Technical Program
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| Nov 1st | 08:00 | Registration open | Polydôme |
| 09:00 | Opening speech | Polydôme | |
| 09:20 | Keynote talk: | Polydôme | |
| Prof. Haruhisa Kurokawa | |||
| 10:20 | Break | Polydôme | |
| 10:40 | Oral Session 1: Localization and Navigation for Multi-Robot Systems | Polydôme | |
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Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance for Multiple Non-Holonomic Robots Decentralized & Prioritized Navigation and Collision Avoidance for Multiple Mobile Robots (Slides) (Poster) Coordinating a Group of Autonomous Robotic Floats in Shallow Seas (Slides) (Poster) |
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| 11:40 | Break | Polydôme | |
| 12:00 | Oral Session 2: Formation and Spatial Structures using Multi-Robot Systems | Polydôme | |
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A Plume Tracking Algorithm based on Crosswind Formations A Note on the Consensus Protocol with Some Applications to Agent Orbit Pattern Generation (Slides) Reactive Coordination and Adaptive Lattice Formation in Mobile Robotic Surveillance Swarms |
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| 13:00 | Break and move to Salle Polyvalente | ||
| 13:15 | Lunch and poster session 1 (15 posters: all orally presented papers on Nov 1st, no poster-only presentation) | Hall Polyvalente | |
| 15:15 | Oral Session 3: Robotic Networks with Communication Constraints | Polyvalente | |
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Connectivity Maintenance of a Heterogeneous Sensor Network (Slides) (Poster) Any-Com Multi-Robot Path-Planning: Maximizing Collaboration for Variable Bandwidth Distributed Algebraic Connectivity Maximization for Robotic Networks: A Heuristic Approach (Slides) (Poster) |
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| 16:15 | Break | Hall Polyvalente | |
| 16:35 | Oral session 4: Coordination Strategies I | Polyvalente | |
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A Formal Approach to Deployment of Robotic Teams in an Urban-Like Environment (Slides) (Poster) Heuristic Planning for Decentralized MDPs with Sparse Interactions (Slides) Influence Maximization for Informed Agents in Collective Behavior (Slides) (Poster) |
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| 17:35 | Break | Hall Polyvalente | |
| 17:55 | Oral Session 5: Distributed Coverage and Exploration | Polyvalente | |
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A Distributed, Real-Time Approach to Multi-Robot Uniform Frequency Coverage (Slides) Distributed Coverage and Exploration in Unknown Non-Convex Environments (Slides) (Poster)
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| Nov 2nd | 9:15 | Keynote talk: | Polyvalente |
| Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea | |||
| 10:15 | Break | Hall Polyvalente | |
| 10:30 | Oral Session 6: Aerial Multi-Vehicle Systems | Polyvalente | |
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Cooperative Grasping and Transport using Multiple Quadrotors (Slides) (Poster) Distributed Information Filters for MAV Cooperative Localization (Slides) Beat-Based Synchronization and Steering for Groups of Fixed-Wing Flying Robots |
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| 11:30 | Break | Hall Polyvalente | |
| 11:50 | Oral Session 7: Swarm Robotics I | Polyvalente | |
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Distributed Filtering for Time-Delayed Deployment to Multiple Sites (Poster) Utilizing Stochastic Processes for Computing Distributions of Large-Size Robot Population Optimal Centralized Control Physical interactions in swarm robotics: the hand-bot case study (Slides) (Poster) |
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| 12:50 | Lunch and poster session 2 (14 posters: 6 orally presented papers on Nov 2nd, and 8 poster-only presentations) | Hall Polyvalente | |
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Robust Multi-robot Team Formations using Weighted Voting Games Evaluating Efficient Data Collection Algorithms for Environmental Sensor Networks (Poster) Emergence of Specialization in a Swarm of Robots Pancakes: A Software Framework for Distributed Robot and Sensor Network Applications (Poster) Multi-Robot Topological Exploration Using Olfactory Cues (Poster) Multi-Robot Map Updating in Dynamic Environments (Poster) Analysis of Human Standing-up Motion Based on Distributed Muscle Control (Poster) Cooperative Distributed Object Tracking by Multiple Robots Based on Feature Selection |
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| 14:50 | Social event | ||
| Visit to Lavaux and Glérolles castle | |||
| Gala dinner at Beau Rivage Hotel | |||
| Gala talk by Prof. Dario Floreano | |||
| Nov 3rd | 9:15 | Keynote talk: | Polyvalente |
| Prof. Radhika Nagpal | |||
| 10:15 | Break | Hall Polyvalente | |
| 10:30 | Oral Session 8: Swarm Robotics II | Polyvalente | |
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Heterogeneous Self-Assembling based on Constraint Satisfaction Problem On Fault Tolerance and Scalability of Swarm Robotic Systems (Slides) (Poster)
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| 11:30 | Break | Hall Polyvalente | |
| 11:50 | Oral Session 9: Coordination Strategies II | Polyvalente | |
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Joanne Walker and Myra Wilson, Endocrine Control for Task Distribution among Heterogeneous Robots |
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| 12:50 | Lunch and poster session 3 (14 posters: 9 orally presented papers on Nov 3rd, and 5 poster-only presentations) | Hall Polyvalente | |
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Probabilistic Potential Field for Robot Formation Visual-aided guidance for the maintenance of multi-robot formations (Slides) Cooperative transportation on Swarm Robot Using Pheromone Communication An Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Method for Motion Planning of Multiple Robots (Slides) Distributed Colony-Level Algorithm Switching for Robot Swarm Foraging (Poster) |
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| 14:45 | Oral Session 10: Modular Robotics | Polyvalente | |
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Hierarchical Planning for Self-Reconfiguring Robots Using Module Kinematics Sensor-coupled Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Locomotion Control of a Modular Snake Robot A New Graph Signature Calculation Method Based on Power Centrality for Modular Robots |
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| 15:45 | Break | Hall Polyvalente | |
| 16:15 | EESS & DARS Keynote talk: | Polyvalente | |
| Prof. Gaurav S. Sukhatme | |||
| 17:15 | Wrap-up speech | Polyvalente | |
| 17:30 | Farewell aperitif | Polyvalente | |
| 18:30 | End of the conference |
