IROS 2007 Workshop
San Diego, California, U.S.A.
October 29 (full day),
2007
to be held in conjunction with IROS 2007
| Overview | Motivation and objectives | Program | Organizers |
This full-day workshop covers all aspects around network robot
system for human-robot symbiosis, such as ubiquitous robotics, cooperative
robotics, networked environment sensing/actuation, distributed ubiquitous
systems, interaction between humans and multi components of the
environment.
This proposed workshop is the sixth in the series of
workshops on ‘network robot systems’. Built on the success of the previous
workshops, we are planning to open the workshop to papers from all the
scientific community, and for this we will make a call for papers as soon as the
workshop is approved. In addition, we will invite key persons in network robot
systems research from various regions such as America, Europe and Asia to
discuss the current status of this new research area and future directions.
We plan to have panel discussions. One is for establishing benchmarks of
network robot system. As we had exciting discussion at the last workshop,
RoboCup Home will be one common testbed to stimulate development of fundamental
techniques, whereas a real world task should be highlighted as well in order to
stimulate industries and enterprises. Another panel is for standardization,
including clear definition of network(ed) robots and standard protocols among
components.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:
This proposed workshop is the sixth in the series of workshops on 'network
robot systems'. Built on the success of the previous workshops, we are planning
to invite key persons in network robot systems research from various regions
such as America, Europe and Asia to discuss the current status of this new
research area and future directions. In addition to continuing our successful
effort of community building, the 2007 of this workshop will place special
emphasis on the fundamental research questions that underlie the building of
effective 'network robot systems'. This led to the establishment of common
testbed or benchmark. People in academia need to have a common testbed as
RoboCup had promoted the development of technologies. At the same time, people
in industries need more realistic goal for system and application. Through panel
discussions, we will clarify this point in order to motivate researchers to
focus on fundamental research.
As the growth of research society, this
direction of research is supported by many governments, including Japan, Korea,
and EU. There are several initial 'network robot systems' already built such as
the ones in Japan and Korea. This suggests that we should start a discussion on
standardization, which would enable many developers to develop products related
to 'network robot system' and easily contribute each other. This workshop will
be the ideal place for such a discussion. In addition, as the research grows on
network robot system, it becomes diverse interpretation what the "network(ed)
robot" is. Thus, we need to coordinate the definition for the purpose of
community building.
Dr. Norihiro Hagita (hagita@atr.jp)
ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories
Tel. +81 774 951400, Fax. +81 774 951408 http://www.irc.atr.jp/
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288 JapanProf. Alberto Sanfeliu (sanfeliu@iri.upc.es)
Institute of Robotics, Technical University of Catalonia
Technology Park of Barcelona, U Building
Tel: +34 93 4011694, Fax, +34 93 4015782 http://webesaii.upc.es
LLorens i Artigas 4-6 2nd Floor 08028 Barcelona, SpainDr. Young-Jo Cho (youngjo@etri.re.kr)
Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI)
Tel: +82-42-860-1500, Fax: +82-42-860-6790, http://www.etri.re.kr/www_05/e_etri/
161 Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Dajeon, KOREAProf. Hiroshi Ishiguro (ishiguro@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp)
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Tel. +81-6-6879-4181 http://www.ed.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/
2-1 Yamada-oka Suita Osaka 565-0871 JapanProf. Klaus Schilling (schi@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de)
Chair Informatics VII: Robotics and Telematics, Julius-Maximilians-University Wuerzburg
Tel.0049-931-888-6647 http://www7.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg, GermanyProf. Dezhen Song (dzsong@cs.tamu.edu)
Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
Tel. (979)845-5464(O)
311C HRBB, TAMU 3112, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Secretariat:
Dr. Takayuki Kanda (kanda@atr.jp)
ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Japan
Tel. +81 774 951424, Fax. +81 774 951408 http://www.irc.atr.jp/~kanda/
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288 Japan