Tutorials and Workshops

May 31, 2014 (Sat), Full Day Workshops/Tutorials (9:00-17:30)

Session ID Title Organizers
WSa1

Active Visual Learning and Hierarchical Visual Representations for General-Purpose Robot Vision

Ales Ude

Jozef Stefan Institute

, Ales Leonardis

University of Ljubljana

,
Kostas Daniilidis

University of Pennsylvania

, Tamim Asfour

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

WSa2

Frontier of Bioinspired Systems based on Micro-Nanorobotics - Design, Energy, Integration -

Masahiro Nakajima

Nagoya UniversityU

, Keisuke Morishima

Osaka University

,
Toshio Fukuda

Meijo University

WSa3
CANCELLED

9th Full-day Workshop on Software Development and Integration in Robotics (SDIR-IX)

Davide Brugali

Università degli Studi di Bergamo

, Luca Gherardi

Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control

,
Issa Nesnas

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

, Ulrik Pagh Schultz

University of Southern Denmark

WSa4

What Sucks in Robotics and How to Fix It --- Lessons Learned from Building Complex Systems

Gian Diego Tipaldi

University of Freiburg

, Cyrill Stachniss

University of Freiburg

WSa5

Latest Advances on Natural Motion Understanding and Human Motion Synthesis

Emel Demircan

Stanford University

, Oussama Khatib

Stanford University

,
Yoshihiko Nakamura

University of Tokyo

, Gentiane Venture

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

,
Denny Oetomo

The University of Melbourne

WSa6

Artificial Intelligence in Rehabilitation Robotics

Domen Novak

ETH Zurich

, Robert Riener

ETH Zurich

WSa7

Experiences of Research on Robot Assistance for Industrial Environments

Mustafa Suphi Erden

ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)

, Ole Madsen

Aalborg University

,
Anders Billesø Beck

Technical University of Denmark, Danish Technological Institute

WSa8

Aerial Robots Physically Interacting with The Environment

Anibal Ollero

University of Seville

, Bruno Siciliano

University Napoli Federico II

,
Konstantin Kondak

German Aerospace Center

, Lorenzo Marconi

University of Bologna

WSa9

Autonomous Social Robots: The Ethical Challenges Ahead

Matthias Scheutz

Tufts University

WSa10

Affective Haptics for Human-Robot Interaction

Mehdi Ammi

University of Paris-XI

, Jean-Claude Martin

Université Paris-Sud

,
Adriana Tapus

ENSTA-ParisTech

WSa11

Autonomous Grasping and Manipulation: An Open Challenge

Renaud Detry

University of Liège

, Oliver Kroemer

TU Darmstadt

,
Danica Kragic

KTH

WSa12

Opportunities and Challenges of Joint Inference and Control in Mobile Robotics

Daniel Koditschek

University of Pennsylvania

, Vijay Kumar

University of Pennsylvania

,
Stefano Soatto

University of California, Los Angeles

, Avik De

University of Pennsylvania


WSa13

Advances in Flexible Access Robots for Surgical Interventions

Guang-Zhong Yang

Imperial College London

, Pierre Dupont

Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School

,
Koji Ikuta

The University of Tokyo

, Christos Bergeles

Imperial Col. London

,
Su-Lin Lee

Imperial College London

WSa14

Task-based Optimal Design of Robots

Cristiano Nattero

Universita' degli Studi di Genova

, Wei-Zhong Guo

Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityGenova

,
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

University of Genoa

June 1, 2014 (Sun), Full Day Workshops/Tutorials (9:00-17:30)

Session ID Title Organizers
WSu1

Workshop on Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments

Niko Sünderhauf

Chemnitz University of Technology

, Peter Corke

QUT

,
Michael J. Milford

Queensland University of Technology

WSu2

Future Challenges in Nanorobotics

Antoine Ferreira

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Bourges

, Sylvain Martel

Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (EPM)

,
Li Zhang

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

WSu3

ICRA 2014 Workshop on Long-Term Autonomy: Life-Long Learning for Real World Applications

Elizabeth Murphy

George Washington University

, Jonathan Kelly

University of Toronto

,
Paul Timothy Furgale

ETH Zürich

, Timothy Barfoot

University of Toronto

,
Gabe Sibley

George Washington University

WSu4

Full-day tutorial on The Low-cost, Fast-development, Modular Snake Robot Open Platforms.

Kamilo Melo

KM-RoBoTa

WSu5

Human Modeling and Control for Assistive Technologies

Yuichi Kurita

Hiroshima University

, Jun Ueda

Georgia Institute of Technology

,
Mitsunori Tada

Adv. Industrial Science and Tech.

, Ashish Deshpande

University of Texas

WSu6

Lower Limb Exoskeletons for Rehabilitation and Assistance

Jose Luis Pons

Spanish National Research Council

, etienne burdet

Imperial College London

,
Jan Veneman

Tecnalia

WSu7

Hydraulic Robots with Torque Control for Inverse Dynamics and Active Compliance

Claudio Semini

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

, Michele Focchi

Italian Institute of Technology

,
Thiago Boaventura

ETH Zurich

, Jonas Buchli

ETH Zurich

WSu8

Robotics and Military Applications: from Current Research and Deployments to Legal and Ethical Questions

Quang-Cuong Pham

Nanyang Technological University

Ludovic Righetti

Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

WSu9

Workshop on General Intelligence for Humanoid Robots

Benjamin Goertzel

Novamente LLC

WSu10

Advances in Robot Manipulation of Clothes and Flexible Objects

Giorgio Cannata

University of Genova

, Sotiris Malassiotis

CERTH

,
Vaclav Hlavac

Czech Technical University in Prague

WSu11

Workshop on Modelling, Estimation, Perception and Control of All Terrain Mobile Robots

Philippe Martinet

Ecole Centrale de Nantes

, Kazuya Yoshida

Tohoku University

,
Marcel Bergerman

Carnegie Mellon University

WSu12

Soft and stiffness-controllable robots for minimally invasive surgery

Kaspar Althoefer

Kings College London

, Fumiya Iida

ETH Zurich

,
Thrishantha Nanayakkara

King's College London

, Helge Arne Wurdemann

King's College London

,
Emanuele Lindo Secco

King's College London

June 1, 2014 (Sun), Half Day Workshops/Tutorials - Morning Sessions (9:00-12:30)

Session ID Title Organizers
WSu13

Crossing the Reality Gap: Control, Human Interaction and Cloud Technology for Multi- and Many- Robot Systems

Lorenzo Sabattini

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

, Joseph W. Durham

Kiva Systems

,
M. Ani Hsieh

Drexel University

, Donald Sofge

Naval Research Laboratory

,
Frank Ehlers

WTD71/FWG

WSu14

Robots in Homes and Industry: Where to Look First?

Michael Zillich

Vienna University of Technology

, Simone Frintrop

University of Bonn

,
Fiora Pirri

La Sapienza University of Rome

, James J. Little

UBC

,
Ekaterina Potapova

Vienna University of Technology

WSu15
CANCELLED

Human Centric System Design and Modelling for NeuroBased Biorobotics

K. H. Low

Nanyang Technological University

, Tianjiang Hu

National University of Defense Technology

,
Samer Mohammed

University of Paris Est Créteil - (UPEC)

, Kyoungchul Kong

Sogang University

,
Justin Seipel

Purdue

June 1, 2014 (Sun), Half Day Workshops/Tutorials - Afternoon Sessions (14:00-17:30)

Session ID Title Organizers
WSu16

On the centrality of decentralization in multi-robot systems: holy grail or false idol?

Antonio Franchi

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

, Paolo Robuffo Giordano

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

WSu17

ECHORD ++ : "New instruments for Strengthening the Academia-Industry Collaboration in Europe in the period 2013-2018"

Alberto Sanfeliu

Universitat Politècnica de Cataluyna

June 5, 2014 (Thu), Full Day Workshops/Tutorials (9:00-17:30)

Session ID Title Organizers
WTh1

Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-classical Cameras

Luis Puig

University of Pennsylvania

, Miguel Lourenço

University of Coimbra

, Davide Scaramuzza

University of Zurich

WTh2

Bio Assembler for 3D Cellular System Innovation

Tatsuo Arai

Osaka University

, Toshio Fukuda

Meijo University

,
Fumihito Arai

Nagoya University

, Masayuki Yamato

Tokyo Women's Medical Univeristy

,
Makoto Kaneko

Osaka University

WTh3

Persistent Autonomy for Marine Robotics

Francesco Maurelli

Heriot-Watt University

, David Lane

Heriot-Watt University

,
Kostas Kyriakopoulos

National Technical Univ. of Athens

, Petar Kormushev

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

,
Marc Carreras

Universitat de Girona

, Maria Fox

King's College London

WTh4

MATLAB/Simulink for Robotics Education and Research

Peter Corke

QUT

WTh5

Wearable Robotics for motion Assistance and rehabilitation - RoboAssist 2014

Nicola Vitiello

Scuola Superiore Sant Anna

, Samer Mohammed

University of Paris Est Créteil - (UPEC)

,
Juan Camilo Moreno

Spanish Council for Scientific Research-CSIC

WTh6

Neurobiologically Inspired Robotics workshop: Incorporating Brain Processing into Robots for Better Autonomy

Jeffrey Krichmar

University of California, Irvine

, Angelo Cangelosi

University of Plymouth, UK

,
Michael J Milford

Queensland University of Technology

, Michele Rucci

Boston University

,
Bertram Emil Shi

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

WTh7

Motion Planning for Industrial Robots

Dinesh Manocha

UNC at Chapel Hill

, Jean-Paul Laumond

LAAS-CNRS

,
Eiichi Yoshida

National Inst. of AIST

WTh8

Progress and Development of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Spherical Motors

Liang Yan

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

, I-Ming Chen

Nanyang Technological University

WTh9

3rd iCub and Friends Workshop

Lorenzo Natale

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

, Francesco Nori

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

,
Nikolaos Tsagarakis

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

, Giorgio Metta

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

WTh10

Soft Robots

Michael Yu Wang

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

June 5, 2014 (Thu), Half Day Workshops/Tutorials - Morning Sessions (9:00-12:30)

Session ID Title Organizers
WTh11

Research Challenges and Cross-cutting Applications of Modular Robot Systems

Prithviraj (Raj) Dasgupta

University of Nebraska, Omaha

, Carl Nelson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

,
José Baca

University of Nebraska at Omaha

WTh12
CANCELLED

Robotics  role in the Rehabilitation of children with Cerebral Palsy

Eduardo Rocon

CSIC

June 5, 2014 (Thu), Half Day Workshops/Tutorials - Afternoon Session (14:00-17:30)

Session ID Title Organizers
WTh13

Epistemological issues in robotics research and research result evaluation

Fabio Paolo Bonsignorio

Heron Robots srl Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

, Angel P. Del Pobil

Jaume-I University

,
John Hallam

University of Southern Denmark

, Elena Messina

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Daily Schedule

May 31, June 1 & June 5 Program

09:00 - 10:30

Workshops /Tutorials Sessions

10:30 - 10:50 

Coffee Break

10:50 - 12:30

Workshops /Tutorials Sessions

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Workshops /Tutorials Sessions

15:30 - 15:50

Coffee Break

15:50 - 17:30

Workshops /Tutorials Sessions

(Updated on February 10, 2014)