The workshop will address topics including, but not limited to:
Multi-robot planning, coordination, and task allocation
Fleet management architectures
Interoperability among heterogeneous robots
Multi-vendor fleet management and orchestration
Standardization efforts, including VDA5050
Transition strategies toward warehouse and factory automation
AI-enabled fleet management and decision making
Reliability, explainability, and trustworthiness of AI solutions
Distributed versus centralized coordination architectures
Digital twins and simulation tools
Applications in logistics, manufacturing, agriculture, and Industry 5.0
The workshop will specifically address the following questions:
Which multi-robot technologies are already deployed at scale?
What are the main obstacles preventing wider industrial adoption?
How should heterogeneous fleets composed of robots from different vendors be coordinated?
Can AI be trusted in safety-critical industrial operations?
How can companies progressively introduce mobile robots into partially automated environments?
Which research challenges remain open for the next generation of multi-robot systems?