The Research Meeting and School on Distributed Computing by Mobile
Robots took place August 15-18, 2010 at Carleton University in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada.
Distributed robot computing is the study of complexity and
computability in systems where the computational entities themselves
are capable of movement within the spatial universe they inhabit. The
field has applications in areas as diverse as autonomous robots moving
in a terrain, software agents moving in a network, autonomous
intelligent vehicles, wireless mobile ad-hoc networks, and networks of
mobile sensors.
The goal of the research meeting is to bring together researchers
working in this areas in order to exchange problems, ideas, techniques,
and results. The objective is to create a clearer picture of the state
of the art in the field, to identify outstanding open problems and
research directions, and to foster collaborative investigation of
selected problems.
The event included participation by graduate students and post-doctoral
fellows, who attended it as a research school.
There were lectures of a survey/tutorial nature, invited talks on
specific current research topics and open problems. The discussion and
study of these open problems constituted an integral part of the
event.
In its dual nature of research meeting and research school we expect
that the event exposed graduate students and post-doctoral fellows
to important problems in this growing field.
Due to its particular nature, the number of participants was limited.
