Program

9:00 am

Introduction: workshop goals

9:10 am

Focused interaction session
Pairwise interactions to find common models and algorithms
9:45 am

Invited talk: Collective decision-making by ant colonies: Linking group and individual behavior
Stephen Pratt
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

10:30 am

Coffee break

10:45 am

Invited talk: Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems
Sonia Martinez Diaz
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), University of California at San Diego

11:30 am

Short research presentations

Rational swarms for distributed on-line bayesian search
Alfredo Garcia, Chenyang Li and Fernan Pedraza
[ pdf ] [ system ]

Macroscopic information processing in natural systems as an insight for swarm robotics
Dylan Shell and Maja Mataric [ pdf ] [ system ]

Genetic structure and cohesion of insect societies
Michael Goodisman [ pdf ] [ system 1 system 2 ]

Energy-efficient multi-robot rendezvous: Parallel solutions by embodied approximation
Yaroslav Litus, Pawel Zebrowski and Richard T. Vaughan
[ pdf ] [ system ]

Roadmap-based group behaviors
S. Rodriguez, R. Salazar, N.M. Amato, O.B. Bayazit, and J.-M. Lien [ pdf ] [ system ]

12:30 pm

Even shorter research presentations

Complexity metrics for distributed algorithms on multi-robot systems
James McLurkin [ text ] [ system ]

Agreement in distributed reinforcement learning
Paulina Varshavskaya [ text ] [ system ]
12:40 pm Lunch

2:00 pm

Collaborative brainstorming:
Biological Systems and Robotic Techniques 101
(led by James McLurkin and Paulina Varshavskaya)

2:45 pm

Coffee break
3:00 pm

Discussion: Finding uses and applications for mathematical tools in robotics and biology: parallels and equivalences.

3:30 pm

Discussion: Language gap, differences, reconciliation.

4:00 pm Discussion: Most profitable areas of collaboration, study plan.

4:30 pm

Wrap-up

Discussion topics tentative and subject to change with the flow of the workshop.