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Events include: Conferences, Workshops, Special Issues, Summer Schools.
Workshop on Real-World Challenges in Multi-Robot Cooperation
Name of award: Best Contributing Paper at the Workshop “Real-World Challenges in Multi-Robot Cooperation”
Award recipient(s): Edward Bray, Mason Brown, Ki Myung Brian Lee, Finn Linstrom, Adam Tan, Aspen Eyers, Suryansh Sharma, David Johnson, Robert Fitch, Felix H. Kong, and Graeme Best
Title of paper: “Multi-Robot Exploration with Inferred Human Intent in Large-Scale Field Experiments: Lessons Learnt”
Participants received leaflets containing QR codes that directed them to a portal. This portal asked them to reflect on how they currently feel and how they would like to feel, generating two personalized prompts. Each participant was provided with a set of stickers to place on a communal board, following a set of simple swarm rules. For instance, one rule might specify that a participant only has a certain number of black stickers, and they must all be connected. While the swarm rules were consistent for everyone, the prompts were unique to each individual, resulting in the creation of an emergent piece of collective art.
For more information, please visit this link.
Multi-Robot Systems TC hosted a happy hour event in Yokohama for those who attended ICRA’24. Event details are:
– Date: Monday, May 13th, 2024
– Time: 19:00 (7 PM) – 21:00 (9 PM) Local Time (after the welcome reception)
– Venue: TKP Garden City PREMIUM Minatomirai
We had roughly 100 attendees including TC members, TC former and current co-chairs, and non-TC members. The event was very successful as the attendees really enjoyed and appreciated the chance to meet and talk with peers. We got 20+ new members after the event.
OMRON was an industrial sponsor for this event.
Photos were taken during the happy hour event
The workshop was very successful and well-attend with 85 official registrants. More on this workshop can be found here.
Awards Given: 2nd place for Best poster award – Alex Elias, John T. Wen
Title of poster: “Efficient and Singularity-Aware Inverse Kinematics for 6-DOF and 7-DOF Revolute Manipulators”
Alex Elias with his award-wining poster at the workshop; Interactive poster session at the workshop;
Burak Aksoy (left) and Alex Elias (right) with their award-winning posters during the workshop
