This book presents the proceedings of the 8th EAI International Conference on Robotics and Networks 2024 (EAI ROSENET 2024). The conference explores the integration of networks, communications, and robotic technologies, which has become a topic of increasing interest for both researchers and developers from academic fields and industries worldwide. The authors posit that big networks will be the main approach to the next generation of robotic research, with the explosive number of communications and networks models and increasing computational power of computers significantly extending the number of potential applications for robotic technologies while also bringing new challenges to the communications and networking community. The conference provided a platform for researchers to share up-to-date scientific achievements in this field.
Behçet Uğur Töreyin received the B.S. degree from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Bilkent University, Ankara, in 2003 and 2009, respectively, all in electrical and electronics engineering.He is currently a Full professor with the Informatics Institute, Istanbul Technical University. His research focuses on signal processing and pattern recognition, particularly in applications related to image analysis and computational intelligence. He is also dedicated to developing algorithms for analyzing and compressing signals from a variety of sensors, including visible, infrared, and hyperspectral cameras, microphones, passive infrared sensors, vibration sensors, and spectrum sensors used in wireless communications. Hatice Köse (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the Computer Engineering Department, Bogaziçi University, Turkey. She has been a Full Professor with the Department of AI and Data Engineering, Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, coordinating the Game Laboratory and Cognitive Social Robotics Laboratory, since 2010. From 2006 to 2010, she was a Research Fellow with the University of Hertfordshire. Her current research interests include gesture communication (involving sign language) and imitation-based interaction games with social humanoid robots for the education and rehabilitation of children with hearing impairment and children with ASD. She is leading several national projects and taking part in several Horizon2020 projects, Erasmus+ and Cost actions, on social assistive robots, sign language tutoring robots, and human-robot interaction. Prof. Nizamettin Aydin (Senior Member, IEEE) received B.Sc. (1984) and M.Sc. (1987) degrees in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Yildiz Technical University, Turkiye, and Ph.D. degree in Medical Physics (1994) at the University of Leicester, UK. He worked in the Department of Clinical Neuroscionces at Kings College London and the Division of Clinical Neuroscience at St George's Hospital Medical School as a Research Fellow between 1998 and 2001. He was a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems at the University of Edinburgh from 2001 to 2004. In 2004, he was appointed as head of Computer Engineering Department and in 2006 he founded Software Engineering Department, both at Bahcesehir University, Turkiye. Between 2009 and 2023, he was professor in Computer Engineering Department at Yildiz Technical University and served as the head of the department between 2011 and 2023. He is now with the Computer Engineering Department at Istanbul Technical University. His research interests and contributions cover a wide range of subkects including biomedical signal/image processing, bioinformatics, system-on-chip, AI, data science, and computer science. He was awarded the IEE the Institute Premium Award for 2000/2001 for his contributions in coplex wavelet transform for processing Doppler ultrasound signals. He is a senior member of IEEE and serves as the IEEE Turkiye Section Chair. Seifedine Nimer Kadry (Senior Member, IEEE) has a Bachelor degree in 1999 from Lebanese University, MS degree in 2002 from Reims University (France) and EPFL (Lausanne), PhD in 2007 from Blaise Pascal University (France), HDR degree in 2017 from Rouen University. At present his research focuses on Data Science, education using technology, system prognostics, stochastic systems, and applied mathematics. He is currently working as a Full Professor of data science at Lebanese American University in Lebanon and Noroff University College in Norway. He is an ABET program evaluator for computing, and ABET program evaluator for Engineering Tech. He is a Fellow of IET, Fellow of IETE, and Fellow of IACSIT. He is a Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society. He has served in the Editorial Board of numerous journals in several publishers including IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, etc while he has been editor of several books. He has taken various roles in the organization committee in numerous conferences. He has 1000+ publications which has more than 22,000 citations with h-index of 69.
Ömer Melih Gül (Senior Member, IEEE) received BSc., MSc., and PhD. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2012, 2014, and 2020, respectively by also working as a research assistant at the same department. His research interests include AI/machine learning applications, wireless security, networking, scheduling, IoT, UAV, robotics, and blockchain. He has co-authored over 50 papers and 5 book chapters. He was awarded third place in the 2019 Lance Stafford Larson Outstanding Student Paper Award by the IEEE Computer Society. He was also awarded third place in the poster competition at 2021 IEEE Rising Stars Global Conference. In 2022, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Ottawa, Canada. He received best paper award at 48th Wireless World Research Forum in 2022. In 2023, he worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he supervised 5 MSc theses. Since March 2024, he has been working as an associate professor in the Informatics Institute at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey, where he is currently supervising 1 PhD and 4 MSc students.
