We cordially invite you to submit your paper to the 1st International Workshop on Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics (RoboCom 2021)

Held in conjunction with the IEEE CCNC 2021 (https://ccnc2021.ieee-ccnc.org)

9 January 2021, Virtual Conference

Website: http://robocom2021.nws.cs.unibo.it/

- Submission extended deadline: November 6th, 2020
- Notification: November 23rd, 2020
- Camera ready: December 14th, 2020
- Workshop Day: January 9th, 2021

Extra features:
- Best Paper Award (BPA) sponsored by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) with a cash prize of 1,000 Euro.
- Best-selected papers related to mobile fog and edge computing applied to drone swarm will be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on “Mobile Fog and Edge Computing in Drone Swarms”, MDPI Drones journal
- Best-selected papers related to swarm robotics will be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Swarm Robotics”, MDPI Applied Sciences journal

EDAS link for submissions: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27779&track=103639

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CALL FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS
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Recent advances in the field of telecommunications and electronics have led to the proliferation of autonomous robots in numerous novel application fields, from emergency situations to military applications, from infrastructure inspection to ambient monitoring services, where the utilization of multiple robots is essential in order to accomplish the desired task. Recent works have demonstrated the challenges of coordinating multiple robots in order to deploy robot networks with self-configuration and self-healing capabilities to guarantee service continuity, also in case of failures.

Starting from the unique requirements of a multi robot system, Swarm Robotics is a complex approach that requires an understanding of how to define distributed systems to define self-organization behaviors. Swarm Robotics studies how to make robots collaborate and collectively solve a task where every robot contributes to the general task sharing the same higher-level objectives. To this end, communication wireless networks must be specifically designed in order to support the cooperation and collaboration inside the swarm.

This workshop invites original research articles and review articles that focus on communication networking problems in swarm robotics.

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TOPICS
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- Communication Models and Protocols for Swarm Robotics
- Delay-Tolerant Applications for Swarm Robotics
- Fog and Edge Computing in Swarm Robotics
- 5G Integration with Swarm Robotics
- Integration of Unmanned Aerial, Ground, and Underwater Vehicles in Swarm Robotics
- Localization, Navigation, and Dynamic Path Planning in Swarm Robotics
- Cooperative Control of Multiple Robots
- Security and Privacy in Swarm Robotics
- The Internet of Things (IoT) in Swarm Robotics
- Swarm Intelligence and Nature-Inspired Algorithm in Swarm Robotics
- Artificial Intelligence Applications in Swarm Robotics
- Continual Learning and Adaptation for Swarm Robotics


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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission extended deadline: November 6th, 2020
- Notification: November 23rd, 2020
- Camera ready: December 14th, 2020
- Workshop Day: January 9th, 2021

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs:
- Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy
- Gökhan Seçinti, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- Nicola Roberto Zema, University of Paris-Saclay, France
- Zhangyu Guan, University at Buffalo, USA

Technical Program Committee:
- Atakan Aral, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Berk Canberk, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- Brian M. Sadler, Army Research Laboratory, USA
- Eliseo Ferrante, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Emrecan Demirors, Northeastern University, USA
- Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine/Loria, France
- Evsen Yanmaz, Ozyegin University, Turkey
- Jithin Jagannath, ANDRO Computational Solutions, USA
- Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy
- Marcos Caetano, University of Brasilia, Brazil
- Melanie Schranz, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
- Muge Erel-Ozcevik, Celal Bayar University, Turkey
- Salvatore D’Oro, Northeastern University, USA
- Vincenzo Lomonaco, University of Bologna, Italy
- Yousof Naderi, Northeastern University, USA
- Zhi Sun, University at Buffalo, USA