IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems and UAVs in Prague, July 29 – August 2, 2024
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Following the great success of Summer Schools in Prague, 2019, 2020, 2022 & 2023, the MRS RAS technical committee is organising 2024 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school-2024/ which will be held again at the campus of Czech Technical University located at the heart of the historic city of Prague, in July 29 – August 2, 2024.
The Summer School aims to promote the newest achievements in multi-robot systems and swarm robotics to students, academic researchers, and industrial practitioners to enable putting systems of cooperating robots into practice. The content of the Summer School will be focused but not limited to systems of cooperating aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground robots (UGVs). The topics addressed by well-recognised experts in the field of Multi-Robot Systems are composed to provide the participants necessary knowledge for understanding the available theory and for realisation of real-world experiments with a fleet of autonomous micro aerial vehicles on the last day of the Summer School. This year the school will be focused on deployment of MRS in real-world conditions being motivated by cooperative inspection in challenging outdoor scenarios with high density of obstacles.
The school is primarily considered for in person participation since the networking of students is an important part of the event. The last editions have attended more than 600 students from the best robotic groups worldwide who are still actively cooperating. Nevertheless, we will also allow virtual participation for students from countries with travel restrictions or limitations.
Students can apply through this form: forms.gle/Z1fT1nZkkFeR3qji6
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2024 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems
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WHERE: Prague, Czech Republic
WHEN: July 29 – August 2, 2024
DEADLINE: April 20, 2024
HOW TO APPLY: Submit CV, personal information, and a brief statement of interest through: forms.gle/Z1fT1nZkkFeR3qji6
Include title and abstract of your short talk if you are interested in providing a talk on your research (optional)
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Graduate students (master or PhD) and students (Bc.) at an advanced stage of their university courses. R&D professionals.
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REGISTRATION FEE:
Students: € 665,50 (€ 550 excl. VAT)
Academic participants: € 762,30 (€ 630 excl. VAT)
Industry participants: € 883,30 (€ 730 excl. VAT)
* The fee includes all lectures, practicals with real robots, lunches, refreshments, welcome drinks, banquet, farewell drinks, and social programs – guided tour in Prague’s Old Town
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LECTURERS:
Andrew Davison. Professor of Robot Vision at Imperial College London. SLAM and its evolution towards general `Spatial AI’.
Sebastian Scherer. Professor at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Enabling autonomy of MRS in challenging environments.
Alcherio Martinoli. Professor at the Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Design, control, model, and optimize distributed multi-robot systems, sensor and actuator networks, and intelligent vehicles.
Shreekant Thakkar. Chief Research at the Secure Systems Research Centre at the Technology Innovation Institute. Security and resilience in swarm of drones.
Stefano V. Albrecht. Professor in Artificial Intelligence, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Head of the Autonomous Agents Research Group. Machine learning for MRS control and decision making.
TBD. 2 more lecturers will be announced after the program finalization.
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ORGANIZERS:
Martin Saska, Czech Technical University, Summer School Chair
Jen Jen Chung, ETH Zürich, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC co-chair)
Changjoo Nam, Inha University, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC co-chair)
Javier Alonso-Mora, Delft University of Technology, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC co-chair)
Alyssa Pierson, Boston University, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC co-chair)
Robert Fitch, The University of Sydney, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC emeritus chair)
Nora Ayanian, University of Southern California, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC emeritus chair)
Antonio Franchi, University of Twente, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC emeritus chair)
Lorenzo Sabatini, University of Modena, Technical Committee and Advisory Board (RAS TC emeritus chair)