Workshop: Frontiers of Real-World Multi-Robot Systems: Challenges and Opportunities; Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Spring 2011

该项目的目的是组织一个为期两天的关于多机器人系统的讲习班，讨论在现实世界中实施这些系统所涉及的实际方面和问题。多机器人系统领域已经看到了巨大的分析进展，其中包括数学和算法工具的开发，以实现信息处理、控制和通信。这些系统在动态和不确定的条件下具有巨大的应用潜力，这些条件具有广泛的民用和军事应用，如灾害管理、大规模监测和监视以及空间探索。在这些系统可以在实际环境中运行之前，不仅需要解决一些研究问题，而且必须通过广泛的实验和现场实施来验证、验证和测试研究产生的理论。研讨会的重点是对多智能体机器人的实验和现实世界实施方面至关重要的五个问题，包括：i)多机器人硬件；ii)软件集成；iii)通信；iv)传感；v)模拟环境。讲习班的主要目标包括确定战略研究方向，制定行动计划，促进跨学科合作，以帮助克服当前系统中普遍存在的缺点。研讨会汇集了致力于群体机器人多学科方面的研究人员，如系统和控制、通信、传感器数据处理和融合以及传感器的开发。除了工程学科的研究人员外，来自生物、物理和数学等其他几个学科的研究人员将被邀请讨论这项研究的各个方面。这样的论坛使来自多个科学领域的思想能够相互交流，并促进跨学科研究。该项目支持和支持学生的参与，特别是本科生和代表性不足群体的参与。经过精心安排，向更广泛的研究社区广泛传播本次研讨会的陈述、讨论和研究成果。

The purpose of this project is to organize a two-day workshop on multi-robot systems that addresses the practical aspects and issues involved in real-world implementation of these systems. The field of multi-robot systems has seen a tremendous analytical progress that has included development of mathematical and algorithmic tools to enable information processing, control, and communication. These systems have tremendous potential for applications in dynamic and uncertain conditions that characterize a wide range of civilian and military applications such as disaster management, large-scale monitoring and surveillance, and space exploration. Before these systems can be operational in real-world environments, not only a number of research issues have to be resolved but also the theories generated from research have to be verified, validated, and tested by extensive experimentation and field implementation. The workshop focuses on five issues central to the experimental and real-world implementation aspects of multi-agent robotics that includes: i) multi-robot hardware; ii) software integration; iii) communication; iv) sensing; and v) simulation environments. The main objectives of the workshop include determining strategic research directions, developing action plans, and foment interdisciplinary collaborations to help overcome the shortcomings prevalent in the current systems. The workshop brings together researchers working on the multi-disciplinary aspects of the swarm robotics such as systems and controls, communication, sensor data processing and fusion, and development of sensors. In addition to researchers working in the engineering disciplines, researchers from several other disciplines such as biology, physics, and mathematics will be invited to discuss various aspects of this research. Such a forum enables the cross-fertilization of ideas from multiple scientific domains and promotes interdisciplinary research. This project enables and supports participation of students, especially those at undergraduate levels and from underrepresented groups. Elaborate arrangements are made to widely disseminate the presentations, discussions, and findings from this workshop to broader research community.