Connectionists: hybrid (online/physical) IEEE Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems (UAVs), August 1-5, 2022, call for online participation

Wed Jul 20 13:32:40 EDT 2022

Based on numerous requests from countries affected by COVID with travel 
restrictions and students with insufficient traveling funding, the IEEE 
Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems with real UAV experiments will 
allow both physical and virtual participation. All lectures, meetings, 
demos, and practical courses (including the students' experiments in 
real-world conditions) will be provided also online so that online 
participants will receive an equivalent amount of information and 
knowledge as the students being physically in Prague. Representatives of 
almost all robotic labs worldwide have registered to the school (so far 
we have 220 registrations) but only people from Europe and a few other 
countries can come physically and it would not be fair to exclude 
students from almost the entire Asia for example. But we believe the 
online possibility may help also many people from Europe.

If you or your students/colleagues consider participation at the school, 
I recommend you to register asap 
http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school-2022/apply.htmlsince the week of 
the school is coming soon.

The Summer School is proper for last year's bachelor’s students, 
master’s students, and Ph.D. students, but we would also like to invite 
young scientists from both industry and academia working in the field of 
Aerial Robotics and Multi Agent Systems. Mainly the planned experiments 
with a fleet of real UAVs realized by students (online as well as 
physical) during the Summer School practicals could be within their 
interest.

You can find more details about the Summer School in the call for 
participation, below this email.

Best Regards,

Martin

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Following the great success of Summer Schools in Singapore, 2016 and in 
Prague, 2019 & 2020 the MRS RAS technical committee is organising 2022 
IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems 
http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school-2022/ with real-world UAV 
experiments which will be held again at the campus of Czech Technical 
University located at the heart of the historic city of Prague.

The Summer School aims to promote the newest achievements in multi-robot 
systems, aerial and swarm robotics to students, academic researchers, 
and industrial practitioners to enable putting systems of cooperating 
robots into practice. The content of the Summer School will be focused 
but not limited to systems of cooperating aerial vehicles. The topics 
addressed by well-recognised experts in the field of Multi-Robot Systems 
are composed to provide the participants necessary knowledge for 
understanding the available theory and for realisation real-world 
experiments with a fleet of autonomous micro aerial vehicles in the last 
day of the Summer School. This year the school will be focused 
on deployment of MRS in real-world conditions being motivated by EU 
AERIAL-CORE https://aerial-core.eu project and DARPA SubT challenge 
www.subtchallenge.com <http://www.subtchallenge.com/>

The school is considered for presence participants primarily since a 
minimal amount of COVID cases and no travel restrictions were 
experienced in the Czech Republic in July-August in 2020 and 2021. 
Nevertheless, we will allow also virtual participation for students from 
countries with travel restrictions or limitations.

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2022 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems

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WHERE:                             Prague, Czech Republic

WHEN:                               August 1-5, 2022

HOW TO APPLY:               Submit CV, personal information, and a brief 
statement of interest through:

https://forms.gle/ehFe6Beesv1LfHKC6

Include title and abstract of your short talk if you are interested in 
providing a talk on your research (optional)

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:  Graduate students (master or PhD) and students (Bc.) 
at an advanced stage of their university courses. R&D professionals.

An accredited course equivalent to 2 ECTS

FEE:                                 Students: 440 € + 92.4 € VAT

                                         Academic participants: 510 € + 
107.1 € VAT

                                         Industry participants: 590 € + 
123.9 € VAT

* The fee includes all lectures, practicals with real robots, lunches, 
refreshments, welcome drinks, banquet, farewell drinks, and social 
programs - guided tour in Prague's Old Town

LECTURERS:

Konstantinos Alexis. Professor at Norwegian university of science and 
technology. Winner of DARPA SubT challenge - motivating Summer School 
experiments http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school-2022/outdoor.html
Rachid Alami. Senior Scientist (Directeur de Recherche) at Laboratory 
for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS)
Aníbal Ollero. Professor at the University of Seville. Principal 
investigator of Aerial Core - motivating Summer School experiments 
http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school-2022/outdoor.html
Tomáš Svoboda. Professor at the Czech Technical University in 
Prague. 2nd place at virtual DARPA SubT challenge - motivating Summer 
School experiments http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school-2022/outdoor.html
Alyssa Pierson. Professor at Boston University
Guido de Croon. Professor at Delft University of Technology
Vito Trianni. Senior researcher at Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie 
della Cognizione
Lino Forte Marques. Professor at University of Coimbra

PRACTICALS:

Tomáš Báča, Czech Technical University: Outdoor experiments with swarms 
of micro aerial vehicles 
http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school-2022/outdoor.html
Robert Pěnička, Czech Technical University: ROS and Gazebo for 
verification of multirobot systems

ORGANIZERS:

Martin Saska, Czech Technical University, Summer School Chair
Robert Fitch, The University of Sydney, Technical Committee and Advisory 
Board
Nora Ayanian, University of Southern California, Technical Committee and 
Advisory Board
Antonio Franchi, University of Twente, Technical Committee and Advisory 
Board
Lorenzo Sabatini, University of Modena, Technical Committee and Advisory 
Board
Jen Jen Chung, ETH Zürich, Technical Committee and Advisory Board
Changjoo Nam,  Inha University, Technical Committee and Advisory Board
Javier Alonso-Mora, Delft University of Technology, Technical Committee 
and Advisory Board
Alyssa Pierson, Boston University, Technical Committee and Advisory Board

WEB PAGE: http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school-2022/

CONTACT: mrs at fel.cvut.cz

Best regards on behalf of organizers and IEEE RAS MRS TC,
Martin

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Dr. Martin Saska

Head of Multi-robot Systems Group
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague
Karlovo náměstí 13
CZ 121 35 Prague 2

Office: E120
Voice: +420-776241932
http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/
http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/people/martin-saska
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