Program

Call For Papers

Recent developments in sensing and actuation technology, along with the miniaturization of computing and communication, have led to the development of commodity robot technology such as hobby drones and robot toolkits. These platforms are bringing sensing and actuation at places where traditional technology does not reach; for example, for aerial pollution monitoring or for disaster management in remote areas.

This novel class of cyber-physical systems (CPS) take many of the design, implementation, and validation issues of traditional CPSs to an extreme. Control, sensing, estimation, and algorithms for localization, mapping, navigation, and exploration of individual robots are needed to govern their movements. The timing aspects of vehicle operation are key to provide run-time guarantees about performance. The software design and implementation must lead to provably correct execution. Noisy or inaccurate information sensed by the robots must be properly handled to ensure an accurate understanding of the environment.

Research efforts to address the issues above, while related, have previously progressed independently with little cross-fertilization across diverse disciplines such as robotics, real-time systems, signal processing, and software development. The goal of this workshop is to create a platform where researchers from different communities can get together to better understand the latest developments in these related fields as well as to establish connections for future interdisciplinary work. The workshop intends to provide a platform to enable such cross-fertilization, to ultimately speed up the development of the field and to foster rich interdisciplinary work in the future. Particularly, co-location with the Cyber-Physical Systems week will be an asset in this regard. CPSWEEK is the premiere CPS event that brings together five top conferences from complementary areas such as Embedded Systems, Real-time Systems, Sensor Networks, Hybrid Systems, and Networked Systems.

To build the needed interdisciplinary work ultimately necessary to the development of the field, the workshop seeks technical contributions describing original, previously unpublished results in all topics related to the design of robotic sensor networks, including works across two or more of the following topic areas:

• Programming of robot swarms
• Low-power communication in robot networks
• Sensing coverage using robotic swarms
• Task allocation
• Distributed sensing
• Coordination in robotic swarms
• Verification and validation
• Distributed planning and navigation
• Novel applications
• Experience reports

Submission Guidelines
We invite to submit short papers in PDF format, of at most 4 pages in length including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, and using a minimum of 10-pt font. The following templates provide a paper format already compliant with these requirements:
Latex
Word (after 2003)
Word 2003 compatible

Submission site: http://rsn14.sv.cmu.edu/

Deadlines
Submission deadline: Feb 14, 2014. Feb 21, 2014. (extended)
Notifications : Mar 5, 2014.
Workshop : Apr 14, 2014, at 2pm.

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Workshop Organizers

Karthik Dantu, University at Buffalo
Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano and SICS Swedish ICT
Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University

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Program Committee

• Filippo Arrichiello (UNICAS, Italy)
• Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
• Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre Bruxelles, Belgium)
• Andrea Gasparri (Universita degli Studi "Roma Tre", Italy)
• Ramiro Martinez (University of Seville, Spain)
• Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Michael Rubenstein (Harvard University, USA)
• Brian Sadler (ARL, USA)

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