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Full-day Workshop on

New Bodies for Cognitive Humanoids


In conjunction with the
11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 9:00 - 17:00

Objectives

The workshop addresses the question of how the body morphology must support processes and representations for emergence of cognitive capabilities and discuss topics related to novel design methodologies of humanoids robots including (but not limited to) new design principles, compliant, high-performance and energy efficient actuators, sensor technologies (in particular skin), soft materials, as well as dynamically reconfigurable software and hardware architectures and high density lightweight power sources.

Topics of interest:
  • Body morphology
  • Mechatronics and Biomechanics
  • Actuation and compliance
  • Artificial skins
  • Soft materials
  • New computing paradigms
  • Energy and power management

Program

 

9:00

Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Welcome

Towards High-Performance 24/7 Humanoids

9:30

Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Elastic Bodyware for Bio-Inspired Humanoids

10:00

Yuto Nakanishi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Challenge to Design and Control of more Humanlike Tendon-Driven Musculoskeletal Humaonids

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Yoshihiko Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan
On the Requirements of New Actuator for the New Body of Humanoids

11:30

Alin Albu-Schaeffer, DLR, Germany
Design and Control of DLR Compliant Robots

12:00

Nikos Tsagarakis, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Developing Actuators with Rich Motor Properties for Emerging Humanoids

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Kazuhito Yokoi and Kenji Kaneko, AIST, Japan
Design of Cybernetic Human HRP-4C

14:00

Tomoaki Yoshikai, The University of Tokyo
Humanoids with Whole-Body Soft Sensor Flesh for Close Interaction with Humans, Objects, and Environments

14:30

Giorgio Metta, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Advances in the Design of the iCub Humanoid Robot: Force Control and Tactile Sensing

15:00

Coffee Break

15:30

Erhan Oztop, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey
Projecting from Human-in-the-Loop Control to Cognitive Robot Design

16:00

James Kuffner; Google & CMU
New Cloud-Based Computational Architectures for Humanoids

16:30

Panel discussion

17:00

End

Location

see Humanoids 2011 webpage

Organizers

Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Ales Ude, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Giorgio Metta, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Gordon Cheng, Technical University Munich, Germany
Giulio Sandini, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Rüdiger Dillmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany