Activities

ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR 2024 AND BEYOND

1. An invited session in ITSC’24 – “Emerging Data-driven Technologies and Machine Intellection for Smart Traffic Applications”, which acknowledges TC as one co-sponsor in the proposal (submitted).

2. A special track (of 2-3 invited sessions) in ICARCV’24 (https://icarcv2024.org) on “Situation Awareness and Resilient Control of Cyber-Physical Systems”, which will acknowledge TC as one tech co-sponsor in the proposal (to be submitted soon).   

3. Participation at iCaMaL2024, HongKong in Aug.7-9, 2024 (now it is on the stage of CFP. https://icamal2024.com)

4. ICRA 2024 collaboration to organize the Workshop “Human-aligned reinforcement learning for autonomous agents and robots” accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation

5. CASE 2024 Organization of the Workshop on Machine Learning for Automation

6. Organization with the Automation Cluster of a Summer school on 2025 in Bari (Italy ) at the end of July.

7. Organize special issues at T-ASE 

8. Each year will organize special sessions in IEEE conferences, RAS conferences and also in no IEEE conferences

9. Each year the TC co-chairs and the DL of the TC will give talks and invited speeches at IEEE conferences, RAS conferences and also in no IEEE conferences

 

Organize panels focusing on the most interesting areas of the TC and the most innovative approaches applied in the TC

 

PAST ACTIVITIES

Forum at ICRA 2023 (London, May 30 2023) How can automation contribute to a worth-living and sustainable society in the future?

Web page Link http://www.robot.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/CLUSTER_FORUM_ICRA2023/

 Special Session "Toward smart and Electric Mobility"  (Rome, CODIT 2023)

Sponsored and organized Workshop Rajkumar Muthusamy, Tarek Taha, Paolo Dario, Maria Pia Fanti: "The Last-Mile Robotics Workshop: Envisioning Effective, Sustainable and Human-Centric Delivery" Conference: 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)..

   

SPONSORED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

Plenary Panel "Synergies between Automation and Robotics" 1 June 2021, 2021 IEEE RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021)

Networking Event: Tea with TC's Virtual Networking Event,  8 June 2021, 2021 IEEE RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021).

Endorsement of the workshop "Dinosaurs vs. Unicorns in the time of Covid-19 pandemic. How Robots may save business dinosaurs from extinction by turning them start-ups again" submitted to the 2021 IEEE RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021).

International Symposium on Automation in Manufacturing and Logistics, 29 April, 2021, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. International Steering Committee (Organizing) Mengchu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, Maria Pia Fanti, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy. Execution committee, Weidong Li, Dean, the School of Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Publication Chair: Jie Mei, the School of Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology

2017 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI 2017) September 18-20, 2017, Bari, Italy.

Workshop on IoT applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Logistics in conjunction with the SOLI 2017.

 

KEY NOTES

  • New Approaches for Managing Logistics Systems: Integrating Information, Communication Technologies and Remote Sensing, Munich, Germany, CASE 2018

  • Pan European Logistics: First Results in Trieste Living Lab, ITS European Conference 2018

  • Green mobility and ITS for urban transport, Athens, 5th ITS Hellas Conference 2019

  • New Approaches for Managing Logistic and Manufacturing Systems: Integrating Information, Communication Technologies and Remote Sensing, China, RCAE Conference 2019

  • Electro-mobility integrated into transport and mobility networks, Trening Session, Trieste 2019

  • New Approaches for Managing Logistic and Manufacturing Systems, key note organized by the GCET StudentBranch Chapter, 2020

  • Enabling Technologies of Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing and Logistics Systems 2020 3th International Conference on Robotics, Control and Automation Engineering (RCAE 2020)

  • New Solutions for Manufacturing and Logistics Systems, 4th International Conference on Robotics, Control and Automation Engineering (RCAE 2021) 

  •  Automation and Industry 4.0 strategies for Logistic and Transportation Systems,  2021 IEEE RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021).

  • Consensus Protocols for Connecting Autonomous Vehicles, 26th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR 2022)

  • Concensus Protocols for Autonomous Vehicles Control, 2022 (IRCE 2022)

  • Concensus Protocols for Connecting Autonomous Vehicles, 2022 IEEE DA SC/PiCOM/CBDCom/CyberSciTech22, Calabria, September 2022

SPECIAL ISSUES

2020 – 2021: Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Topical Collection on Cybersecurity (Guest Editor: Rong Su, Joao Basilio)

2018 – 2019: Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Topical Collection on Smart Manufacturing (Guest Editor: Rong Su, Bengt Lennartson)

2016 : IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering: Special Section on Emerging Advances in Logistics Systems: Integrating Remote Sensing, IT, and Autonomy (Guest editors P. Fanti, W. Ukovich, R. Uzsoy)

 

PAST SPECIAL SESSIONS

  • IEEE CASE 2017 Special Session on Emerging Advances in Logistics Systems

  • IEEE ICNSC 2017 Special session on Smart Cities

  • IFAC WODES 2018 Special session on Observability, Opacity and Liveness in Discrete Event Systems

  • IEEE CODIT 2018 Special session on Logistics and Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • IEEE CODIT 2019 Special session on Smart and Green Logistics and Transportation Systems

  • IEEE CASE 2018 Special session “Automation in Logistics and  Intelligent Transportation Systems”

  • IEEE CASE 2019 Special session on Smart Mobility and Logistics

  • IEEE SMC 2019 Special session on Smart cities: buildings, logistics and transportation systems 

  • IEEE CODIT 2020 Special session on The Smart Cities context: Industry 4.0, Logistics and Transportation System

  • IFAC WODES 2020 Special session on Resilience of DES (I): Cyber Security and Opacity Related Analysis and Control, Rong Su, Liyong Lin, Raymond Kwong

  • IFAC WODES 2020 Special session on Discrete-Event Modeling and Tools for Decision Support in Smart Manufacturing Systems, Dawn Tilbury, Bengt Lennartson, Rong Su

  • IFAC WODES 2020 Special session on Discrete-Event Control Synthesis and Verification for Smart Manufacturing Systems, Dawn Tilbury, Bengt Lennartson, Rong Su

  • IFAC WODES 2020 Special session on Resilience of DES: About the Impact of Time in Analysis and Control of Discrete Event Systems, Rong Su, Liyong Lin, Michel Renieri

  • IFAC WC 2020 Workshop on Analysis and Control for Resilience of Discrete Event Systems, Rong Su.

  • IEEE SMC 2018-2021 Special session on Cooperated WSN & IoT, Giancarlo Fortino, Wenfeng Li, Weiming Shen

  • MED 2021 Invited Session on: Control and Optimization of Transportation and Energy Systems, Conference, Michela Robba

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