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IIT Madras Announces Five-Day Hands-On Swarm Drone Technology Training
IIT Madras is planning a five-day programme about groups of drones working together.
It will take place from October 12 to 16, 2026.
Students and other interested participants can learn how drones fly, communicate and make decisions.
They will study how several drones can coordinate as a team.
The programme will include hands-on activities such as building quadcopters.
Participants will also practise planning missions, using simulations and flying drones.
The event will include industry interaction and a visit to a drone technology company.
Applications are due by October 5, 2026.
IIT Madras will hold a five-day Swarm Drone Technology symposium from October 12 to 16, 2026.
The programme will cover swarm intelligence, multi-UAV coordination, autonomous navigation, distributed control and decision-making.
Participants will receive practical training in quadcopter assembly, mission planning, simulation and flying.
The symposium is organised by IIT Madras’s Department of Aerospace Engineering under the SwaYaan initiative.
Applications must be submitted by October 5, 2026; queries can be sent to [email protected].
- Who
- IIT Madras’s Department of Aerospace Engineering is organising the programme for interested participants.
- What
- A five-day symposium offering technical and hands-on training in swarm drone technology.
- Where
- IIT Madras.
- When
- The symposium will run from October 12 to 16, 2026; applications are due by October 5, 2026.
- Why
- To examine coordinated drone systems and support India’s unmanned aircraft systems and drone ecosystem through the SwaYaan initiative.
Key facts
- Event
- Swarm Drone Technology symposium
- Dates
- October 12–16, 2026
- Application deadline
- October 5, 2026
- Organiser
- Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras
- Practical activities
- Quadcopter assembly, mission planning, drone simulation and flying
- Programme initiative
- SwaYaan, a national initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- Contact
- [email protected]
Quotes
IIT Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, the organising institute
“The five-day programme will combine technical learning with hands-on experience, covering drone fundamentals, autonomy and control, communication and multi-agent systems, swarm algorithms and emerging drone technologies.”
NDTV
“Participants will also get practical exposure through quadcopter assembly, mission planning, drone simulation and flying, along with industry interaction and a visit to a drone technology company.”
NDTV
Sources
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