Enrico Natalizio (Senior member IEEE) is currently Chief Researcher of the Autonomous Robotics Research Center with the Technology Innovation Institute (UAE) and a Full Professor with the LORIA laboratory at the Université de Lorraine (France). He obtained his master’s degree magna cum laude and his Ph.D in Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria (Italy) in 2000 and 2005 respectively. In 2005-2006 he was a visiting researcher at the BWN (Broadband Wireless Networking) Lab at Georgia Tech in Atlanta (USA). From 2006 till 2010, he was a research fellow at the Titan Lab of the Università della Calabria (Italy). In October 2010, he joined POPS team at Inria Lille – Nord Europe (France) as a postdoc researcher and from 2012 till 2018 he was an Associate Professor at the Université de technologie de Compiègne (France), and Full Professor at the Université de Lorraine, from September 2018. His research interests include UAV communications and networking, robot and sensor communications with applications in networking technologies for disaster management and infrastructure monitoring, and IoT privacy and security. He is currently an associated editor of Elsevier Vehicular Communications, and Computer Networks. He has been ranked in the top-2% world-wide scientists of the Stanford-University's bibliometric study for the year 2021.
Title:
NetRobiCS: Exploring Advantages, Challenges and Perspectives of Networked Robotics and Communication Systems
Abstract:
The integration of multi-robot systems into a unified networked and communication framework, offers a plethora of benefits across various application domains: from enhancing efficiency of the system to enabling collaboration and coordination among robots, from improving operations flexibility to offering fault tolerance and resilience. The objective of the research of practitioners in this field aims at creating autonomous swarms of terrestrial, aerial, marine and underwater devices, able to perform complex missions while collaborating intelligently in the achievement of common tasks.
However, these benefits and potential applications are counterbalanced by the research, design and implementation challenges that a networked robotic system must overcome, in terms of reliability, scalability and orchestration of the communications, but also in the middleware design, as well as in the interoperability and standardization of communication technologies and protocols.
This talk dives into advantages, challenges and perspectives of networked robotics and communication system addressing research and development aspects charting interdisciplinary paths forward to realize multi-robot systems' full potential.
Programming Human-Drone Interactions: Lessons from the Drone Arena Challenge [10:00 - 10:15]
Mousa Sondoqah (Politecnico di Milano (Italy)), Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (RI.SE Computer Science (Sweden)), Kristina Popova (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)), Moira McGregor (Stockholm University (Sweden)), Joseph La Delfa (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)), Rachael Garrett (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)), Airi Lampinen (Stockholm University (Sweden)), Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and RI.SE Computer Science (Sweden)), and Kristina Höök (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden))
Two-level Computation Offloading to Optimize the Energy Consumption of UAV-mounted Edge Nodes [10:15 - 10:30]
Parth Srivastava (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India), and Sateesh Kumar Peddoju (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
[10:30 - 11:00] Coffee break
TinyBlimp: A Promising Frontier for Autonomous Miniature Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [11:00 - 11:15]
Marco Pellegrino (Technology Innovation Institute), Michal Barciś (Technology Innovation Institute), Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute), Zulkarnaen (Technology Innovation Institute), Carla F. Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino), and Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute)
Always On Air: Adaptive Physical Layer Switching For Uninterrupted UAV Air-to-Ground Communication [11:15 - 11:30]
Vincenz Mechler (TU Darmstadt), Felix Wiegand (TU Darmstadt), Matthias Hollick (TU Darmstadt, Germany), and Bastian Bloessl (TU Darmstadt)
Adapting Petal Routing to Variable Network Conditions [11:30 - 11:45]
Tripti Samal (North Carolina State University), and Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University)
LEON: Simulating Handover Integrating Non-Terrestrial Networks with 5G and Beyond [11:45 - 12:00]
Jiajing Zhang (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden), Lyuqiao Zhong (TU Dresden), Yushan Yang (Haptic Communication Systems, TU Dresden), Jonas Schulz (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden), Giang T. Nguyen (Haptic Communication Systems, TU Dresden, Germany), and Frank H. P. Fitzek (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden, Germany)
Cooperative Drone Delivery via Push-based Lift with Payload Stabilization [12:00 - 12:15]
Alice James (Macquarie University, Australia), Avishkar Seth (Macquarie University, Australia), Endrowednes Kuantama (Macquarie University, Australia), Richard Han (Macquarie University, Australia), and Subhas Mukhopadhyay (Macquarie University, Australia)
Demonstration of Laser Power Delivery to Mobile Microrobots [12:15 - 12:30]
Charles J. Carver (Columbia University), Toma Itagaki (Columbia University), Kechen Liu (Columbia University), Megan Graciela Nauli Manik (Columbia University), Zachary Englhardt (Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington), Vikram Iyer (Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington), and Xia Zhou (Columbia University)
Analyzing Swimming Performance Using Drone Captured Aerial Videos [12:30 - 12:45]
Thu Tran (Singapore Management University), Kenny Tsu Wei Choo (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Shaohui Foong (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Hitesh Bhardwaj (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Shane Kyi Hla Win (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Wei Jun Ang (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Kenneth Goh (Singapore Management University), and Rajesh Krishna Balan (Singapore Management University)
[12:45 - 14:00] Lunch break