This session reports developments carried out within the EU project SMErobot (http://www.smerobot.org)

Scope:
The presence of many high-processing power devices makes the concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA) particularly suitable for use in the industrial manufacturing cells. A SOA relies on highly autonomous but interoperable systems. The definition of a service is ruled by the larger context; this means that all technological details are hidden, but also that the concept that supports the service is more process related and less technologically related. The objective of this session is to report recent developments based on SOA with the goal of:

1. Achieve high-level programming features;
2. Being able to plug and produce without operator intervention;
3. Obtain fast configuration of robotic workcells, including all the related components

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Robot technologies
- Robotic tele-operation
- Robotic insects and reactive control
- Advanced vehicles
- Swarm agency
- Cooperative control
- Sensory robotic agents
- Robot soccer
- Autonomous agents
- Security and Privacy in Multi-Agent Systems
- Robotic surveillance and security
- Agent planning
- Agent communication languages
- Hybrid multi-agent systems
- Collective behavior
- Agent-based simulation
- Robot and multi-robot learning
- Distributed multi-agent robotic systems
- Integrity and Controllability of Distributed Multi-agent Systems
- Multi-agent self-organization
- Toolboxes for multi-agent robotics
- Software for robotic agents
- Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks

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