1st International HERMES Workshop
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
2023 June 02, Friday
Many thanks to all the invited speakers, paper presenters, members of the scientific committee, and attendees of our inaugural workshop!
Invited Speakers
Program
*All times are in BST (British Summer Time, UTC+1)
Objectives
The workshop is aimed at showcasing the achievements, capabilities, and approaches of relevant institutions and laboratories within the frame of multi-agent systems in extreme operational environments. Three primary goals have been identified:
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to identify high priority scientific and exploratory tasks, on- and off-Earth, where deploying teams of robots can provide a substantial benefit
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to understand how heterogeneous teams can effectively cooperate to map, characterize, reason, and act in extreme, dynamic, and unstructured environments
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to define key focus areas for education, research, and technology development in the upcoming years, within the crossroad of robotics, exploration, and science in extreme environments
Topics Covered
- Status of and challenges in performing science and exploration in extreme environments, including but not limited to oceans, glaciers, arctic regions, volcanoes, hot-springs, caves, underground tunnels, planetary surfaces, and asteroids.
- Definition of immediate needs and scientific priorities for the deployment of heterogeneous multi-robot teams for Earth and Space.
- Recent findings and developments in the fields of multi-agent robot localization, mapping, coordination, communication, task planning, sampling, and cooperative sensing, learning and decision making.
- Presentation of novel mobile robotic concepts and prototypes for the exploration of unconstructed, dynamic environments.
- Dissemination of lessons learned from the development and field testing of heterogeneous multi-robot teams.
- Exploration of commercial ventures in the field of multi-robot cooperation for Earth and Space.
Sponsors
This workshop was supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)—FiReSpARX Project (ref. 14783405), Airbus Defense & Space (Silver Sponsor), and Neurospace (Bronze Sponsor).
We are also proud to be endorsed by the following IEEE/RAS Technical Committees:
