The Workshop of Physical Agents intends to be a forum for information and experience exchange in different areas regarding the concept of agent in physical environments, especially applied to the control and coordination of autonomous systems: robots, mobile robots, industrial…

This paper introduces the development of an infrastructure to study highly complex systems of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) which involve a large number of users. The key ideas about the development of a multi-agent based simulation (MABS) for such purposes, Ubik,…

There is considerable interest in real-world formation-maintenance tasks, where robots move together while maintaining a geometric shape. This interest is motivated by promise of robustly and efficiently moving multiple robots along a path, guided by a human operator. This paper…