IROBOT 2013 - Intelligent Robotics

IROBOT 2013 poses itself as a follow-up on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd , 4th and 5th International Thematic Tracks/Workshops on Intelligent Robotics ? IROBOT 2005 (held at EPIA 2005), IROBOT 2007 (held at EPIA 2007), IROBOT 2008 (held at IBERAMIA 2008), IROBOT 2009 (held at EPIA 2009) and IROBOT 2011 (held at EPIA 2011). As in previous editions, its main purpose is to bring together researchers, engineers and other professionals interested in the application of AI techniques in real/simulated robotics to discuss current work and future directions. Each edition tries to promote a focal debate theme.
Robotics, from the point of view of AI, has been an important application field, from which AI has also gained. Namely the dynamic and unforeseen nature of the environment, especially for mobile robots, has fostered research in these aspects of AI. Together with the developments in Robotics Research, the use of Robotics in industry has changed a lot in recent years. New paradigms and approaches for industrial robotics have emerged namely for mobile robots localization and navigation in unstructured environments. Industries have to produce items that are increasingly customized by the client and in short lots. Hence, the classical paradigm of a robotic manipulator performing a repetitive task is changing to flexible, adaptable and mobile robots that can recognize the task and the environment and adapt their behaviours accordingly. The adaptation and application of AI techniques to Industrial Robotics will constitute the focaltheme of the IROBOT’2013 thematic track. This topic will be the subject of a panel discussion led by well known researchers with vast experience in robotics and their different applications.
Topics of Interest
The Thematic Track will be structured around the following themes:
- Adaptive and flexible industrial robotics
- AI Planning for robotics
- Autonomous vehicles
- Cognitive robotics
- Computer vision and object recognition
- Coordination in robotics
- Evolutionary robotics and reactive intelligence
- Human-robots interaction
- Humanoid robotics
- Intelligent buildings and warehouses
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Learning and adaptation in robotics
- Mobile robots localization and navigation
- Modelling and simulating complex robots
- Multi-Robot systems
- Field Robots
- Real-time reactivity
- Robot behaviour engineering
- Robotic surveillance
- Sensor fusion