| 1st day (Nov. 17) | |||||||||||||||||
| Distributed Sensing (4) | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:45 - 11:45 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chair: Zhidon Wang (Chiba Institute of Technology) | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:45-10:15 | Marco Baglietto, Giorgio Cannata, Francesco Capezio, and Antonio Sgorbissa | ||||||||||||||||
| 99 | Multi-Robot Continuous Coverage of Significant Locations in the Environment | ||||||||||||||||
| 10:15-10:45 | James McLurkin | ||||||||||||||||
| 100 | Measuring the Accuracy of Distributed Algorithms on Multi-Robot Systems with Dynamic Network Topologies | ||||||||||||||||
| 10:45-11:15 | Kosuke Sekiyama and Hirohisa Araki | ||||||||||||||||
| 92 | Network Topology Reconfiguration based on Risk Management | ||||||||||||||||
| 11:15-11:45 | Chia Ching Ooi and Christian Schindelhauer | ||||||||||||||||
| 75 | Energy-Efficient Distributed Target Tracking using Wireless Relay Robots | ||||||||||||||||
| Poster 1 Short Presentation (9) | |||||||||||||||||
| 11:45 - 12:15 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chair: Yusuke Ikemoto (The University of Tokyo) | |||||||||||||||||
| 11:48-11:51 | Norisuke Fujii, Reiko Inoue and Jun Ota | ||||||||||||||||
| 20 | Rearrangement Task by Multiple Robots Using a Territorial Approach | ||||||||||||||||
| 11:51-11:54 | Satoshi Hoshino, Hiroya Seki, and Yuji Naka | ||||||||||||||||
| 59 | Pipeless Batch Plant with Operating Robots for a Multiproduct Production System | ||||||||||||||||
| 11:54-11:57 | Mitsuru Endo, Kenji Hirose, Yusuke Sugahara, Yasuhisa Hirata, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Takashi Kanbayashi, Mitsukazu Oomoto, Koki Suzuki, Kazunori Murakami and Kenichi Nakamura | ||||||||||||||||
| 24 | Trajectory Generation for Multiple Robots of a Car Transportation System | ||||||||||||||||
| 11:57-12:00 | Hisato Hino, Satoshi Hoshino, Tomoharu Fujisawa, Shigehisa Maruyama and Jun Ota | ||||||||||||||||
| 29 | Control Methodology of Transfer Crane with Look-Ahead Rule in Harbor Transportation System | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:00-12:03 | Enrico Simetti and Alessio Turetta and Giuseppe Casalino | ||||||||||||||||
| 45 | Distributed Control and Coordination of Cooperative Mobile Manipulator Systems | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:03-12:06 | Kai Zhang, Emmanuel G. Collins, Jr.,
Dongqing Shi, Xiuwen Liu, and Oscar Chuy, Jr. |
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| 46 | A Stochastic Clustering Auction (SCA) for Centralized and Distributed Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Teams | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:06-12:09 | A. Rozinat, S. Zickler, M. Veloso, W.M.P. van der Aalst, and C.McMillen | ||||||||||||||||
| 50 | Analyzing Multi-agent Activity Logs Using Process Mining Techniques | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:09-12:12 | Marek Matusiak, Janne Paanajärvi, Pekka Appelqvist, Mikko Elomaa, Mika Vainio, Tomi Ylikorpi and Aarne Halme | ||||||||||||||||
| 23 | A Novel Marsupial Robot Society: Towards Long-Term Autonomy | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:12-12:15 | Simon Butler and Yiannis Demiris | ||||||||||||||||
| 63 | Predicting the Movements of Robot Teams Using Generative Models | ||||||||||||||||
| Poster 1 Poster Session (9) | |||||||||||||||||
| 13:15 - 14:30 | |||||||||||||||||
| Keynote speech | |||||||||||||||||
| 14:30-15:00 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chair Haruhisa Kurokawa (AIST) | |||||||||||||||||
| Professor Gregory S. Chirikjian (Johns Hopkins University) | |||||||||||||||||
| Robotic Self-Replication, Self-Diagnosis, and Self-Repair: Probabilistic Considerations | |||||||||||||||||
| OS: Mobiligence (Organizer: Dr. Kuniaki Kawabata (RIKEN))(3) | |||||||||||||||||
| 15:15-16:45 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chair: Kousuke Inoue (Ibaraki University) | |||||||||||||||||
| 15:15-15:45 | Antonio D’Angelo, Tetsuro Funato and Enrico Pagello | ||||||||||||||||
| 30 | Motion Control of Dense Robot Colony Using Thermodynamics | ||||||||||||||||
| 15:45-16:15 | Shiro Yano, Yusuke Ikemoto, Hitoshi Aonuma, Takashi Nagao and Hajime Asama | ||||||||||||||||
| 56 | Modeling of Self-Organized Competition Hierarchy with Body Weight Development in Larval cricket, Gryllus Bimaculatus | ||||||||||||||||
| 16:15-16:45 | Jae Heon Chung, Byung-Ju Yi, and Chang Soo Han | ||||||||||||||||
| 78 | Intelligent Mobility Playing the
Role of Impulse Absorption |
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| OS: Ambient Intelligence (Organizer: Kosuke Sekiyama (Nagoya University)) (3) | |||||||||||||||||
