2025 11th Asian Australian Rotorcraft Forum (ARF)

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The 11th Asian Australian Rotorcraft Forum is being jointly organized by the Vertical Flight Society's Australia Chapter and Founding India Chapter, with the support of VFS' educational members, Melbourne University and Sydney University.It will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India on November 24-27 2025. 

ARF Establishment

The Asian Australian Rotorcraft (ARF) Forum was established by the joint initiative of Arvind Sinha (Australia), Pinqi Xia (China), Prashant Pawar (India), Yasutada Tanabe (Japan) and Duck Joo Lee (South Korea). The South Korea Chapter organized a meeting in Busan in 2011 to deliberate on the way forward. This resulted in convening the Inaugural ARF-1  on February 12-15, 2012, which featured 3 Special Session Presentations, 57 Paper Presentations and 11 regional representatives.

The ARF countries commenced with Australia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea, under the support of the local Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Chapters. Singapore joined a few years later, followed by Turkey's participation.

ARF Executive Committee

Today, the ARF Executive Committee Country Representatives are Arvind Sinha (Australia), Pinqi Xia (China), Bharat Sharma (India), Yasutada Tanabe (Japan), G Kalidas (Singapore), Sung Nam Jung (South Korea) and Alper Ezertaş (Turkey).

The ARF Conference Series

This is an annual rotational forum held in the countries that are part of ARF. The ARF Series has gone through one rotation and is now on the second round as follows: a) ARF-1 South Korea, 12-15 Feb 2012; b) ARF-2 China, 8-11 Sep 2013; c) ARF-3 Australia, 18-19 Dec 2014; d) ARF-4 India, 16-18 Nov 2015; e) ARF-5 Singapore 17-18 Nov 2016; f) ARF-6 Japan 6-7 Nov 2017; g) ARF-7 South Korea, 30 Oct-1 Nov 2018 ; h) ARF-8 Turkey, 30 Oct-2 Nov 1019; i) ARF-9 China, 6-8 Nov 2023; j) ARF-10 Australia 7-8 Nov 2024 and ARF-11 India 26-27 Nov 2025.

ARF 11 in India

It will be hosted by Indian Institute of Technology Madras at Chennai, in Southern India. This year's ARF presentations program will comprise of ‘Keynote and Referred Paper Presentations’ and a ‘Banquet and Awards Evening’. The Presentation Sessions will cover the five prime subdisciplines of Aerospace specific to Rotorcraft, both Crewed and Uncrewed: Aerodynamics, Structures & Materials, Propulsion, Systems and Design, including sessions on Dynamics and Control, Simulation and Modelling, Autonomy and so on, as applied to rotorcraft only.

Program and Tour Structure

Monday, Nov. 25: Launch of VFS India Chapter and ARF Welcome Evening

Tuesday, Nov. 26: Keynote and Paper Presentations, Banquet and Awards Evening

Wednesday, Nov. 27: Keynote and Paper Presentations and ARF 11 India Handover to ARF 12 Japan

Thursday, Nov. 28: Tour of IIT Madras Research Park and Local Tourist Spots

Registration:

Chair: Arvind Sinha
Vice Chair: Bharat Sharma
Deputy Chair: TBA
Technical Chair: TBA
Program Chair: TBA

Conference Support

Schedule

Abstract Submission Period: 01 Feb–15 Jun 2025 
Abstract Selection and Paper Submission for Review: 15 Jul–15 Aug 2025
Paper Review Report to Authors: 15 Sep 2025
Final Paper Submission: 15 Oct 2025
Conference: 24–27 Nov 2025

Submit your Paper

ARF Paper Template

Please refer to the Paper Template above for formatting and requirements. Use the passcode in the Call for Abstracts to submit via the uploader on this page.

Venue

The Conference, Banquet and Awards will be held at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in Chennai, India.