Lisbon Workshop on New Challenges for Cooperative Robotics
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 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 map (approximately 1 Km between Hotel Roma (A) and IST (B), 10-15 mn walking).
Invited Speakers
- Alberto Sanfeliu (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
- Alessandro Saffiotti (AASS Mobile Robotics Lab, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden)
- Andrea Bonarini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
- Kaustubh Pathak (Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany)
- Erol Sahin (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
- Arnoud Visser (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Gerhard Kraetzschmar (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences)
- H. Levent Akin (Bogazici University, Turkey)
- Matthijs Spaan (Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
- Monica Reggiani (Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
- 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
- A Systems Theory Approach to Cooperative Robotics and Sensor Networks, by Pedro Lima
- The PEIS-Ecology Project: vision and results, by Alessandro Saffiotti
- Multi-Robot learning: motivations and approaches, by Andrea Bonarini
11:00 - 11:30: coffee-break
11:30 - 12:30: 2 invited talks
- Multiagent Planning under Uncertainty with Stochastic Communication Delays, by Matthijs Spaan
- 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:
- Cooperative issues in Network Robot Systems, by Alberto Sanfeliu
- Cooperative Robotics at Jacobs: Mapping and Navigation, by Kaustubh Pathak
- Architecture Paradigms for Robotic Applications, by Monica Reggiani
- 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
- 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 ISR and FCT.
