Prof. Yan Meng (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology) and Prof. Yaochu Jin (Honda Research Institute Europe) are organizing a special workshop on "Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems" during the next ICRA 2010 conference. The conference will hold from May 3 to May 8, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. The workshop will be scheduled on May 3.
Call for papers is available here along with a summary of the objectives of this workshop. In short,
This half-day workshop aims to bring together new theories and methodologies inspired by biological principles for self-organizing robotic systems. The emphasis of the workshop is on bridging multi-disciplinary research areas such as robotics, artificial life, systems biology, and evolutionary computation. Topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Morphogenetic approaches to self-organizing multi-robot systems
- Morphogenetic approaches to modular robots
- Evolutionary and developmental approaches to design of robot body-plan and controller
- Self-organized multi-robot pattern formation and boundary coverage
- Stigmergy in self-organized collective construction
- Swarm intelligence based approaches to multi-robot systems
- Unified approaches to self-assembling swarm and modular robots
- Evolutionary multi-robot organism
- Robustness, self-reparability and evolvability of self-organizing multi-robot systems
Important dates to remember are:
- Submission deadline: February 25, 2010
- Author notification: March 6, 2010
- Final version due: March 12, 2010
- Workshop: May 3, 2010
By the way, I'm giving a talk there.
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