Morning Session
"Communication architectures for collaborative robot systems"

9:00 - 10:00

Keynote talk (45 min + 15 min Q/A)
 Multi-Robot-Networking for Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR): Challenges and Prospects
Andreas Birk (International University Bremen, Germany)

10:00 - 10:25

Challenges in Realizing Ad-Hoc Networks based on Wireless LAN with Mobile Robots
Florian Zeiger, Nikolaus Kraemer, Markus Sauer and Klaus Schilling (University of  Wuerzburg, Germany)

10:25 - 10:50

Autonomous Biconnected Networks of Mobile Robots
Jesse Butterfield (Brown University), Karthik Dantu (University of Southern California, USA), Brian Gerkey (SRI International),
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins (Brown University), and Gaurav S. Sukhatme (University of Southern California, USA)

10:50 - 11:05

Coffee Break

11:05 - 11:30

Wireless Control of Mobile Robot Squad with Link Failure
Mikael Pohjola, Shekar Nethi and Riku Jäntti (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

11:30 - 11:55

Delay-Tolerant Communication using Mobile Robotic Helper Nodes
Daniel Henkel and Timothy X Brown (University of Colorado, USA)

11:55 - 13:30

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session
"Multiple robot networking with multihop- and cooperative communications"

13:30 - 13:55

A Distributed Coordination System for Modular Reconfigurable Robots
Zhicheng Deng (Nokia Research Center, China) and Wei Wang (Beihang University, China)

13:55 - 14:20

Multi-robot Path-finding in a Random Maze with Multihop Communications
Sujin Park, Jin Hong Jung and Seong-Lyun Kim (Yonsei University, Korea)

14:20 - 14:35

Coffee Break

14:35 - 15:00

Including Communication Success in the Estimation of Information Gain for Multi-robot Exploration
Arnoud Visser, Bayu A. Slamet (Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands)

15:00 - 15:25

The Spinning Problem
Bogdan Munteanu, Richard Borie (University of Alabama, USA) and Grzegorz Malewicz (Google Inc., USA)