My current research focuses on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the large scale atmospheric monitoring of carbon capture and and storage (CCS) sites. My contributions to this field are

• an autopilot system for helicopter-based UAVs:
  Focus on sensor flexibility, low costs, and reliability.


• an acoustic localization approach:
  Gain 3D position from a 2D sensor array, can also be used for speaker localization.


• an user interface framework:
  Management of numerous and diverse sensors and robot systems, integrated solution for the data analysis of the gained measurements.

Recent publications:

• Florian Poppa, Uwe Zimmer, Andrew Feitz, Henry Berko
  Mobile Aerial CO2 Sensing (Poster)
  International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEAGHG) Monitoring Network and Environmental Research Network Combined Meeting, Canberra, Australia, August 2013


• Florian Poppa, Uwe Zimmer, Andrew Feitz, Henry Berko
  Development of a Carbon Dioxide Monitoring Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
  Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring (WREM) at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference 2013, Berlin, Germany, June 2013


• Florian Poppa, Uwe Zimmer
  RobotUI - A Software Architecture for Modular Robotics User Interface Frameworks
  Proceedings IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 2012