Conference Day Two: Wednesday 26th May 2010

08.30 Registration And Coffee

09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Frank Schneider
NATO Chair of Applied Interoperability and Autonomy for Military Unmanned Systems
Research Establishment of Applied Science, Germany

09.10 Current And Near-Term Unmanned Ground System (UGS) Procurement In The US Army And US Marine Corps

  • Successes and issues with the current fleet and their sustainment
  • Short-term plan for requirements-based UGS procurement
  • Long-term plan for UGS procurement with emphasis on commonality

Major Kevin Schrock
Assistant Project Manager
Robotic Systems Joint Project Office, United States

09.50 Military Robots In A Coalition Environment

  • Capabilities and requirements
  • Integration with NATO Systems and Architectures
  • Interoperability standards
  • Potential applications

Dr. Çagatay Soyer
Principal Scientist
NATO C3 Agency, Netherlands

10.30 Coffee And Networking Break

11:00 Progress In Affective Human-Robot Interaction

  • Development of natural, affective Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) with a view to building future ubiquitous computing systems (Ubicom)
  • Human-Human interaction as the template for Human Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • The importance of computer vision in the development of HCI and HRI

Juha Roning
Head of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Oulu
Finland

11.40 Field Proven Unmanned Ground System

Mr. Erez Peled
CEO
G-NIUS Unmanned Ground Systems (UGS) LTD

12.20 Lunch And Networking

13.30 An Overview Of The French Approach In Robotics

  • Overview of the outlooks in ground robotics
  • The complementary factors between unmanned ground vehicles and mini-aerial vehicles
  • Similarities between the two domains in terms of technical knowledge
  • Strategy of the DGA: towards a single department that will carry out coherent shared actions on both subjects

Aurelien Godin
Ground Robot Systems
DGA, France

14.10 Dutch Unmanned Ground Vehicle Research Topics

  • Telepresence experiments
  • Human Factor issues with military UGVs
  • Simultane ous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM)

Peter Hiemstra
Programme Manager Ground Robotics
TNO

14.50 Coffee And Networking Break

15.20 Integrating A Fully Autonomous UGV Into A Cooperative System

  • The benefits of autonomous UGVs and the multiplier effect on system performance when integrated into a true cooperative systems
  • Benefits and challenges of integrating an autonomous agent into a co-operative system
  • SwRI’s Cooperative Sensor Sharing and Cooperative Convoy Systems as case studies

Ryan Lamm
Manager, Intelligent Vehicle Systems R&D
Southwest Research Institute, United States

16.00 High-Level Technology To Manage Distributed Robotised Systems

  • Spatial scenarios for collective ground robotics: Goal-driven intelligent swarming
  • Distributed Scenario Language and its collective interpretation in networked teams
  • Effective integration of manned and unmanned units within the force mix
  • Asymmetric robotised solutions of asymmetric problems on advanced battlefields

Dr. Peter Sapaty
Chief Research Scientist
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

16:40 Centralised Versus Decentralised Multi-Robot Co-Operation In Urban Surveillance Missions

  • Description of the EDA project NMRS (Networked Multi-Robot Systems)
  • Centralised multi-robot cooperation
  • Decentralised multi-robot cooperation
  • Results, comparison and evaluation of both approaches

Dr. Eric Colon
Head of UGV Centre
Royal Military School Belgium

17:20 Closing Remarks And End Of Conference

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