# Aerial Robotics Meeting - January 22nd 2026

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/aerial-robotics-meeting-january-22nd-2026/51819>\
**Category:** Aerial Robotics\
**Tags:** wg-aerial-robotics\
**Created:** [January 13, 2026, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/aerial-robotics-meeting-january-22nd-2026/51819 "2026-01-13T20:02:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/aerial-robotics-meeting-january-22nd-2026/51819/1 "2026-01-13T20:02:06Z")

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Time for the first aerial robotics meeting of the year 2026. Oh how time flies ! ✈

**Date/Time** : 2026-01-22T17:00:00Z→2026-01-22T18:00:00Z  
**Meeting link** : [https://meet.google.com/qfa-cqwh-jei](https://meet.google.com/qfa-cqwh-jei)  
(As announced on the [ROS community calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=c_3fc5c4d6ece9d80d49f136c1dcd54d7f44e1acefdbe87228c92ff268e85e2ea0@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Etc/UTC))

Next to an update of the aerial robotics landscape and events, we will have a presentation by [Jacopo Panerati](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacopo-panerati/) from the National Research Council (NRC) Canada to talk about the aerial autonomy stack that he has been developing as part of his work!

**Title** : “aerial-autonomy-stack—a faster-than-real-time, autopilot-agnostic ROS2 framework to simulate and deploy perception-based drones”  
**Project** : [https://github.com/JacopoPan/aerial-autonomy-stack](https://github.com/JacopoPan/aerial-autonomy-stack)

> **[GitHub - JacopoPan/aerial-autonomy-stack: Multi-drone PX4/ArduPilot ROS2 control of quads...](https://github.com/JacopoPan/aerial-autonomy-stack)**
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> Multi-drone PX4/ArduPilot ROS2 control of quads and VTOLs, with YOLO, LiDAR, Dockerized Gym simulation, and JetPack deployment

Mark it in your calendar and hope to see you all there next week!

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**Author:** ![gbiggs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/gbiggs/32/30361_2.png) [@gbiggs](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/gbiggs)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/aerial-robotics-meeting-january-22nd-2026/51819/2 "2026-01-13T23:50:31Z")

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> [@KimMcG](#):
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> Oh how time flies ! ✈

I see what you did there!

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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/aerial-robotics-meeting-january-22nd-2026/51819/3 "2026-01-22T15:46:25Z")

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Here is the agenda for our meeting (in little over an hour). See you there!

> **[rosaerial\_meetingnotes\_agenda\_jan2026 - HackMD](https://hackmd.io/4gF50Mw1SKq-MaiSGppaYA)**

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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/aerial-robotics-meeting-january-22nd-2026/51819/4 "2026-01-23T23:20:53Z")

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[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/2/f/2fadbef1e891437063567292b36765ef7b1e8602.jpeg "01/22/2026 - Aerial Robotics ROS community group meeting") ](https://vimeo.com/1157740186)

[The recording is also available on Vimeo.](https://vimeo.com/1157740186?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci)

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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 9:02am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/aerial-robotics-meeting-january-22nd-2026/51819/5 "2026-01-26T09:02:28Z")

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Thanks @Katherine_Scott !

Here are the notes of the meeting:

> <https://github.com/ROS-Aerial/community/blob/master/meetings/2025/01-22-2026.md>

And I have here a pdf of the slides from Jacopo:

[AAS\_rosaerial\_20260122.pdf](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/uploads/short-url/pqBFsoh4mnN3XZV8OYCWkkYgF3R.pdf) (1.6 MB)