Deadline: December 20, 2024
The system of systems community and the robotics community evolve in parallel, although they share a
large number of common concepts and related issues. The strong emergence of autonomous robotics
swarms, in particular heterogeneous multi domains autonomous robotics swarms (aerial, terrestrial,
maritime) is both an opportunity for roboticists to appropriate the concepts of systems of systems
engineering, and an opportunity to challenge the commonly established results of systems of systems
engineering in the field, by experimenting on highly reconfigurable autonomous swarms.
This special session will address the topic of system of systems engineering in robotics with an emphasis
on foundations for sustainable and adaptive autonomous systems. These foundations should enrich the
currently existing system of systems taxonomy and governance standards (ISO/IEC/IEEE 21841:2019,
21839:2019,21840:2019) to take into account large scale AI-driven robotics autonomous systems trends
and propose both theoretical and methodological frameworks to allow optimized robotics systems design
under resources constraints among them energy.
This session is open to researchers and industry practitioners who have demonstrated the value of systems
engineering and systems architecture methods, concepts and standards for the design of autonomous robotic
systems or systems of systems, or conversely to those who have identified their limits, ambiguities, gaps
by relying on practical or theoretical case studies from robotics.