Lisbon Workshop on New Challenges for Cooperative Robotics

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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 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

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

11:00 - 11:30: coffee-break

11:30 - 12:30: 2 invited talks

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:

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.