# ROS Aerial Robotics Community Interest Group


## Meeting Notes - November 20th, 2025

Forum Post: https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/aerial-robotics-meeting-november-20th-2025/50933

**Hosts**
* Kimberly McGuire
* Ramón Roche

**Attendees**
* Aatmadeep Aarya
* Rick Hernandez
* Carson Hake
* [fill in your name here]
* _About 9 people showed for the meeting_

## Agenda

* Announcements
* Events
* Latest developments
* Presentation
* Discussion (if time)
* Announcement next meeting'

## Announcements

No more Aerial Robotics channel on Open Robotics Discord!

We have a channel on [Open Robotics Zulip](https://openrobotics.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/526057-Aerial-Robotics) now!

https://openrobotics.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/526057-Aerial-Robotics

## Events (past and future)

### Past

* [IROS 2025](http://www.iros25.org/)
* [Aerial Manipulation workshop](https://sites.google.com/view/iros2025-aerialrobot-workshop/home)
* [ROSCon 2025](https://roscon.ros.org/2025/)
* [PX4 - ROS workshop](https://github.com/Dronecode/roscon-25-workshop)
* Talks should be available before December 4th?
* [PX4 Summit](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/px4-developer-summit/)
* All talks were recorded and can be found in the [schedule](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/px4-developer-summit/program/schedule/)

### Future

* **FOSDEM 2026** 31th Jan + 1th Feb
* Drone code meetup!
* https://robotics-devroom.github.io/cfp/fosdem26

More aerial related events on the [aerial robotics landscape](https://ros-aerial.github.io/aerial_robotic_landscape/events/)

## New projects within the aerial robotics landscape

### Simulation

* [Colosseum](https://codexlabsllc.github.io/Colosseum/) (fork of AirSim)
* [PX4 Simulink SITL](https://optim.aero/px4silsimulink.html)

### Datasets

* [TII Drone Racing datasset](https://github.com/tii-racing/drone-racing-dataset)

Add any handy Aerial Robotics related projects to [aerial robotics landscape](https://ros-aerial.github.io/aerial_robotic_landscape/)

## Presentation

* PX4 Simulation survey results, by Kim!

## Discussion

* About the simulation survey results

## Next meeting

18th of December - Christmassy themed!

Add the [ROS community event calendar ](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=c_[e-mail]&ctz=UTC)to your calendar to see our planned meetings.
We also post an announcement [Aerial Vehicles category](https://discourse.ros.org/c/aerial-vehicles/14) on ROS discourse with the [wg-aerial-robotics tag](https://discourse.ros.org/tag/wg-aerial-robotics) about one week before the meeting starts.

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### Want to nominate someone/yourself for a presentation?

Send us a message on the #aerial-robotics channel channel (link below) we are always looking for cool open source projects to spotlight.

**👉 Reach out to Kim / Ramón.**

### Handy Links
* [ROS Discourse wg-aerial](https://discourse.ros.org/tag/wg-aerial-robotics)
* [ROS Aerial Community Github](https://github.com/ROS-Aerial)
* [#aerial-robotics Zulip Channel (Open Robotics Server)](https://openrobotics.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/526057-Aerial-Robotics)
* [Aerial Robotic Landscape](https://ros-aerial.github.io/aerial_robotic_landscape/)