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09:00\u201309:10<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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09:10\u201310:00<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 1:\u202fNetworked robotics (part I)<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AI-Empowered IoT Data Collection via UAV in Rural Areas<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WakeLoc: An Ultra-Low Power, Accurate and Scalable On-Demand RTLS using Wake-Up Radios<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silvano Cortesi, Christian Vogt and Michele Magno (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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10:00\u201310:30 <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coffee Break<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30\u201311:30 <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaker: <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof Amanda Prorok<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics\u202f<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Computer Science and Technology<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cambridge University UK<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TITLE: <\/strong>Synthesizing Multi-Robot Policies: From Cooperative Perception to Human-Led Fleet Control <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABSTRACT: <\/strong>How are we to orchestrate large teams of robots? How do we distill global goals into local robot policies? And how do we seamlessly integrate human-led fleet control? Machine learning has revolutionized the way in which we address these questions by enabling us to automatically synthesize agent policies from high-level objectives. In this presentation, I first describe how we leverage data-driven approaches to learn interaction strategies that lead to coordinated and cooperative robot behaviors. I will introduce our work on Graph Neural Networks, and show how we use such architectures to learn multi-agent policies through differentiable communications channels. I present experimental results with mobile robots engaged in cooperative perception, formation control, and human-led path-finding; I also show how the methods scale to very large-scale systems, and how they are capable of modeling complex physical interactions in close-proximity flight with multiple quadrotors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BIO: <\/strong>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.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Session 2:\u202fNetworked robotics (part II)<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30\u201312:20\u202f<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edge4Drone: Managing Landings and Takeoffs in High-Density Distribution Centers<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Task-Oriented Connectivity for Networked Robotics with Generative AI and Semantic Communications<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peizheng Li (Toshiba Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Adnan Aijaz (Toshiba Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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12:20\u201313:50 <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lunch Break<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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13:50\u201315:30\u202f<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 3:\u202fApplications of Swarm Robotics<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SauRON: Smart Surveillance using Robotic Swarms with Optimized Networks<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaurav Singh, Sunday Amatare and Debashri Roy (The University of Texas Arlington, USA) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Hierarchical Optimization Framework Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task-Driven Bandwidth Allocation in 5G Teleoperation <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scalable Buoy Networks for IoT-Driven Marine Wildlife Conservation<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 (Universit\u00e9 de la R\u00e9union, Reunion) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Green Robotic Mixed Reality with Gaussian Splatting<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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)” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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