Newsletter Q2 2019
Meetings and events
1- The project "SKYNET - Autonomous System of Prevention and Control" was selected for an interview
with the jury on Monday, June 10, 2019, at the headquarters of the Ministry of National Education, Vocational
Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research in the framework of the 6th edition of the Competitiveness
Prize, University-Business Partnership Award (PC / PPUE)
2- We have undertaken mobility for training in the ERASMUS + International Credit Mobility framework
program from 22/04/2019 until 26/04/2019 at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid. During the mobility, we had
several meetings with members of GIAA (Colmenarejo) and PLG (Leganés) groups. We participated in several
research meetings and delivered two talks:
Lectures of 1 hour, delivered in Colmenarejo, 25/04/2019, and Leganés, 04/26/2019
"SKYNET" Autonomous system of prevention and control.
Flying Labs and the Robotics for the Benefit of All proposal project related to it
Coordinating talks for developing the Flying Labs Node in UC3M, skype meeting with Flying Labs
coordinator, Patrick Meier, and interested participants in GIAA, PLG, ISLab research groups. 04/24/2019
Meeting on Applications of AI / technical planning in drone missions I. PLG, Leganés, 22/04/2019
Meeting for closing and recommendations for collaboration. PLG, Leganés, 04/25/2019
Meeting on Applications of AI / deep learning techniques for image recognition. GIAA, Colmenarejo,
24/04/2019
Meeting on Applications of drone control systems and simulation tools. GIAA, Colmenarejo, 23/04/2019
Meeting for closing and recommendations for collaboration. GIAA, Leganés, 04/26/2019
Key Achievement
QGroundControl development work.
Jamal Berrich, Morocco Flying Labs Lead Coordinator succesfully completed the
online Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority Approved Global Drone Solutions
Remote Pilote License (RePL)

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1-The IOM project in Niger has just
been launched and is broken down into 3
phases. The goals of the project are:
Monitor three SAR (Search and
Rescue) hub areas to identify paths
used by the migrants, and define the
hotspots' ideal positions.
Analyze the activities in the identified
hotspots, and proceed to a counting of
migration population that are passing
by the area.
Perform searches for rescue missions
to support people in need.
Currently, Youness is preparing the
Albtaross drone to perform missions in
the Dirkou area.
2-We are continuing our work in the
FishGuard project in Sychelles and
currently we are developing an extension
of the QGroundControl software to
integrate satellite communication.
Phd Students pilot training in Ain-Sfa area
Morocco Flying Labs talk about Skynet project and Flying Labs eco system
1- Deep Learning training was organized
for the benefit of LSE2I laboratory
members on Friday, March 8th. The aim
was to introduce the notion of deep
learning as well as its areas of application.
2- Local training for doctoral students
in the preparation and piloting of a drone
was held on May 18th in Ain-Sfa area.
Trainings
Ongoing projects
QGroundControl custom development for FishGuard project

Newsletter Q1 2019
Jia'18: 2018 Artificial intelligence day Projects
Artificial Intelligence seems to be acclaimed as the
technological revolution of the day; the one to upset the world
economy. Nevertheless, only 10% of the $16 000 billion
generated by artificial intelligence to the world economy in 2030
will go to the countries of the South according to IDRC report
published on June 14, 2018. (https://www.idrc.ca/en).
Morocco Flying Labs participated in JIA'18: 2018 Artificial
Intelligence Day on 17th November, 2018 with the participation
of various experts and researchers working in AI field.
The main objectives of the day were:
1- Spotlight on AI projects;
2- Discuss and evaluate the impact of AI and its applications on
the development of Southern countries and in particular
Morocco;
3- Initiate projects and partnerships in the field of AI.
Key Achievement
Artificial Intelligence Day
Scientific publication: Article 1 is about Air surveillance
planning approach for large areas and Article 2 is about
Detection Process of Ships in Aerial Imagery Using Two
Convnets.
Morocco Flying Labs is currently
working on the following projects:
1-SKYNET project:
Our SKYNET project in partnership
with our industrial Partner ATLAN
Space aims at applying Artificial
Intelligence technology on drones for
institutions to prevent and make
informed decisions regarding
deforestation, floods and
environmental crimes such as illegal
exploitation of natural resources and
forest fires.
2- Fishguard project in
Seychelles: We provide support for
ATLAN Space in the project
FishGuard. The project involves the
implementation of a solution to
identify and reduce IUU fishing
(illegal, unreported, unregulated)
through the detection of fishing
vessels smuggled using intelligent
drone technology.
3- Flight simulator : We are
working at the creation of drone
simulator based on AirSim for our
technology
https://github.com/Microsoft/AirSim.
We need to develop a new drones
simulation environment to be able to
test and deploy the SKYNET project.

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4- Our Flying Labs is planning to
organize International workshop
on Robotics & Artificial
Intelligence and their Applications
(RAIA'19) in September, 2019.
This workshop will discuss the
results of research in robotics and
artificial intelligence and their
applications.
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Programme de Formation Coaching Territorial 2018
The 8th Africities Summit, Marrakech 2018
We are also working on the following
project proposals:
1- IOM Niger proposal project for
migrants search and rescue
operations
2- UNICEF proposal project for
refugees save operations
3- Preparing a proposal innovation
project in the context of leading
house for MENA region - Switzerland
Upcoming projects
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National School of Applied
Sciences Oujda
ENSAO, BP 669, Oujda 60000,
Morocco
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JIA'18: 2018 Artificial Intelligence Day