Call for Applications- 2020 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems

The Summer School aims to promote the newest achievements in multi-robot systems and swarm robotics to students, academic researchers, and industrial practitioners to enable putting systems of cooperating robots into practice. The content of the Summer School will be focused but not limited to systems of cooperating aerial vehicles. The topics addressed by well-recognized experts in the field of Multi-Robot Systems are composed to provide the participants necessary knowledge for understanding the available theory and for realization real-world experiments with a fleet of autonomous micro aerial vehicles in the last day of the Summer School.

The call for applications is now open: http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school/apply.html

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2020 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems

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WHERE:                             Prague, Czech Republic

WHEN:                               13-17 July 2020

DEADLINE:                        31 January 2020

HOW TO APPLY:               Submit CV, personal information, and a brief statement of interest through:

                                         
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN9Px3-QNU6ABTsyw8OUaqKmnsCLhzTOpo_culbTVx2zK5lQ/viewform

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND:  Graduate students (master or PhD) and students (Bc.) at an advanced stage of their university courses. R&D professionals.

 
FEE:                                 Students: 440 €

                                         Academic participants: 510 €

                                         Industry participants: 590 €  

 
* The fee includes lectures, practicals with real robots, lunches, coffee breaks, banquet, welcome drink, farewell party, social program – guided tour in Prague’s Old Town, VAT is not included

LECTURERS:

Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Research director for the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Inventor of the Ant Colony Optimization metaheuristic

Marco Pavone, Stanford University, Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory

Shaojie Shen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Director of HKUST-DJI Joint Innovation Laboratory

Alcherio Martinoli, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Scientific leader at the Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms Laboratory

Lorenzo Sabattini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Professor at DISMI, IEEE RAS TC on Multi-Robot Systems

Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Inria/IRISA, Scientific leader of the Rainbow Team at Inria/IRISA

More lecturers will come

Right now we are in the process of inviting speakers, so wait for new updates! We target to have 8 invited speakers from the best universities all around the world.

PRACTICALS:

Tomáš Báča, Czech Technical University: Outdoor experiments with swarms of micro aerial vehicles http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school/outdoor.html
Robert Pěnička, Czech Technical University: ROS and Gazebo for verification of multirobot systems

WEB PAGE:    http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school/

CONTACT:      [email protected]