| 17:00-18:30 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chair: Kosuke Sekiyama (Nagoya University) | |||||||||||||||||
| 17:00-17:30 | Yuki Wakuda, Kosuke Sekiyama, and Toshio Fukuda | ||||||||||||||||
| 104 | Cognitive Ontology: A Concept Structure for Dynamic Event Interpretation and Description from Visual Scene | ||||||||||||||||
| 17:30-18:00 | Mitsuharu Nojima, Hiroaki Shimo and Yoshihiro Miyake | ||||||||||||||||
| 49 | Subjective Timing Control in Syncronized Motion of Human - A Basic Study for Human-Robot Interaction - | ||||||||||||||||
| 18:00-18:30 | Fumio Ozaki, Jun’ichiro Ooga and Kunikatsu Takase | ||||||||||||||||
| 74 | Robot Software Framework using Object and Aspect Oriented Programming Paradigm | ||||||||||||||||
| 2nd day (Nov. 18) | |||||||||||||||||
| Swarm Intelligence (5) | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:30-12:00 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chairs: Paulina Varshavskaya (MIT), Sumiaki Ichikawa (Tokyo University of Science, Suwa) | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:30-10:00 | Takuya Umedachi, Taichi Kitamura, Koichi Takeda, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Ryo Kobayashi and Akio Ishiguro | ||||||||||||||||
| 105 | A Modular Robot Driven by Protoplasmic Streaming | ||||||||||||||||
| 10:00-10:30 | I˜naki Navarro, Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinoli and Fernando Mat´ıa | ||||||||||||||||
| 55 | A Distributed Scalable Approach to Formation Control in Multi-Robot Systems | ||||||||||||||||
| 10:30-11:00 | Hande C¸ elikkanat, Ali Emre Turgut and Erol S¸ahin | ||||||||||||||||
| 68 | Guiding a Robot Flock via Informed Robots | ||||||||||||||||
| 11:00-11:30 | Daichi Yanagisawa, Ayako Kimura, Ryosuke Nishi, Akiyasu Tomoeda and Katsuhiro Nishinari | ||||||||||||||||
| 18 | Theoretical and Empirical Study of Pedestrian Outflow through an Exit | ||||||||||||||||
| 11:30-12:00 | Thomas Lochmatter and Alcherio Martinoli | ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Understanding the Potential Impact of Multiple Robots in Odor Source Localization | ||||||||||||||||
| Poster 2 Short Presentation (9) | |||||||||||||||||
| 12:00 - 12:30 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chair: Yusuke Tamura (The University of Tokyo) | |||||||||||||||||
| 12:03-12:06 | Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Ryuji Sugizaki, Kuniaki Kawabata, Yasushi Hada and Yoshito Tobe | ||||||||||||||||
| 70 | Deployment and Management of Wireless Sensor Network using Mobile Robots for Gathering Environmental Information | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:06-12:09 | Ryuichi Ueda, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Akinobu Hayashi and Tamio Arai | ||||||||||||||||
| 60 | Global Pose Estimation of Multiple Cameras with Particle Filters | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:09-12:12 | Christopher M. Clark, Ryan Morton and George A. Bekey | ||||||||||||||||
| 81 | Altruistic Relationships for Optimizing Task Fulfillment in Robot Communities | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:12-12:15 | Franc¸ois Rey , Michele Leidi and Francesco Mondada | ||||||||||||||||
| 72 | Interactive Mobile Robotic Drinking Glasses | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:15-12:18 | Samir Alili, Rachid Alami and Vincent Montreuil | ||||||||||||||||
| 67 | A Task Planner for an Autonomous Social Robot | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:18-12:21 | Yuichi Kobayashi, Masaki Onishi, Shigeyuki Hosoe and Zhiwei Luo | ||||||||||||||||
| 61 | Behavior Design of A Human-Interactive Robot through Parallel Tasks Optimization | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:21-12:24 | Zack Butler and Carlos Bribiescas | ||||||||||||||||
| 85 | Corridors for Robot Team Navigation | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:24-12:27 | Akira Ohshima and Shin’ichi Yuta | ||||||||||||||||
| 107 | Tracking and Following People and Robots in Crowded Environment by a Mobile Robot with SOKUIKI Sensor | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:27-12:30 | Shugen Ma, Changlong Ye, Bin Li and Yuechao Wang | ||||||||||||||||
| 38 | Reconfigurable Modular Universal Unit (MUU) for Mobile Robots | ||||||||||||||||
| Poster 2 Poster Session (9) | |||||||||||||||||
| 13:30 - 14:45 | |||||||||||||||||
| Plenary Talk 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 14:45 - 15:45 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chair: Jun Ota (The University of Tokyo) | |||||||||||||||||
