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The Third International Multi-Robot Systems Workshop is being held as part of the NATO working group meeting on multi-robot systems, March 14-16, 2005, at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, and precedes the working group's formal meeting. This workshop brings together top researchers working in areas relevant to designing teams of autonomous vehicles, including robots, unmanned ground, air, surface, and undersea vehicles. This year's theme is "Multi-Robot Systems for Real-World Applications," and emphasizes the use of multi-robot teams in practical applications.
Because of the tremendous interest in this workshop in the past, this year we are soliciting full papers from all who are interested in participating, either as an invited speaker or a panel participant. The workshop program committee will select for presentation the highest quality papers most closely related to the workshop theme. Papers describing experimental results of multi-robot teams in realistic settings, grounded in a strong theoretical approach, are encouraged. A proceedings will be published.
Early registration is suggested as workshop attendance is limited.
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- Architectures for
teams of autonomous vehicles
- Learning and adaptation
in teams of vehicles; learning team behaviors
- Performance metrics
for robot teams; determining when teams payoff
- Heterogeneous control
regimes for robot teams
- Cooperation in heterogeneous
teams (combining different vehicles/sensors)
- Issues in tradeoff
of tasks between teams members; allocation of tasks among team membershow team members
- Dynamic autonomomy and mixed initiative
- Human and robot team interaction
- One human interacting with teams of robots; multiple humans
- Hand-off issues
- Multi-modal interfaces
- Social issues in robots in
human environments
- Role of cognitive science
- Applications: UCAVS,
Micro-air vehicles, UUVs, UGVs, planetary exploration, assembly
in space, clean up, urban search and rescue
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