2013 ICRA Workshop on Towards Fully Decentralized Multi-Robot Systems: Hardware, Software and Integration

I co-organize the ICRA 2013 Full-day Workshop on Towards Fully Decentralized Multi-Robot Systems: Hardware, Software and Integration, an event of the 2013 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany.

More information at the workshop website.

Workshop Program:

Main room of the workshop: Mombert

Interactive presentations and quadrotor teleoperation demo will happen in the Interactive Sessions Area

Code of the workshop: Mo-WS-01

Invited Talks
Room 
Mombert

08:10  
  
Welcome

08:30


Modeling and Control of Distributed Stochastic Robotic Systems
Alcherio Martinoli

09:00


Testbeds, Models and Abstractions: Towards a Science of Distributed Robotics
Gaurav Sukhatme

Interactive session  
Teasers: room 
Mombert
Interactive presentations: Interactive Sessions Area

09:30


Implementation of Cooperative Dynamic Behaviors in Networked Systems with Controllability Preservation (pdf) 
Lorenzo Sabattini, Cristian Secchi, Matteo Cocetti and Cesare Fantuzzi

09:35


Discussion of Multi-Robot Exploration in Communication-Limited Environments (pdf)
Arnoud Visser, Julian de Hoog, Adrian Jiménez-González and José Ramiro Martínez de-Dios

09:40


A Software Framework for Multi-Robot Human Interaction (pdf)
Junaed Sattar, Marc Grimson and James Little

09:45


SwarmSimX and TeleKyb: Two ROS-integrated Software Frameworks for Single- and Multi-Robot Applications (pdf)
Johannes Lächele, Martin Riedel, Paolo Robuffo Giordano and Antonio Franchi

09:50


Multi-UAS Testbed for Wireless Communication Experiments (pdf)
Maciej Stachura, Jack Elston, Eric W. Frew, Brian Argrow, Timothy X. Brown and Cory Dixon

10:00


Coffee Break

10:30


Interactive presentations (Interactive Sessions Area)

11:30


Transfer back to room Mombert

Invited Talks
Room Mombert

11:40


Robotic Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring
Volkan Isler and Pratap Tokekar (presenter)

12:10


Platform Scale and Group Size Considerations in Architecture Design
Vijay Kumar

12:40


Lunch

02:00


Supervision of Heterogeneous Robot Teams with Application to Urban Search and Rescue
Oskar von Stryk and Karen Petersen (presenter)

02:30


Autonomy and Human Interaction in Multi-Robot Systems
Antonio Franchi and Paolo Robuffo Giordano

Interactive session
Teasers: room Mombert 
Interactive presentations: Interactive Sessions Area

03:00


Communication Integrated Control Architecture in Multirobot Syste (pdf)
Hakan Karaogouz, Haluk Bayram and H. Isil Bozma

03:05


A Communication-Bandwidth-Aware Hybrid Estimation Framework for Multi-robot Cooperative Localization (pdf)
Esha D. Nerurkar and Stergios I. Roumeliotis

03:10


A Software Suite for the Control and the Monitoring of Adaptive Robotic Ecologies (pdf)
Mauro Dragone, Maurizio Di Rocco, Federico Pecora and Alessandro Saffiotti

03:15


Interactive Demo: Haptic Remote Control of Multiple UAVs with Autonomous Cohesive Behavior (pdf)
Thomas Nestmeyer, Martin Riedel, Johannes Lächele, Simon Hartmann, Fiete Botschen, Paolo Robuffo Giordano and Antonio Franchi

03:20


Concurrent Bayesian Learners for Multi-Robot Patrolling Missions (pdf)
David Portugal, Micael S. Couceiro and Rui P. Rocha

03:30


Coffee Break

04:00


Interactive presentations and Teleoperation Demo (Interactive Sessions Area)

05:00


Transfer back to room Mombert

Invited Talk and Final Discussion
Room Mombert

05:10


Multi-Agent Coordination for Optimizing Communication in Heterogeneous Robot Networks
Daniela Rus and Stephanie Gil (presenter)

05:40


Discussion

06:15


End of the Workshop