CALL FOR PAPERS
IMAV 2025: 16th INTERNATIONAL MICRO AIR VEHICLE CONFERENCE
The International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competitions (IMAV) is a yearly event that aims at fostering key technologies for the development of micro-air vehicles. Since early editions, the IMAV has offered a pioneer event format where competitions are carried out alongside a two-day conference. Highly recognized members of the community are invited to deliver keynotes, while academics are invited to submit research and technical papers. After a peer-reviewed process, accepted papers are presented during the conference.
Important Dates
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This edition of the IMAV will be held in the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) located in the city of San Andres Cholula, in the State of Puebla, México. The conference will take place from the 3rd to 7th of November, 2025.
Topics for scientific and technical papers include, but are not limited to:
- Low Reynolds number aerodynamics
- Unsteady aerodynamics
- Smart morphing materials
- Propulsion set and new energy sources
- Autonomous navigation
- Autonomous Drone Racing
- Cooperation and formation flight
- Control theory and state estimation
- Computer vision for MAVs
- Sense & avoid Integration of UAVs in airspace
- Reconfiguration in unpredicted events
- New MAV architectures
- Characterization of noise emission for MAVs
- Low noise and noise mitigation
Dedicated applicative sessions will be set up for the following topics:
- Atmospheric research
- Archaeological research
- Search and rescue operations
- Industrial inspection
- Agriculture & environment
- Artificial Intelligence for MAVs
- Ethics & Regulations
- Societal impact of MAVs
Submission Guidelines
Authors are encouraged to present research related to MAVs, from fundamental knowledge in disciplinary topics to cross-disciplinary technological innovation and the use of MAVs to other research fields. Dedicated applicative sessions will be set up.
Scientific and technical sessions will be organized. The authors will have 20 minutes to present their work, respectively. Technical papers and Scientific papers will be submitted as draft papers. Papers should have a minimum of 6 pages. 2 extra pages will be allowed for a maximum number of 8 pages.
Authors must use the conference template, which can be downloaded from the conference website at: Paper submission
Authors are encouraged to include their ORCIDs in their papers. The papers should be submitted electronically through the Microsoft CMT
Author Fees
For registration instructions, please check Registration instructions.
EARLY (Before September 30, 2025)
students
$300 USD
non-students
$600 USD
Max. Number of pages
6
REGULAR (After September 30, 2025)
students
$400 USD
non-students
$700 USD
Max. Number of pages
6
EXTRA FEE
EXTRA PAGE
$50 USD
Max. 2 pages
Special Issues
Based on the quality of the papers and after a thorough evaluation by the IMAV’s international committee, selected papers and Finalist to the “Best Conference Paper Award” will be offered to be published in one of the following two Journals:
- International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles (note that the Article Processing Charges will be waived).
- Unmanned Systems
Proceedings
The proceedings of the conference will only be available on-line with free access for anybody.
Committees
International Program Committee
- Bart Remes, TU Delft, The Netherlands
- Ben M. Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- Christophe De Wagter, TU Delft, The Netherlands
- Dieter Moormann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Gautier Hattenberger, ENAC, Toulouse, France
- Guido de Croon, TU Delft, The Netherlands
- Hector Garcia De Marina, U.C.M., Granada, Spain
- Jean-Marc Moschetta, ISAE-SUPAERO, France
- Jose Martinez-Carranza, INAOE, Puebla, México
- Leandro Lustosa, ISAE-SUPAERO, France
- Mohamed Abdulghani, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- Murat Bronz, ENAC, Toulouse, France
- Pascual Campoy, U.P.M., Madrid, Spain
- Renaud Kiefer, INSA, Strasbourg, France
- Simon Watkins, RMIT University, Australia
- Thipyopas Chinnapat, Kasetsart University, Thailand
- Tom Richardson, Univ. of Bristol, UK
General Chair
Jose Martinez-Carranza
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE)
Program Chair
Hugo Rodríguez-Cortés
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV)
Conference Chair
Z. Jezabel Guzmán Zavaleta
Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP)
Venue
This year, the IMAV 2025 conference will be hosted at UDLAP’s Auditorium Guillermo and Sofia Jenkinns.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to hrodriguez@cinvestav.mx
Additional Information
You can find more information in the official IMAV2025 website and in the international IMAV website: