Second International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination, Odense, Dänemark

<p>The Second International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination targets the convergence of robotics and communications, acting as a common forum for the two communities&#046; The event will promote cross&#8211;pollination of these two areas, adding to our understanding of the interaction between these two exciting computer science research areas&#046;</p> <p>Robotics is an interdisciplinary field, having benefited greatly from interactions with mechanics, control theory, and electronics&#046; Lately, with the unprecedented growth of wireless communication technologies, the growing attention devoted to sensor networks and ad&#8211;hoc networks, and the emergence of commodity robotics platforms, networked robotics represents an exciting new research direction&#046;</p> <p>Networked robotics offers a framework for coordination of complex mobile systems, thus providing the natural common ground for convergence of information processing, communication theory and control theory&#046; It poses significant challenges, requiring the integration of communication theory, software engineering, distributed sensing and control into a common framework&#046; Furthermore, robots are unique in that their motion and tasking control systems are co&#8211;located with the communications mechanisms&#046; This allows the co&#8211;exploitation of individual subsystems to provide completely new kinds of networked or distributed autonomy&#046;</p>