| 07:30-17:00 | Registration | |
| 07:30-08:30 | Breakfast | Veranda |
| 08:30-09:00 | Opening Ceremony | Crystal Ballroom |
| 09:00-09:50 | Keynote Speech I Semantic Mapping for Mobile Robots Henrik I. Christensen, University of California, San Diego, USA | Crystal Ballroom |
| 09:50-10:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:10-11:50 | Plenary Panel Session AI and VR Moderators: Craig Dietrich, Occidental College, USA Koji Morishita, NEC Solution Innovators Ltd., Japan Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz, RUST Ltd. and USC, USA Panelists John Crawford, University of California, Irvine, USA Gary Glesener, Virginia Tech, USA David Krum, University of Southern California, USA | Crystal Ballroom |
| 11:50-13:00 | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 13:00-13:50 | Keynote Speech II Automation vs. Augmentation: Socially Assistive Robotics and the Future of Work Maja Mataric, University of Southern California, USA | Crystal Ballroom |
| 13:50-14:00 | Intermission | |
| 14:00-14:50 | Keynote Speech III High Fidelity Simulations: The Critical Path to Real-World Robotics Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, USA | Crystal Ballroom |
| 14:50-15:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:10-16:50 | Parallel Sessions (1) | |
| IRC(1) Software Architectures (I) Session Chair: Piergiuseppe Mallozzi Improving Code Quality in ROS Packages using a Temporal Extension of First-order Logic David Come, Julien Brunel and David Doose A Computational Framework for Complementary Situational Awareness (CSA) in Surgical Assistant Robots Preetham Chalasani, Anton Deguet, Peter Kazanzides and Russell Taylor Gilbreth: A Conveyor-belt Based Pick-and-sort Industrial Robotics Application Yizhe Zhang, Lianjun Li, Michael Ripperger, Jorge Nicho, Malathi Veeraraghavan and Andrea Fumagalli Model-Based Performance Testing for Robotics Software Components Johannes Wienke, Dennis Wigand, Norman Köster and Sebastian Wrede A Build System for Software Development in Robotic Academic Collaborative Environments Daniele E. Domenichelli, Silvio Traversaro, Luca Muratore, Alessio Rocchi, Francesco Nori and Lorenzo Natale | Platinum Room | |
| IRC(2) Path Planning and Robot Navigation (I) Session Chair: Titas Bera Interval-arithmetic-based Trajectory Scaling and Collision Detection for Robots with Uncertain Dynamics Michael Wagner, Stefan Liu, Andrea Giusti and Matthias Althoff Autonomous Quadrotor 3D Mapping and Exploration Using Exact Occupancy Probabilities Evan Kaufman, Kuya Takami, Zhuming Ai and Taeyoung Lee Efficient Decentralized Collaborative Mapping for Outdoor Environments Luis Contreras, Olivier Kermorgant and Philippe Martinet Laser-based Control Law for Autonomous Parallel and Perpendicular Parking David Pérez Morales, Olivier Kermorgant, Salvador Domínguez Quijada and Philippe Martinet Multimodal Central Place Foraging Nicholas Dolan-Stern, Kevin Scrivnor and Jason Isaacs | Garnet Galley | |
| IRC(3) Task Planning and Multi-robot Systems Session Chair: Chase Frazelle Sound Identification for Fire-fighting Mobile Robots Elizabeth Baum, Mario Harper, Ryan Alicea and Camilo Ordonez Multi-robot Scheduling and Path-planning for Non-overlapping Operator Attention Sebastian Zanlongo, Franklin Abodo, Philip Long, Taskin Padir and Leonardo Bobadilla Integrating Reactive Behavior and Planning: Optimizing Execution Time through Predictive Preparation of State Machine Tasks Andreas Schierl, Alwin Hoffmann, Ludwig Nägele and Wolfgang Reif Utilizing Fog Computing for Multi-Robot Systems Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi and Imad Jawhar | Slate Room | |
| 16:50-17:00 | Intermission | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Parallel Sessions (2) | |
| IRC(4) Software Architectures (II) Session Chair: David Come Flexible Image Acquisition Service for Distributed Robotic Systems Oleksandr Semeniuta and Petter Falkman A Model Driven Approach for Eased Knowledge Storage and Retrieval in Interactive HRI Systems Norman Köster, Sebastian Wrede and Philipp Cimiano A Reference Architecture for Deploying Component-based Robot Software and Comparison with Existing Tools Nico Hochgeschwender, Geoffrey Biggs and Holger Voos | Platinum Room | |
| IRC(5) Path Planning and Robot Navigation (II) Session Chair: Evan Kaufman Model-based Development of QoS-aware Reconfigurable Autonomous Robotic Systems Davide Brugali, Rafael Capilla, Raffaela Mirandola and Catia Trubiani Reuleaux: Robot Base Placement by Reachability Analysis Abhijit Makhal and Alex K. Goins Computer Vision Based Robust Steering Angle Calculation for Autonomous Vehicles Ranjith Rochan, Aarthi Alagammai and Sujatha Jagannath | Garnet Galley | |
| IRC(6) Formal Methods for Analysis and Design Session Chair: Andreas Schierl A Data-driven Deployment Approach for Persistent Monitoring in Aquatic Environments Tauhidul Alam, Gregory Murad Reis, Leonardo Bobadilla and Ryan N. Smith Rapid Qualification of Mereotopological Relationships using Signed Distance Fields René Schubotz, Christian Vogelgesang and Dmitri Rubinstein Development of a Generic and Configurable Fuzzy Logic Systems Library for Real-time Control Applications using an Object-oriented Approach Abel Hailemichael, Solomon Gebreyohannes, Ali Karimoddini, Kaushik Roy and Abdollah Homaifar | Slate Room | |
| 18:00-19:00 | Poster Session Session Chair: Atefeh Mahdavi Dynamic Area Coverage for Multi-UAV using Distributed UGVs: A Two-Stage Density Estimation Approach Senthilnath J., Harikumar K. and Suresh S. Optimal Trajectory and Schedule Planning for Autonomous Guided Vehicles in Flexible Manufacturing System Atefeh Mahdavi and Marco Carvalho Reliable navigation planning implementation on a two-wheeled mobile robot Pierre-André Crépon, Adina Marlena Panchea and Alexandre Chapoutot Towards A Robot Hardware Abstraction Layer (R-HAL) Leveraging the XBot Software Framework Giuseppe Francesco Rigano, Luca Muratore, Arturo Laurenzi, Enrico Mingo Hoffman and Nikos Tsagarakis Lurch: the Social Robot that can Wait David Claveau and Stormon Force Collective Behavior Acquisition of Real Robotic Swarms using Deep Reinforcement Learning Toshiyuki Yasuda and Kazuhiro Ohkura Estimating the Operation of Unknown Appliances for Service Robots using CNN and Ontology Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Yosuke Osaki, Ming Ding, Jun Takamatsu and Tsukasa Ogasawara | Mezzanine |
| 19:30-21:30 | Reception | Crystal Ballroom |