IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 
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Lake Michigan -
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Millennium Park -
Art Institute of Chicago (Banquet) -
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Skyline Reflected by Cloud Gate (the Bean) -
Chicago Skyline at Twilight
Workshops & Tutorials
Industrial Tutorial, Sunday Sept 14, 3:30-5:00 PM, Wilson Room
The Industrial Tutorial is free to any IROS attendee, including those not registered for workshops and tutorials. It features in-depth presentations on the latest technology by three IROS sponsors. Chair: Martin Buehler, Covidien.
- 3:30 PM: Microsoft Research. Benchmark for Robotic Indoor Navigation. Speaker: Gershon Parent
- 4:00 PM: KUKA Robotics. Robotic Collaboration – Current State and Future Directions. Speaker: Corey Ryan
- 4:30 PM: Force Dimension. An Overview of CHAI3D, a C++ Framework for Haptic Simulations. Speaker: François Conti
Regular Workshops and Tutorials
Registration is required for the regular workshops and tutorials. Morning sessions are 8:30 AM until 12:00 PM, with a half-hour coffee break at 10:00 AM. Afternoon sessions are 1:30 PM until 5:00 PM, with a half-hour coffee break at 3:00 PM.
Sunday, September 14, Half-day Workshops and Tutorials
| Title | Organizers |
|---|---|
| An Open-source Recipe for Teaching (and Learning) Robotics with a Simulator: Setup a Laptop in 5 Minutes, Write a Control, Navigation, Vision or Manipulation Program in 100 Lines of Code (Grand Ballroom, Morning Session) | Renaud Detry*, Peter Corke, Marc Andreas Freese |
| Taxonomies of Interconnected Systems: Topology in Distributed Robotics (State Ballroom, Morning Session) | Ryan Williams*, Andrea Gasparri, Gaurav Sukhatme |
| How to Use MATLAB-ROS Interface to Prototype Robotics Algorithms for ROS-powered Robots (Grand Ballroom, Afternoon Session) | Yanliang Zhang |
| Aerial Open Source Robotics (State Ballroom, Afternoon Session) | Lorenz Meier*, Markus W. Achtelik, Brandon Basso |
Sunday, September 14, Full-day Workshops and Tutorials
| Title | Organizers |
|---|---|
| Modular and Swarm Systems — from Nature to Robotics (Salon 5) | Roderich Gross, Rico Moeckel*, Michael Rubenstein, Kasper Stoy |
| Micro-Nano Robotic Swarms for Biomedical Applications (Salon 6) | Spring Berman*, Sabine Hauert, Sangeeta Bhatia, Bradley Nelson, Vijay Kumar |
| Human-robot Collaboration in Standardization and R&D Activities (Salon 1) | Gurvinder Singh Virk*, Roger Bostelman, Seungbin B. Moon, Tamas Haidegger, Fabio Paolo Bonsignorio, Federico Vicentini, Paolo Barattini |
| Robot Manipulation: What Has Been Achieved and What Remains to Be Done? (Salon 10) | Erol Sahin*, Siddhartha Srinivasa |
| From Active Impedance to Intrinsically Compliant and Variable Impedance Actuators: Pros, Cons and Trade-offs (Salon 7) | Nikolaos Tsagarakis*, Bram Vanderborght, Luis Sentis |
| 6th Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles (Salon 12) | Philippe Martinet*, Christian Laugier, Christoph Stiller, Urbano Nunes |
| Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment (Salon 9) | Anne Spalanzani*, David Daney, Samer Mohammed, Yacine Amirat, Ren Luo, Rachid Alami, Christian Laugier |
| The 2014 IROS Workshop on AI and Robotics (Salon 2) | Lorenzo Riano*, Alessandro Saffiotti, Moritz Tenorth, George Dimitri Konidaris, Nick Hawes, Siddharth Srivastava |
| Assistive Robots for Individuals with Disabilities: HRI Issues and Beyond (Salon 8) | Hae Won Park*, Momotaz Begum, Chung Hyuk Park |
| Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion Workshop (Salon 3) | Maria Gini, Marco Morales, Angela P. Schoellig, Lydia Tapia*, Aleksandra Faust, Farbod Farshidian |
Thursday, September 18, Half-day Workshops and Tutorials
| Title | Organizers |
|---|---|
| 3rd Workshop on Visual Control of Mobile Robots (State Ballroom, Morning Session) | Gonzalo Lopez-Nicolas*, Youcef Mezouar |
| Standardized Knowledge Representations and Ontologies for Robotics and Automation (State Ballroom, Afternoon Session) | Paulo Gonçalves*, Craig Schlenoff, Edson Prestes, Tamas Haidegger |
Thursday, September 18, Full-day Workshops and Tutorials
| Title | Organizers |
|---|---|
| Whole-Body Control for Robots in the Real World (Salon 12) | Federico Lorenzo Moro*, Michael Gienger, Oussama Khatib, Eiichi Yoshida |
| Towards Horizon 2020: Trends and Challenges in Micro/Nanorobotics (Salon 1) | Michael Gauthier*, Fumihito Arai, Metin Sitti, Bradley J. Nelson |
| Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics: Bridging the Gap Between Clinicians and Roboticists (Grand Ballroom) | Brenna Argall*, Siddhartha Srinivasa |
| 3rd Workshop on Robots in Clutter: Perception and Interaction in Clutter (Salon 3) | Michael Zillich*, Dejan Pangercic, Maren Bennewitz, Justus Piater, Maria Fox |
| Compliant Manipulation: Challenges in Learning and Control (Salon 7) | Klas Kronander*, Aude Billard, etienne burdet, Jonas Buchli |
| Workshop on Active Touch Sensing in Robots and Animals (Salon 8) | Yon Visell*, Vincent Hayward, Mitra Hartmann, Nathan Lepora |
| Telerobotics for Real-Life Applications: Opportunities, Challenges, and New Developments (Salon 6) | Dongjun Lee*, Jordi Artigas, Shahin Sirouspour, Seiichiro Katsura |
| The Role of Human Sensorimotor Control in Surgical Robotics (Salon 5) | Ilana Nisky*, Tony Jarc |
| Real-time Motion Generation and Control — Constraint-based Robot Programming (Salon 2) | Andrea Maria Zanchettin*, Gianni Borghesan, Torsten Kroeger |
| The Future of Multiple Robot Research and its Multiple Identities (Salon 10) | Lorenzo Sabattini*, Antonio Franchi, Dylan Shell, Nora Ayanian |
| Community Consensus Benchmarks and Systems for Clinical Translation of Medical Robots (Salon 4) | Nabil Simaan*, Venkat Krovi, Peter Kazanzides, Simon P. DiMaio |
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