Program

Program

Monday, May 20, 2024 ● 08:30 – 15:30 ● Room:  

08:30–08:45 
Welcome

08:45–10:00  
Keynote

Speaker:  

Prof Amanda Prorok 
Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics  
Department of Computer Science and Technology 
Cambridge University UK 
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/asp45
https://proroklab.org

SHORT BIO: 

Amanda Prorok is Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. In her work, she pioneered differentiable communications methods for multi-agent systems, with applications to multi-robot perception and control. Amanda has given invited keynotes at TEDx and ICRA, and has been honored by numerous research awards, including a prestigious ERC Starting Grant. Amanda is an IEEE Senior Member, serves as Associate Editor for Autonomous Robots (AURO) and was the Chair of the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems. Her PhD thesis was awarded the Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) prize for the best thesis at EPFL in Computer Science.  

Title: TBA 

10:00–10:30  
Coffee Break 

10:30–12:10  
Session 1: Networked robotics 

AI-Empowered IoT Data Collection via UAV in Rural Areas 
Phuc Tinh Vo and Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, Italy); Paolo Barsocchi (ISTI-CNR, Italy); Antonino Crivello (Institute of Information Science and Technologies – CNR, Italy) 

WakeLoc: An Ultra-Low Power, Accurate and Scalable On-Demand RTLS using Wake-Up Radios 
Silvano Cortesi, Christian Vogt and Michele Magno (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) 

Edge4Drone: Managing Landings and Takeoffs in High-Density Distribution Centers 
Lucas de Paula Soares (Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil); Fabiola Martins Campos de Oliveira (Federal University of ABC, Brazil); Carlos Alberto Kamienski (Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil); Luiz F. Bittencourt (University of Campinas, Brazil) 

Task-Oriented Connectivity for Networked Robotics with Generative AI and Semantic Communications 
Peizheng Li (Toshiba Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Adnan Aijaz (Toshiba Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) 

12:10–13:50  
Lunch Break 

13:50–15:30  
Session 2: Applications of Swarm Robotics 

SauRON: Smart Surveillance using Robotic Swarms with Optimized Networks 
Gaurav Singh, Sunday Amatare and Debashri Roy (The University of Texas Arlington, USA) 

A Hierarchical Optimization Framework Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task-Driven Bandwidth Allocation in 5G Teleoperation  
Narges Golmohammadi (University of Louisville, USA); Madan Mohan Rayguru (J B Speed School of Engineering & University of Louisville, USA); Sabur Baidya (University of Louisville, USA) 

Scalable Buoy Networks for IoT-Driven Marine Wildlife Conservation 
Michel Fontaine, Mohammad Patel, Chloe Riviere, Clement Sautron and Theo Socha (University of Reunion, Reunion); Tahiry Razafindralambo (University of la Reunion, Reunion); Pierre-Ugo Tournoux (Université de la Réunion, Reunion) 

Green Robotic Mixed Reality with Gaussian Splatting 
Chenxuan Liu (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); He Li (University of Macau, Macao); Zongze Li (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Shuai Wang (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Wei Xu (Manifold Tech Limited, China); Kejiang Ye (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Cheng-Zhong Xu (University of Macau, China)”