NTNU Researchers Present Unified Autonomy Stack for Robots on May 28

The ROS Aerial Robotics community working group hosts its next meeting on May 28, 2026, from 17:00 to 18:00 UTC, featuring a keynote by researchers Mihir Dharmadhikari and Kostas Alexis from the Autonomous Robots Lab at NTNU. Their presentation, 'The Unified Autonomy Stack – Generalizable Autonomy across Robot Morphologies,' addresses a long-standing challenge in robotics: building a single autonomy framework that seamlessly adapts to vastly different robot designs—from multirotors and fixed-wing drones to ground rovers and underwater vehicles.

The talk will showcase how their stack uses shared perception, planning, and control modules that generalize across morphologies without per-robot retraining. Attendees will learn about the architecture, key algorithms, and real-world flight test results. The team has open-sourced their work on GitHub, making it accessible for the ROS community. This event is part of a recurring series that tracks the latest in aerial robotics research, tools, and standards. Registration is free via the Google Meet link provided in the announcement.