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==Organizers==

Alessandro Saffiotti (AASS Mobile Robotics Lab, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden)

Pedro Lima (Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal)

==Objectives==

* Join together some of the top European experts in Cooperative Robotics, keeping the meetings that were regularly organized under the former [http://www.aass.oru.se/Agora/EuronCoop/ EURON Cooperative Robotics SIG], now that the EURON NoE is over.

* Discuss and prepare project proposals to submit to FP7 4th Call on Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics.

==Dates==

24-26 October 2008

==Location==

Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Torre Norte, 7th floor (ISR meeting room, call 218418295) – tall tower closest to IST entrance by Av. António José de Almeida. Directions on a [[Media:CoopRobMap.png|map]] (approximately 1 Km between Hotel Roma (A) and IST (B), 10-15 mn walking).


==Invited Speakers==

* [http://www-iri.upc.es/groups/lrobots/people.html Alberto Sanfeliu] (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) 
* [http://www.aass.oru.se/~asaffio/ Alessandro Saffiotti] (AASS Mobile Robotics Lab, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden) 
* [http://home.dei.polimi.it/bonarini/index.html Andrea Bonarini] (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) 
* [http://robotics.iu-bremen.de/people/pathak/index.htm Kaustubh Pathak] (Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany)
* [http://www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~erol/Home.html Erol Sahin] (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) 
* [http://www.science.uva.nl/~arnoud/ Arnoud Visser] (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 
* [http://www2.inf.fh-brs.de/~gkraet2m/index.php Gerhard Kraetzschmar] (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences) 
* [http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~akin/ H. Levent Akin] (Bogazici University, Turkey)
* [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~mtjspaan/ Matthijs Spaan] (Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
* [http://monicareggiani.net/ Monica Reggiani] (Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
* [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal/ Pedro Lima] (Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal)

==Program==

===24 Oct===
09:00 - 09:30: Introduction to the meeting (purpose, method), by A. Saffiotti and P. Lima

09:30 - 11:00: 3 invited talks

* [[Media:CoopRobLima.pdf|A Systems Theory Approach to Cooperative Robotics and Sensor Networks]], by Pedro Lima
* [[Media:CoopRobSaffiotti.pdf|The PEIS-Ecology Project: vision and results]], by Alessandro Saffiotti
* [[Media:CoopRobBonarini.pdf|Multi-Robot learning: motivations and approaches]], by Andrea Bonarini

11:00 - 11:30: coffee-break

11:30 - 12:30: 2 invited talks

* [[Media:CoopRobSpaan.pdf|Multiagent Planning under Uncertainty with Stochastic Communication Delays]], by Matthijs Spaan
* [[Media:CoopRobVisser.pdf|Multi-robot Exploration with Limited Communication in the RoboCup Rescue]], by Arnoud Visser

12:30 - 14:30: Lunch Break

14:30 - 16:00: debate on morning talks

16:00 - 16:30: coffee-break

16:30 - 19:00: preparation of proposals to be submitted to EU FP7 (only the invited speakers)

===25 Oct===

09:00 - 11:00: 4 invited talks:

* [[Media:CoopRobSanfeliu.pdf|Cooperative issues in Network Robot Systems]], by Alberto Sanfeliu
* [[Media:CoopRobPathak.pdf|Cooperative Robotics at Jacobs: Mapping and Navigation]], by Kaustubh Pathak
* [[Media:CoopRobReggiani.pdf|Architecture Paradigms for Robotic Applications]], by Monica Reggiani
* [[Media:CoopRobKraetzschmar.pdf|Software Engineering Trends in Robotics]], by Gerhard Kraetzschmar

11:00 - 11:30: coffee-break

11:30 - 12:30: 2 invited talks

* Approximate Solutions of Dec-POMDP Problems, by H. Levent Akin
* [[Media:CoopRobSahin.pdf|Self-organized flocking of mobile robots]], by Erol Sahin

12:30 - 14:30: Lunch Break

14:30 - 16:00: debate on morning talks

16:00 - 16:30: coffee-break

16:30 - 18:00: preparation of proposals to be submitted to EU FP7 (only the invited speakers)

20:00             : Dinner

===26 Oct===

(only the 11 invited speakers)

09:00 - 13:00: preparation of proposals to be submitted to EU FP7

13:00	          : End of the meeting

==Support==

This meeting has the financial support of [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt ISR] and [http://www.fct.mctes.pt FCT].

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