Workshop Program

Invited Talk: Dr. Gabriele Ferri, NATO

Autonomy and cooperation: the pillars for effective control of marine robotic networks in communication-limited environments

Invited Talk: Prof. Stephanie Gil, Asst. Professor, Harvard University

Trust in Multi-Robot Systems and Achieving Resilient Coordination

Contributed Paper Talks - Session I

See the "Contributed Papers" Page.

1. Robust MADER: Decentralized Multiagent Trajectory Planner Robust to Communication Delay in Dynamic Environments. MIT

2. FogROS2-SGC: A Multi-Robot ROS2 Platform for Secure Global Connectivity. University of California Berkeley

3. On the Stability of Gated Graph Neural Networks. University de Rennes

Invited Talk: Prof. Urbashi Mitra, Professor, University of Southern California 

Max-dissent and Max-scheduling:  Context-aware extremum information transfer 

Contributed Paper Talks - Session II

1. Constructing Communication-Constrained Underwater Multi-Robot SLAM Datasets from an Ensemble of Single-Robot Data. Stevens Inst. of Technology

2. Path-Based Sensors: Will the Knowledge of Correlation in Random Variables Accelerate Information Gathering? University of Maryland

3. CQLite: Coverage-biased Q-Learning for Communication-Efficient Multi-Robot Exploration. University of Georgia

4. The Hive Mind: A Shared Network for Decentralised Robot Swarms. University of Bristol

5. Reducing Network Load via Message Utility Estimation for Decentralized Multirobot Teams. University of Southern California

Discussion of Open Problems in Communication Aware Multi-Robot Systems

Moderator: Prof. Michael Otte (University of Maryland)

KEYNOTE TALK: Dr. Stuart Young, Program Manager, DARPA

High Speed off-road Autonomy; lessons from the field

Invited Talk: Dr. Timothy Chung, General Manager (Autonomy and Robotics), Microsoft

Lessons Learned from the Field: Communications and Connectivity for Multi-Robot Systems 

Invited Talk: Prof. Amanda Prorok, Professor, University of Cambridge

Learning to Communicate in Multi-Robot Systems

Invited Talk: Prof. Yasamin Mostofi, Professor, University of California Santa Barbara

Tools and Techniques for Robot-Assisted Connectivity

Concluding Remarks and Future Activities

All Organizers