MONUSEN Center organizes lectures in the field of robotics and multi-robot systems
Within the implementation of the "Montenegrin Center for Underwater Sensor Networks - MONUSEN" project, which is financed by the European Union (the Horizon Europe program, i.e. the key program of the European Union for funding research and innovation in the period from 2021 to 2027) lectures for researchers in the field of robotics and multi-robot systems will be organized on November 16 and 17, 2023. As a reminder, the MONUSEN project, in the scientific part, enables the application of modern technologies such as blockchain, automatic control techniques and machine learning to improve the security, communication and management aspects of underwater sensor networks.
The lectures will be held by Barbara Arbanas Ferreira, PhD and Asst. Prof. Fausto Ferreira from the University of Zagreb - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER). Dr. Barbara Arbanas Ferreira is a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST) at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER). She received her PhD in February 2022 from the UNIZG-FER on the topic of Decentralized Coordination of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems under the supervision of Prof. Stjepan Bogdan. Her interests include multi-robot coordination and planning, distributed artificial intelligence, scheduling and optimization. Dr. Fausto Ferreira is an Assistant Professor UNIZG-FER. His research activities are conducted within the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST). He has been involved in 15 EU Projects (FP6, FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe, INTERREG, Erasmus+) and 2 Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) projects (including a Visiting Scientist Program grant). Dr. Ferreira is a senior member of IEEE and the Vice-President of Workshops and Symposia of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES). His research interests include underwater computer vision, sonar processing, marine law for unmanned marine vehicles, robotics competitions, and educational robotics.
During the lectures, participants will be presented with distributed mission planning of multi-robot systems (MRS), an example of distributed mission planning for heterogeneous MRS based on hierarchical task representation, consensus-based environmental monitoring for underwater sensor networks, multi-robot systems for maritime security scenarios, as well as examples and the latest trends in multi-domain maritime robotics. Also, one lecture segment will refer to the legal issues of robotic operations at sea.
Lectures will be open to interested teaching and non-teaching staff, as well as all students. Since the number of participants is limited, we ask all interested to confirm their participation by filling out the application via the link https://forms.gle/moALbMad9TaT4xN37 by Monday, November 13, 2023.