumar Kandath
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Organized by Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad
Funded by MeitY, Government of India