Special Session 1
Service Oriented Architectures for SMErobots and Plug-and-Produce
This session reports developments carried out within the EU project SMErobot (https://www.smerobot.org)
 
Chairs:
J. Norberto Pires, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Klas Nilsson, University of Lund, Sweden
Luca Lachello, Comau Robotics
 
Scope:
The presence of many high-processing power devices makes the concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA) particularly suitable for use in the industrial manufacturing cells. A SOA relies on highly autonomous but interoperable systems. The definition of a service is ruled by the larger context; this means that all technological details are hidden, but also that the concept that supports the service is more process related and less technologically related. The objective of this session is to report recent developments based on SOA with the goal of:

1. Achieve high-level programming features;
2. Being able to plug and produce without operator intervention;
3. Obtain fast configuration of robotic workcells, including all the related components

Special Session 2
Multi-Agent Robotic Systems
 
Chairs:
Peter Sapaty, The University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan
Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal
 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Robot technologies
- Robotic tele-operation
- Robotic insects and reactive control
- Advanced vehicles
- Swarm agency
- Cooperative control
- Sensory robotic agents
- Robot soccer
- Autonomous agents
- Security and Privacy in Multi-Agent Systems
- Robotic surveillance and security
- Agent planning
- Agent communication languages
- Hybrid multi-agent systems
- Collective behavior
- Agent-based simulation
- Robot and multi-robot learning
- Distributed multi-agent robotic systems
- Integrity and Controllability of Distributed Multi-agent Systems
- Multi-agent self-organization
- Toolboxes for multi-agent robotics
- Software for robotic agents
- Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks
 
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