| Professor Katsuhiro Nishinari (The University of Tokyo) | |||||||||||||||||
| Jamology - Study on jams of self-driven particles | |||||||||||||||||
| Multi-Robot Cooperation (5) | |||||||||||||||||
| 16:00-18:30 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chairs: Antonio Sgorbissa (University of Genoa), Yasumichi Aiyama (University of Tsukuba) | |||||||||||||||||
| 16:00-16:30 | Colin McMillen and Manuela Veloso | ||||||||||||||||
| 82 | Analysis of Multi-Robot Play Effectiveness and of Distributed Incidental Play Recognition | ||||||||||||||||
| 16:30-17:00 | Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Kenta Nohara, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita | ||||||||||||||||
| 28 | Adaptive Supervisory Control of a Communication Robot that Approaches Visitors | ||||||||||||||||
| 17:00-17:30 | Junji Takahashi, Kosuke Sekiyama and Toshio Fukuda | ||||||||||||||||
| 69 | Cooperative Object Tracking with Mobile Robotic Sensor Network | ||||||||||||||||
| 17:30-18:00 | Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Antonio Sgorbissa and Renato Zaccaria | ||||||||||||||||
| 98 | Distributed Context Assessment for Robots in Intelligent Environments | ||||||||||||||||
| 18:00-18:30 | Haiwei Dong and Zhiwei Luo | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Sparsing of Information Matrix for Practical Application of SLAM for Autonomous Robots | ||||||||||||||||
| 3rd day (Nov. 19) | |||||||||||||||||
| Plenary Talk 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:30 - 10:30 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chair: Hajime Asama (The University of Tokyo) | |||||||||||||||||
| Professor Alan FT Winfield (University of the West of England) | |||||||||||||||||
| Towards an Engineering Science of Robot Foraging | |||||||||||||||||
| OS: Practical Control of Modular Robots 1 (Organizer: Prof. Kasper Stoy (University of Southern Denmark)) (3) | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:45 - 12:15 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chair: Zack Butler (Rochester Institute of Technology) | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:45-11:15 | Paulina Varshavskaya, Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Daniela Rus | ||||||||||||||||
| 87 | Efficient Distributed Reinforcement Learning through Agreement | ||||||||||||||||
| 11:15-11:45 | David Johan Christensen, Mirko Bordignon, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Danish Shaikh and Kasper Stoy | ||||||||||||||||
| 62 | Morphology Independent Learning in Modular Robots | ||||||||||||||||
| 11:45-12:15 | Y. Suzuki N. Inou, M. Koseki, and H. Kimura | ||||||||||||||||
| 26 | Reconfigurable Modular Robots Adaptively Transforming a Mechanical Structure (Numerical Expression of Transformation Criteria of “CHOBIE II” and Motion Experiments) | ||||||||||||||||
| OS: Practical Control of Modular Robots 2 (Organizer: Prof. Kasper Stoy (University of Southern Denmark)) (4) | |||||||||||||||||
| 13:15 - 15:15 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chair: David J. Christensen (University of Southern Denmark) | |||||||||||||||||
| 13:15-13:45 | Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji Tomita, Akiya Kamimura and Satoshi Murata | ||||||||||||||||
| 27 | Toward Flexible and Scalable Self-Reconfiguration of M-TRAN | ||||||||||||||||
| 13:45-14:15 | Zack Butler and Eric Fabricant | ||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Reconfigurable Teams: Cooperative Goal Seeking with Self-Reconfigurable Robots | ||||||||||||||||
| 14:15-14:45 | “Deformable Wheel”-A Self-Recovering Modular Rolling Track | ||||||||||||||||
| 17 | Harris Chi Ho Chiu, Michael Rubenstein and Wei-Min Shen | ||||||||||||||||
| 14:45-15:15 | Kasper Stoy, David J. Christensen, David Brandt, Mirko Bordignon and Ulrik Pagh Schultz | ||||||||||||||||
| 16 | Exploit Morphology to Simplify Docking of Self-Reconfigurable Robots | ||||||||||||||||
| Multi-Robot Systems (3) | |||||||||||||||||
| 15:30 - 17:00 | |||||||||||||||||
| Chair: Toshimitsu Higashi (Murata Machinery LTD) | |||||||||||||||||
| 15:30-16:00 | Ryosuke Chiba, Tamio Arai and Jun Ota | ||||||||||||||||
| 96 | Design and Analysis for AGV Systems using Cooperative Co-evolution | ||||||||||||||||
| 16:00-16:30 | Junjie Zhang and Suhada Jayasuriya | ||||||||||||||||
| 90 | Cooperative Control of Multi-Robot Nonholonomic Systems with Dynamics Uncertainties and Control Time-Delays | ||||||||||||||||
| 16:30-17:00 | Alejandro R. Mosteo, Luis Montano, and Michail G. Lagoudakis | ||||||||||||||||
| 25 | Guaranteed-Performance Multi-Robot Routing under Limited Communication Range | ||||||||||||||||