Abstract:

    In the pursuit of sustainable development, the efficient management of logistics and the reliable inspection of critical infrastructure are paramount. Multi-robot systems offer promising solutions to address these challenges by enhancing operational efficiency, reducing environmental impact, and ensuring the safety and reliability of essential infrastructure. Advancements in multi-robot systems, including autonomous car fleets, drones swarm for inspection, and logistic robot systems, hold promise for enhancing daily life by improving automation efficiency.
    However, deploying robotic systems in groups poses challenges such as cost-effective perception implementation, dealing with measurement uncertainties, real-time dynamic planning, and interactions with other agents. Developing such multi-robot perception and navigation systems is often time- and resource-demanding, rendering this field less explored by the majority of the academic community. We identify a significant domain gap in this area that has yet to be fulfilled.
    Through collaborative learning, hands-on challenges, and discussions on real-world applications, participants will gain valuable insights and tools to drive innovation in robotics, ultimately contributing to creating more sustainable and resilient societies. We anticipate that user-friendly, cost-effective simula-tion evaluation environments will enhance access to explo-ration, planning, and control research and accelerate progress through quantitative comparisons to existing benchmarks.

Important Date:

(All dates and time are in GMT+7)

1.Competition Related:

• Last day to register for the challenge 24th September 2024.
• Last day to update your code 29th September 2024.
• Annoucement of results 4th October 2024.
• Workshop date 13th October 2024.

2.Workshop Paper Related:

• Submission site opens: May 1st, 2024
• Submission deadline: September 20th, 2024
• Notice of acceptance: September 27th, 2024

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Organizers:

Thien-Minh Nguyen

Research Assistant
Professor
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University

Muqing Cao

Research Fellow
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University

Shenghai Yuan

Research Fellow
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University

Xinhang Xu

Research Assistant
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University

Lihua Xie

Professor
Director for Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology Innovation (CARTIN)
President's Chair in Control Engineering
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University

Ben M. Chen

Professor
Vice-Chairman (Graduate)
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong