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We strongly believe that ICRA 2018 is an ideal venue to present recent successes and next steps in human-robot interaction with flying robots. This workshop is aimed not only at bringing together researchers from human-robot interaction, UAVs and interactive machine learning fields, but also at creating valuable collaborations, and attracting more roboticists into this growing community.

Invited Speakers

Name	Affiliation	Topic of contribution	Status
Alberto Sanfeliu	IRI-UPC	Social Robot Navigation	Confirmed
Anaís Garrell	IRI-UPC	Aerial Social Force Model	Confirmed
Javier Alonso-Mora	TUDelft	Cognitive Robotics	Confirmed
Richard Vaughan	Simon Fraser University	HRI and Aerial robots	Confirmed
Joshua M. Peschel	Iowa State University	Human robot assistance Human-robot interaction	Confirmed
Jessica R. Cauchard	IDC Herzliya	Human drone interaction Human-robot assistance	Confirmed
Sarvapali Ramchurn	University of Southampton	Interactive Machine Learning	Confirmed
Brittany Duncan	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Human Robot Interaction aerial robots	Confirmed
Martin Hitz	Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt	Human Robot Interaction	Confirmed
Davide Scaramuzza	University of Zurich and ETH Zurich	Aerial robots	Confirmed

Intended audience

We strongly believe that ICRA 2018 is an ideal venue to present recent successes and next steps in human-robot interaction with flying robots. This workshop is aimed not only at bringing together researchers from human-robot interaction, UAVs and interactive machine learning fields, but also at creating valuable collaborations, and attracting more roboticists into this growing community.

Relationship to the conference proper

Research on aerial robots has grown substantially, due to modern advances in technology, materials, and systems of perception and control. Nevertheless, this topic is still new in comparison to other research areas in robotics. This workshop paves the way for a near future wherein aerial and ground robots interact with people in houses, streets, or retail environments in order to perform specific tasks. We strongly believe, this workshop is needed to give the researches the opportunity to present their current work on this topics.

Structure of the event

• Introduction by the organizers

The organizers will briefly introduce the current state-of-art in the field of human robot interaction and drones. They will then propose future challenges to be tackled to foster further discussions along the workshop.

• Talks given by experts in the fields related to the workshop topics

Experts in different fields will share their works and experience in UAV and HRI, and the relation between these two important topics (please see the list of speakers above, depends on confirmation). They will also be encouraged to give their opinions and thoughts about the current and future problems in the field, providing different perspectives according to their areas of research.

• Panel discussion
• Closing remarks

The organizers will present a review of the most relevant presented ideas, and new frontiers to be carried out in the next future.

Time	Topic	Speaker
9:00	Welcome and Introduction	Leonel Rozo
9:05	Challenges in Human-Aerial Robot Interactioin and Collaboration	Alberto Sanfeliu
9:20	Aerial Social Force Model to accompany people	Anaís Garrell
9:35	Human-Drone Interaction in the Era of Skydio and DJI, what is left for research?	Davide Scaramuzza
9:55	Investigating Distancing and Communicative Flight Paths with small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles	Brittany Duncan
10:15	Practical Human-UAV Interaction From 40m to 2m Scales	Richard Vaughan
10:35	Coffee break
11:00	Human-Robot Interaction in Cyber-Physical-Human Systems	Joshua M. Peschel
11:20	Aerial cinematography: towards the cameraman of the future	Javier Alonso-Mora
11:40	Engineering optimal gesture sets for UAVs	Martin Hitz
12:00	To Be Defined	Jessica R. Cauchard (skype) /Sarvapali (video)
12:15	Panel discussion	Moderators: R. Alami, A. Sanfeliu, A. Garrell, L.Rozo Participants: Invited speakers