Proceedings of the Austrian Robotics Workshop 2012

The Austrian Robotics Workshop seeks to bring together researchers, students, professionals and practitioners working on various topics in robotics to discuss recent developments and challenges in robotic and its applications. Since it's early days of the Austrian RoboCup workshop back in 2006 the workshop has been a regional platform for getting In touch with new people and to exchange ideas and expertise. We opened the workshop in 2012 in two new directions after the Austrian Robotics Workshop became mature and a full-fledged workshop in 2011. First we particularly invited participation from neighboring countries in the area such as Slovenia to foster cooperation and exchange in the region. Second we envisioned strengthening the cooperation between academia and industry in the context of robotics research by addressing in particular companies from industry and by conducting special events like an exhibition and a panel discussion about the relation of academia and industry. The program was rounded up by invited talks and a tutorial on multi-robot coordination.