IEEE Croatia Section, Robotics and Automation Chapter, along with the Centre of Research Excellence for Advanced Cooperative Systems (ACROSS), organized a half-day workshop consisting of three talks. The first talk was given by our Frano Petric, the second by Dr Daniel Lofaro, and the third by Maja Varga.
In the first talk entitled Towards cooperative human-robot societies, Frano Petric gave and overview of research performed with NAO robots in LARICS and presented the goals of the ADORE project. Following Frano’s talk, Prof. Daniel Lofaro from LofaroLabs at the George Mason University, USA, gave a talk entitled Team DRC-Hubo: International Collaboration using a Three Phase Design Cycle through which he showed the evolution of the Hubo Humanoid Robot from a research platform to a DARPA Robot Challenge (DRC) ready system. The workshop was closed by the talk given by Maja Varga from EPFL, CH. The talk was entitled Formation algorithm in swarms of fixed wing flying robots and presented a distributed and decentralised control strategy that allows the fixed wing robots to fly in formation, relying only on local information between robots.