Professor Ronald C. Arkin
Mobile Robot Laboratory,
Georgia Institute of Technology
 

Recent research in Georgia Tech's Mobile Robot Laboratory has studied two widely disparate phenomena: ethical robotics and deceptive behavior in autonomous systems. This talk overviews our progress in both of these areas. First, we present an ethical architecture initially designed for use in military robotic systems that  draw upon the Laws of War and Rules of Engagement. We then consider how autonomous robots can determine not only when to deceive but how to deceive, using a cognitive model derived from interdependence theory. Finally we assess how either of  these methods, if successful in practice, can potentially have significant ramifications in how we view robotic systems from a security perspective. This research has been supported under grants from the Army Research Office and the Office of Naval Research.
 
Ronald Arkin is Regents' Professor and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He serves as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Computing. During 1997-98, Professor Arkin was STINT visiting Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 2005-06, Prof. Arkin held a Sabbatical Chair at the Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratory in Tokyo and then was a member of the Robotics Group at LAAS in Toulouse. Dr. Arkin's research interests include behavior-based reactive control, action-oriented perception, hybrid deliberative/reactive robotic architectures, robot survivability, multiagent systems, biorobotics, human-robot interaction, robot ethics, and learning in autonomous systems. He has over 170 technical publications in these areas.  Prof. Arkin has written a textbook entitled Behavior-Based Robotics, co-edited Robot Colonies, and a recent book  entitled Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots. Funding sources include the NSF, DARPA, U.S. Army,  Savannah River, Honda, Samsung, Draper, SAIC, NAVAIR, and ONR. Dr. Arkin is an Associate Editor for numerous journals and is Series Editor for the MIT Press book series Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents. Prof. Arkin serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, served on the  Administrative Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, is a founding co-chair of the IEEE RAS  Technical Committee on Robot Ethics, is co-chair of the Society's Human Rights and Ethics Committee, and served  on the NSF's Robotics Council. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of AAAI and ACM.



Keynote 2: Secured Robot Identity and Mechatronic Security

Professor Wael Adi
Technical University of Braunschweig
Germany

Secured robot identity is becoming a serious issue in many emerging modern robot applications. Robot security matters are still not intensively addressed in the public literature. A bio-inspired identity profile model for mechatronic entities similar to that of human biological and social identification profile is presented. Mapping the biological mutation concept and DNA chains properties on to a mechatronic system model is demonstrated. Several basic scenarios to achieve clone-resistant mechatronic systems are shown. As practiced in real human societies, behavior and operational profile attributes are successfully integrated as additional identification attributes in human societies. A similar multi-attribute model is shown to be helpful to achieve highly secure and resilient identification technology for mechatronic systems. Simplified identification mechanism linking electronic, mechanical and interaction attributes of a mechatronic system with its operational environment is shown to be a promising personalization and identification approach for robots and mechatronic systems.

Wael Adi is Professor at the “Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering” (IDA) at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. His research activities include physical and mechatronic security, clone-resistant architectures, IPR protection for VLSI design cores, Robot security, Vehicular Security, e-Money, e-Voting and Error Correction technology. Since 1988, he was teaching Cryptography and Systems Security, Digital Design, Wireless Communication, Digital Networks, Channel Coding Techniques. He had an industrial leave for 10 years to the “Institute for Applied Microelectronics” IAM as director of applied research. He served more than 25 years in German industrial research and consultancy for electronic, vehicular and machine industry as SIEMENS, BOSCH,  VOLKSWAGEN and many others. He also served in the 3rd Generation ETSI-European mobile system standardization on security and channel coding. He published more than 70 conference/journal papers. He is an inventor in more than 18 European/US patents. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Keynote 3: Mini-hopping robots for search and rescue and security

Professor Paolo Fiorini

Dept of Informatics,
University of Verona,
Italy
 

After spending 15 years at NASA-JPL in the USA, Professor Fiorini returned to teach and perform research in native Italy. Paolo has almost 30 years of experience in robotics. He has brought important contributions in robotic manipulation, human-robot interfaces, teleoperation,motion planning in dynamic environments, planetary exploration, coordination of mobile robots, service robotics, etc. Prof Fiorini is leading research projects in various areas including medical robotics AccuRobAs, Virtual Abdomen, Haptics, cognitive robotics (Xpero), robot standards (RoSta, Penelope, etc. He has organized and chaired or co-chaired numerous conference and workshops, including the robotic summer school Paolo is also President of the Italian chapter of the Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). Among his more recent activities he was Program Chair of ICAR2009, International Conference on Advanced Robots, Munich, Germany and Program Co-Chair (for Aged-Care) at the The International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Incheon, Korea, 16th~ 18th August 2009.