Publication 2016: Three papers accepted at the The International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC)

The MoreLab has three papers accepted to present at the International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), Hanoi, Vietnam, October 12-14, 2016.  The papers can be downloaded and cited as follows:

An Online Local Boundary Detection and Classification Algorithm for Networked Multi-Robot Systems, Pham Duy Hung, Tran Quang Vinh, and Trung Dung Ngo, the International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), Hanoi, Vietnam, October 12-14, 2016.

Musicbot: Edutainment with a Reconfigurable Robotic System, Tung Van Le, Pham Duy Hung, and Trung Dung Ngo, the International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), Hanoi, Vietnam, October 12-14, 2016.

A Variant of the Cyclic Pursuit Scheme for Consensus in Multi-agent Systems, Mohammad Iqbal, Pham Duy Hung, Joth Leth, and Trung Dung Ngo, the International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), Hanoi, Vietnam, October 12-14, 2016.

Publication 2016: A paper accepted at the IEEE Int. Conf. on Real-Time Computing and Robotics.

The MoreLab has a paper accepted to present at the IEEE Int. Conf. on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, June 6-10 2016, Angkor Wat, Cambodia. The paper can be downloaded and cited as follow:

Culturally Aware Robot Navigation, Xuan Tung Truong, Yongsheng Ou, and Trung Dung Ngo, IEEE Int. Conf. on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, June 6-10 2016, Angkor Wat, Cambodia.

Publication 2016: Four papers accepted at the IEEE. Int. Conf on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics

The MoreLab has four papers accepted to present at the the IEEE. Int. Conf on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics.  The papers can be downloaded and cited as follows:

Distributed Coverage Control for Networked Multi-robot Systems for Any Environments, Pham Duy Hung, Tran Quang Vinh, and Trung Dung Ngo, IEEE. Int. Conf on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Banff, Canada, July 12-16, 2016. [Pre-print]

Leader-Following Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems under Hierarchical Nearly Cyclic Pursuit, Muhammad Iqbal, John Leth, Trung Dung Ngo, IEEE. Int. Conf on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Banff, Canada, July 12-16, 2016. [Pre-print]

Approaching Humans in Crowded and Dynamic Environments, Xuan Tung Truong, Voo Nyuk Yoong, Trung Dung Ngo, IEEE. Int. Conf on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Banff, Canada, July 12-16, 2016. [Pre-print]

A Distributed Communication Protocol for Modular Robotic Systems, Van Tung Le and Trung Dung Ngo, IEEE. Int. Conf on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Banff, Canada, July 12-16, 2016. [Pre-print]

Publication 2016: A journal paper accepted on Int. Journal of of Control, Automation and Systems

Our paper has been accepted to appear in the International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, Springer Verlag. The pre-print version can be downloadable and the paper can be cited as follows:

Generalized Hierarchical Block Circulant Structure of Multi-agent Systems, Mohammad Iqbal, John Leth, and Trung Dung Ngo, International Journal of Control, Automation, and System, Springer Verlag, 2016. [URL] [Pre-print]

Publication 2016: A journal paper published on the International Journal of Social Robotics

Our paper has been appearing in the International Journal of Social Robotics. The pre-print version can be downloaded and the paper can be cited as follows:

Dynamic Social Zone based Mobile Robot Navigation for Human Comfortable Safety in Social Environments, Xuan Tung Truong and Trung Dung Ngo, International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer Verlag, DOI 10.1007/s12369-016-0352 [URL] [Pre-print]

An Invited Talk at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science

Dr. Trung recently gave an invited talk hosted by Dr. Yongsheng Ou at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science.

His talk was about 'Hierarchical Decentralised Control of Large-Scale Networked Robotic Systems: Modelling, Simulation and Real Systems' - a joint work with Pham Duy Hung.

Publication 2015: A Journal paper published on Int. Journal of Sensor Networks

The MoreLab has a paper accepted to publish on the Int. Journal of Sensor Network. The paper can be downloaded and cited as follow:

Coordinated Communication and Position Aware Route Reconfiguration for Throughput Optimisation in Mobile Sensor Networks, Adnan Fida, Nor Jaidi Tuah, and Trung Dung Ngo, Int. J. of Sensor Networks, 2015. [PDF]

Publication 2015: A paper accepted at the IEEE-ROBIO 2015

The MoreLab has a paper accepted to present at the IEEE ROBIO 2015 at Zhuhai, China. The paper can be downloaded and cited as follow:

RGB-D and Laser Data Fusion-based Human Detection and Tracking for Socially Aware Robot Navigation Framework, Xuan-Tung Truong, Voo Nyuk Yoong, Trung Dung Ngo, in the preceding of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Zhuhai, China, December 6-9, 2015 [PDF] [Slides]

Annual lab photo 2015

 Iqbal, Tung Truong, Bacha, Hung, Tung Le, Trung

Call for papers for a special issue of Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Human Safety and Comfort in Human-Robot Shared Workspaces: 

From Sensing and Perception to MotionPlanning and Control

Mobile service robots are becoming enabling assistive technologies as co-workers in social environments. However, the first and the most challenging issue to deploy mobile service robots in human populated environments is about how to guarantee human safety and comfort in human-robot shared workspaces. Human physical safety is about how to maintain the minimum physical distance between robots and human while human psychological safety implies that robots are not allowed to cause stress and discomfort to humans. Human risks and their inconveniences when working in human-robot shared workspaces essentially come from unavoidable attack of the robots due to malfunctioning operations caused by either misunderstanding and misinterpreting information extracted from sensing and perception or failures of path planning and motion control. Hence, such functional components and their incorporation play crucial roles on securing human physical and psychological safety in social environments.

This Frontier research topic aims at gathering the original contributions about sensing, perception, motion planning, control techniques of mobile service robots for human safety and comfort in social environments. We would like to invite all papers with theoretical and experimental results within, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Current state of the art of human safety and comfort in social environments
• New hardware and software for human safety in social environments
• System design and integration for human safety and comfort in social environments
• New safety rules for human safety in human-robot shared workspaces (beyond the Proxemics – Hall’s model)
• Human face and body detection and tracking
• Human gesture and posture recognition
• Human detection and tracking techniques
• Human-object interaction detection and tracking
• Human interacting group detection and tracking
• Sensor fusion techniques to extract social cues and signals
• Learning algorithms for interpretation of social signals and cues in contexts
• Human aware robot navigation techniques
• Human avoiding and approaching techniques
• Human-robot interaction in proximities
• Path planning and motion planning for mobile service robots in social environments
• Robot navigation in dense human crowds
• Control engineering applied for services mobile robots
• Real-time control and optimization of robot operations in social environments
• Applications of mobile service robots in social environments

Important dates:

Extended abstract: 31.December 2015

Full submission: 31 September 2016

http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/4421/human-safety-and-comfort-in-human-robot-shared-workspaces-from-sensing-and-perception-to-motion-plan