Workshop @ European Robotics Forum 2024

Rimini, Italy - March 15, 2024

Aim and Scope

Material handling is a key step in several industrial manufacturing processes both in production and logistics. The introduction of multiple Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) aims at enhancing flexibility with respect to standard rigid production lines and vehicle fleets. Moreover, cooperation among robots based on distributed computing combined with new control, optimization and AI approaches, represents a new frontier to advance the AMR capabilities. This workshop will show recent advancements in research methods and toolboxes on cooperative autonomous mobile robots and link them to state of the art scenarios in industrial applications. The goal of the workshop is to promote interaction between researchers in mobile robotics and technology providers in the area of AMRs to identify potential solution approaches for open challenges. By connecting a diverse set of stake holders, the workshop will suggest novel directions, e.g., based on distributed computing, to generalise current toolboxes and technologies.

Keynote Speakers

Full Professor at University of Pisa & Director of Centro di Ricerca "E. Piaggio"

Ugo Rosolia

Research Science Manager at Amazon

Luigi Palmieri

Group leader at Bosch Research, Group Reinforcement Learning and Behavior Learning (Artificial Intelligence Research department).