Recently, cooperative robotics has found applications in various fields, due to its features of robustness, flexibility, and scalability. Such features allow for the use of robots for planetary exploration and disaster-resistant systems. Dr. Hattori's work is mainly on homogeneous and dynamic-role robots systems with wireless communications. The talk will focus on how to dynamically assign roles and how to evaluate a swarm robot model through a wireless network simulator. Finally, Dr. Hattori will introduce the robot competition project called ARRLIS (A Rocket Launch for International Student
Satellites) to launch a robot at 4000m altitude with a sounding rocket. The robot will set up a network with some small base stations under completely autonomous control.

Bio:
Dr. Kiyohiko Hattori received his M.E. degree from University of Electro-Communications, Japan, in 2000 and a Doctor of Engineering Degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2006, respectively. He is currently a senior researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan. His research interests include swarm robotics, multiagent systems, distributed systems, wireless communication, artificial intelligence, and autonomy.