Program Friday, May 10 14:00 - 14:10 Welcome Session I: 14:10 - 14:30 Ron Arkin (GA Tech) 14:30 - 14:50 Joey Durham (Kiva Systems) Session II: 14:50 - 15:10 Jorge Soares (EPFL) 15:10 - 15:30 Edwin Olson (UMich) 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break Session III: 16:00 - 16:20 Matt Turpin/Vijay Kumar (UPenn) 16:20 - 16:40 Lorenzo Sabattini (U of Modena & Reggio Emilia) 16:40 - 17:00 Giuseppe Casalino (U of Genova) 17:00 - 18:15 Interactive Session Crossing the Reality Gap – From Single to Multi- to Many Robot Systems Date: Friday, May 10, 2013 Venue: ICRA 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany Advances in embedded processor and sensor technology in the last thirty years have accelerated interest in many robot systems and distributed sensor networks for applications such as exploration and mapping of unknown environments, large scale environmental monitoring and surveillance, and search and rescue. The advances that have made individual robots more practical have enabled the research and development of teams of robots, where capabilities are expressed by the team rather than by a super-capable individual. This is especially relevant in complex tasks or missions where it is difficult to provide robots with specific instructions a priori due to incomplete knowledge of the environment or where mission criteria require capabilities that are varied in both quantity and difficulty, such as interplanetary exploration and search and rescue operations. Despite the many worldwide R&D efforts focused on
many robot systems, there are few examples of successful full-scale deployments
of these systems in real-world application environments. The goal of this workshop is to bring
together leading experts in many-robot systems from academia, government
research labs, and industry to “cross the reality gap”. The objectives are to identify and discuss
solutions towards moving many-robot systems out of the research laboratories
and into the real world. This is the second “Crossing the Reality Gap” workshop held at ICRA. The first workshop held at ICRA 2012 and was organized by the same organizers. For ICRA 2013, we have included significant industry participation to help balance the various perspectives and further the discussions. List of Topics
Dr. Frank Ehlers Assistant Professor DISMI - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Email: lorenzo _dot_ sabattini _at_ unimore _dot_ it M. Ani Hsieh Assistant Professor Drexel University Email: mhsieh1 _at_ drexel _dot_ edu Volkan Isler Associate Professor University of Minnesota Email: isler _at_ cs _dot_ umn _dot edu Donald Sofge Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence Naval Research Laboratory Email: donald.sofge _at_ nrl _dot_ navy _dot_ mil |