Behçet Uğur Töreyin 於 2001 年獲得土耳其安卡拉中東科技大學的學士學位，並於 2003 年和 2009 年分別獲得土耳其比爾肯特大學的碩士和博士學位，專攻電氣與電子工程。他目前是伊斯坦堡科技大學資訊學院的正教授。他的研究專注於信號處理和模式識別，特別是在與影像分析和計算智慧相關的應用方面。他還致力於開發用於分析和壓縮來自各種傳感器的信號的演算法，包括可見光、紅外線和高光譜相機、麥克風、被動紅外線傳感器、振動傳感器以及用於無線通信的頻譜傳感器。
Hatice Köse（IEEE 高級會員）於土耳其博加齊大學計算機工程系獲得博士學位。自 2010 年以來，她一直擔任土耳其伊斯坦堡科技大學計算機與資訊工程學院人工智慧與數據工程系的正教授，並協調遊戲實驗室和認知社會機器人實驗室。從 2006 年到 2010 年，她是赫特福德大學的研究員。她目前的研究興趣包括手勢通信（涉及手語）和基於模仿的互動遊戲，旨在幫助聽障兒童和自閉症兒童的教育與康復。她負責多個國家項目，並參與多個Horizon2020項目、Erasmus+和Cost行動，專注於社會輔助機器人、手語輔導機器人和人機互動。
Nizamettin Aydin 教授（IEEE 高級會員）於 1984 年和 1987 年在土耳其伊爾迪茲科技大學獲得電子與電信工程的學士和碩士學位，並於 1994 年在英國萊斯特大學獲得醫學物理的博士學位。他曾於 1998 年至 2001 年在倫敦國王學院臨床神經科學系和聖喬治醫院醫學院臨床神經科學部擔任研究員。2001 年至 2004 年，他在愛丁堡大學的綜合微納米系統研究所擔任高級研究員。2004 年，他被任命為土耳其巴哈切希爾大學計算機工程系主任，並於 2006 年創立了軟體工程系。在 2009 年至 2023 年期間，他是伊爾迪茲科技大學計算機工程系的教授，並於 2011 年至 2023 年擔任系主任。他目前在伊斯坦堡科技大學的計算機工程系工作。他的研究興趣和貢獻涵蓋生物醫學信號/影像處理、生物資訊學、系統單晶片、人工智慧、數據科學和計算機科學等多個主題。他因在多普勒超聲信號處理中的複雜小波變換貢獻而獲得 2000/2001 年度 IEE 研究所優秀獎。他是 IEEE 的高級會員，並擔任 IEEE 土耳其分會主席。
Seifedine Nimer Kadry（IEEE 高級會員）於 1999 年在黎巴嫩大學獲得學士學位，2002 年在法國的蘭斯大學和洛桑聯邦理工學院獲得碩士學位，2007 年在法國布萊茲·帕斯卡大學獲得博士學位，2017 年在魯昂大學獲得 HDR 學位。目前他的研究專注於數據科學、技術教育、系統預測、隨機系統和應用數學。他目前在黎巴嫩美國大學和挪威諾羅夫大學擔任數據科學的正教授。他是計算機的 ABET 課程評估員，以及工程技術的 ABET 課程評估員。他是 IET、IETE 和 IACSIT 的院士，也是 IEEE 計算機學會的傑出訪客。他曾在多個期刊的編輯委員會中任職，包括 IEEE、Elsevier、Springer 等，並編輯過多本書籍。他在多個會議的組織委員會中擔任各種角色。他擁有超過 1000 篇的出版物，引用次數超過 22,000 次，H 指數為 69。
Ömer Melih Gül（IEEE 高級會員）於 2012 年、2014 年和 2020 年在土耳其安卡拉中東科技大學電氣與電子工程系獲得學士、碩士和博士學位，同時在該系擔任研究助理。他的研究興趣包括人工智慧/機器學習應用、無線安全、網絡、排程、物聯網、無人機、機器人技術和區塊鏈。他共同撰寫了超過 50 篇論文和 5 章書籍。他在 2019 年獲得 IEEE 計算機學會的 Lance Stafford Larson 傑出學生論文獎第三名，並在 2021 年的 IEEE Rising Stars 全球會議中獲得海報比賽第三名。2022 年，他在加拿大渥太華大學電氣工程與計算機科學學院擔任博士後研究員。他在 2022 年的第 48 屆無線世界研究論壇中獲得最佳論文獎。2023 年，他在土耳其伊斯坦堡的巴哈切希爾大學計算機工程系擔任助理教授，指導 5 篇碩士論文。自 2024 年 3 月以來，他在土耳其伊斯坦堡科技大學資訊學院擔任副教授，目前指導 1 名博士生和 4 名碩士生。
