[agents] Call for Participation: Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems: ARMS at AAMAS 2011

[Adriaan ter Mors]

(apologies for multiple postings)
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) 2011

A full-day workshop to be held as part of AAMAS-2011
and to accompany the AAMAS Special Track on Robotics

May 2 2011, Taipei, Taiwan
Website: http://www.alg.ewi.tudelft.nl/arms2011/

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The Autonomous Robots and Multirobot workshop aims to supply roboticists and agents researchers a chance to meet and interact, by offering a forum where researchers in this area can present promising innovative research directions, and new results. The workshop is coordinated and associated with the AAMAS robotics track.

Workshop Program
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9:00 – 10:30 Session 1: Human-robot interaction
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"The iCat as a Natural Interaction Partner: Play Go Fish with a Robot"
Koen Hindriks, Mark Neerincx and Mirek Vink

"Designing the HRTeam Framework: Lessons Learned from a Rough-'N-Ready Human/Multi-Robot Team"
Elizabeth Sklar, A. Tuna Ozgelen and Simon Parsons

"Flood Disaster Mitigation: A Real-world Challenge Problem for Multi-Agent Unmanned Surface Vehicles"
Paul Scerri

10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00	Session 2: Robot perception
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"AnySURF: Flexible Local Features Computation"
Eran Sadeh-Or and Gal A. Kaminka

"Robot Navigation with Weak Sensors"
Noa Agmon and Yehuda Elmaliah

12:00 – 13:00	Session 3: Robot exploration
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"Individual Localization and Tracking in Multi-Robot Settings with Dynamic Landmarks"
Anousha Mesbah and Prashant Doshi

"Fast Frontier Detection for Robot Exploration"
Matan Keidar, Eran Sadeh-Or and Gal A. Kaminka

13:00 – 14:00	Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30	Session 4: Robots in Motion
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"Lazy auctions for multi-robot collision avoidance and motion control under uncertainty"
Jan Calliess, Daniel Lyons and Uwe Hanebeck

"Multi-Robot Path Planning with the Spatio-Temporal A* Algorithm and its Variants"
Wenjie Wang and Wooi-Boon Goh

"Ship Patrol: Multiagent Patrol under Complex Environmental Conditions"
Noa Agmon, Daniel Urieli and Peter Stone

15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30	Session 5: Multi-robot teamwork
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"Adaptive Multi-Robot Team Reconfiguration using a Policy-Reuse Reinforcement Learning Approach"
Ke Cheng, Prithviraj Dasgupta and Bikramjit Banerjee

"Bounded Optimal Constrained Team Coordination with Delay Penalties and Location Choice"
G. Ayorkor Korsah, Anthony Stentz and M. Bernardine Dias

"Decoupling MDPs Step by Step from a POMDP"
Chyon Hae Kim, Hiroshi Tsujino and Hiroyuki Nakahara

17:30 - 17:40	Workshop Close


Organizing Committee
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Pierre Castagna, Université de Nantes, France
Sonia Chernova, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Ayanna Howard, Georgia Tech, USA
Gal Kaminka, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Pedro Lima, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Emanuele Menegatti, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Adriaan ter Mors, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, USA
Erol Sahin, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Alfons Salden, Almende BV, The Netherlands
Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon, USA
Elisabeth "Betsy" Sklar, Brooklyn College, USA
Petr Skobelev, Smart Solutions, Ltd., Russia

The contact organizers are Gal Kaminka (galk at cs.biu.ac.il) and Adriaan ter Mors (a.w.termors at tudelft.nl).

Program Committee
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Lynne E. Parker, The University of Tennessee, USA
Naomi E. Leonard, Princeton University, USA
Laura Barbulescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Lucia Pallottino, University of Pisa, Italy
Tatsushi Nishi, Osaka University, Japan
Rongxin Cui, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands