To promote interaction, we will be running a live conference (with remote presenters appearing in real-time). All footage will be streamed, and we have arranged for the program to accommodate authors’ time-zones. A recording of the live footage will be made available to registered participants.
A detailed overview of the program can be found here.
The whole conference was recorded and is available on YouTube here.
Schedule
Thursday November 4th
| Time (GMT/UTC+0) | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:00-08:45 | Registration |
| 08:45-09:00 | Opening words |
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote (in-person) Andy Davison Title: A Robot Web for Distributed Localisation Introduced by Fumiya Iida |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Paper session 1 Chair: Lorenzo Sabattini |
| 12:00:13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:15 | Early career spotlight talk (in-person) Stefanie Gil Title: Situational Awareness and Secure Coordination for Multi-Robot Teams Introduced by Javier Alonso-Mora |
| 14:15-15:00 | Panel discussion Title: “Sim-to-lab-to-real”: A discussion on current challenges of transferring multi-robot technologies to real-world problems. Participants: Sabine Hauert (moderator) Russell Graves (industry participant; MathWorks) Michael Otte (panelist) Roderich Gross (panelist) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Paper session 2 Chair: Ajay Shankar |
| 18:30 – 22:00 | Gala dinner at Pembroke College Dress code: Business 18:45-19:30 Drinks at Old Library (Pembroke College) 19:30-22:00 Dinner in Main Hall (Pembroke College) |
Friday November 5th
| TIME (GMT/UTC+0) | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:45 | Paper session 3 Chair: Alex Raymond |
| 09:45-10:45 | Keynote (in-person) Shimon Whiteson Title: Centralised Training for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Introduced by Amanda Prorok |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-12:45 | Paper session 4 Chair: Masoumeh Mansouri |
| 12:45-14:15 | Lunch and poster session |
| 14:15-15:00 | Early career spotlight talk (virtual) Sylvia Herbert Title: Human-Inspired Safe and Efficient Control of Autonomous Systems Introduced by Mac Schwager |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:00 | Awards & closing remarks |
| 16:30-18:00 | Robotics@Cambridge: Tour and Demos |
Posters
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| A Context-Aware Simulator for Rapidly Evaluating Multi-Robot Systems | Charlie Street, Bruno Lacerda, Michal Staniaszek, Manuel Mühlig, Nick Hawes |
| Intrusion Detection and Response System in Swarm Robotics Clustering Algorithms | Mitali Gandhe, Michael W. Otte |
| Negotiated Path Planning for Non-Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems | Anna Gautier, Bruno Lacerda, Nick Hawes, Michael Wooldridge |
| Potential Fields in Multi-Robot Systems with Rare and Delayed State Updates | Agata Barciś, Michał Barciś, Christian Bettstetter |
| Area Coverage with Multiple Robots | Saurav Agarwal, Srinivas Akella |
Paper sessions
Session 1 (in person)
| TIME (GMT/UTC+0) | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30-10:45 | Non-Prehensile Cooperative Object Transportation with Omnidirectional Mobile Robots: Organization, Control, Simulation, and Experimentation | Henrik Ebel, Peter Eberhard |
| 10:45-11:00 | Cooperative Distributed Model Predictive Formation Control of Non Holonomic Robotic Agents | Mario Rosenfelder, Henrik Ebel, Peter Eberhard |
| 11:00-11:15 | Cooperative Multi-Agent Path Finding: Beyond Path Planning and Collision Avoidance | Nir Greshler, Ofir Gordon, Oren Salzman, Nahum Shimkin |
| 11:15-11:30 | On-Demand Grocery Delivery from Multiple Local Stores with Autonomous Robots | Maximilian Kronmueller, Andrés Fielbaum, Javier Alonso-Mora |
| 11:30-11:45 | Characterization of Grasp Configurations for Multi-Robot Object Pushing | Filippo Bertoncelli, Fabio Ruggiero, Lorenzo Sabattini |
| 11:45-12:00 | Speed-Vs Accuracy Tradeoff in Collective Estimation: An Adaptive Exploration Exploitation Case | Mohsen Raoufi, Heiko Hamann, Pawel Romanczuk |
Session 2 (remote US West)
| TIME (GMT/UTC+0) | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 15:30-15:45 | Distributed Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization for Collaborative Manipulation | Ola Shorinwa, Mac Schwager |
| 15:45-16:00 | Role Discovery in Observed Multi-Agent Systems Over Time through Matrix Factorization (Best Paper Finalists) | Brian Reily, Michael Don, John G. Rogers III, Christopher M. Reardon |
| 16:00-16:15 | Stochastic Assignment for Deploying Multiple Marsupial Robots | Chris (Yu Hsuan) Lee, Graeme Best, Geoffrey Hollinger |
| 16:15-16:30 | Learning Robot Swarm Tactics Over Complex Adversarial Environments (Best Paper Award) | Amir Behjat, Hemanth Manjunatha, Prajit Krisshna Kumar, Apurv Jani, Leighton Collins, Payam Ghassemi, Joseph Distefano, David Doermann, Karthik Dantu, Ehsan Esfahani, Souma Chowdhury |
| 16:30-16:45 | Reactive Multi Fitness Learning for Robust Multiagent Teaming | Connor Yates, Ayhan Alp Aydeniz, Kagan Tumer |
| 16:45-17:00 | BotNet: A Simulator for Studying the Effects of Accurate Communication Models on Multi Agent and Swarm Control (Best Student Paper Finalists) | Mark Selden, Jason Zhou, Felipe Campos, Nathan Lambert, Daniel S. Drew, Kristofer S. J. Pister |
Session 3 (in person)
| TIME (GMT/UTC+0) | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:15 | Distributed Self Assembly of Cantilevers by Force-Aware Robots (Best Student Paper Award) | Edward Bray, Roderich Gross |
| 9:15-9:30 | Decentralized Multi-Agent Strategy Synthesis under LTLf Specifications Via Exchange of Least-Limiting Advisers (Best Student Paper Finalists) | Georg Friedrich Schuppe, Jana Tumova |
| 9:30-9:45 | Online Decentralized Perception Aware Path Planning for Multi-Robot Systems | Nicola De Carli, Paolo Salaris, Paolo Robuffo Giordano |
Session 4 (remote US East)
| TIME (GMT/UTC+0) | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 11:15-11:30 | Multi-Robot Learning and Coverage of Unknown Spatial Fields | María Santos, Udari Madhushani, Alessia Benevento, Naomi Leonard |
| 11:30-11:45 | GVGExp: Communication Constrained Multi-Robot Exploration System Based on Generalized Voronoi Graphs | Kizito Masaba, Alberto Quattrini Li |
| 11:45-12:00 | Local Advantage Actor-Critic for Robust Multi Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (Best Paper Finalists) | Yuchen Xiao, Xueguang Lyu, Christopher Amato |
| 12:00-12:15 | Robust Perimeter Defense Using Control Barrier Functions | Luis Guerrero Bonilla, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Magnus Egerstedt |
| 12:15-12:30 | Parameter Identification for Multirobot Systems Using Optimization Based Controllers | Jaskaran Singh Grover, Changliu Liu, Katia Sycara |
| 12:30-12:45 | Design and Simulation of a Multi-Robot Architecture for Large-Scale Construction Projects | Vivek Thangavelu, Nils Napp |