Cooperative autonomous intelligent vehicles are advanced robotic systems of systems: current trends and challenges

The workshop aims at bridging the gap between research in robotics and intelligent transportation systems, and we cordially invited contributions with topics that are relevant to both communities. *Aim and scope* In the field of robotics, there is a diverse group of researchers with a focus on multi-robot systems (MRS). Their research covers, among others, multi-robot path planning and autonomous navigation, coordination and collaborative decision making, task allocation or dynamic network optimisation. Since the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) community shares similar research interests and application domains, this workshop tries to bridge the gap between the both communities by looking at complementary as well as similar research topics in both fields. We strongly believe there is a fair overlap in these two communities and we encourage collaborations and cross-fertilisation by submitting a paper to this workshop on your work in one of these fields. We welcome and encourage contributions reporting on original research, work under development and experiments in both the field of multi-robot systems and intelligent transportation systems, especially on work which can benefit both communities. *Acknowledgements* This workshop is supported by the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems