Marine robotics workshop at ICAR 2011, 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED ROBOTICS TALLINN JUNE 20 - 23 / 2011

Marine robotics is a rapidly growing field within applied and fundamental research. The workshop aims at presenting recent results from academy and industry with a particular emphasis on research projects. The scope of the workshop is broad as it aims at bringing together scientist working on diverse issues ranging from bio-inspired robot design, to sensors, navigation, guidance and control of single and multiple vehicle systems, marine manipulation, and applications as surveillance or archeological studies. The Workshop is scheduled to be a full day event: each speaker will have a maximum of 30 minutes for her/his presentation. A time slot for questions and discussion will be allocated after each presentation in order to foster exchange of ideas and interaction among the participants. A final round-table discussion will also be organized in order to focus on the main issues that will have been raised during the workshop. The presentations and eventual additional material of behalf of the speakers will be collected and distributed to the participants