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Full-day Workshop on

On Real World Challenges for Humanoids


In conjunction with the
12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Thursday, November 29, 2012, 9:30 - 17:00

 

Objectives

Considerable progress has been made in humanoid research resulting in a number of advanced mechatronic systems able to move and perform well-designed tasks. Ambitious goals have been set for future humanoid robotics. They are expected to serve as companions and assistants for humans in daily life and as ultimate helpers in man-made and natural disasters. In 2050, a team of humanoid robots soccer players shall win against the winner of most recent World Cup. DARPA announced recently the next Grand Challenge in robotics: building robots which do things like humans in a world made for humans.

The goal of this workshop is bring together researchers to present their views on science and enabling technologies for the development of the next generation of high-performance humanoid robots.

Topics of interest:
  • High performance humanoids
  • Lessons learnt from humanoid research
  • Killer applications of humanoids
  • Real world challenges for humanoids

 

Program

 

9:30

Masayuki Inaba and Tamim Asfour
Welcome

9:40

Kazuhito Yokoi, AIST, Japan
What we have been doing with humanoid robots?

10:10

Sven Behnke, University of Bonn, Germany
From Humanoid Soccer to Domestic Service Tasks

10:40

Mike Stilman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Planning with Movable Obstacles in the Real World

11:10

Giorgio Metta, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Force and tactile control for human-robot interaction

11:40

Mrinal Kalakrishnan, University of Southern California, USA
Real-world Autonomous Robotic Manipulation: Challenges faced and lessons learnt.

12:10

Lunch Break

13:00

Kei Okada, The University of Tokyo, Japan
From Mobile Manipulation to Humanoid Robot

13:30

Abderrahmane Kheddar, CNRS-AIST JRL (Japan) and CNRS-UM2 LIRMM-IDH (France)
Contact Humanoids

14:00

Nikos Tsagarakis, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Design Challenges and Perspectives of Compliant Humanoids: Introduction to the COMAN platform

14:30

Angel P. del Pobil, Jaume I University, Spain
The Challenge of Autonomous, Versatile and Dependable Physical Interaction

15:00

Coffee Break

15:30

Impulse talks (each 5-7 minutes) and discussion
Moderation: Tamim Asfour and Masayuki Inaba

  • Hirochika Inoue, Univeristy of Tokyo, Japan
  • Gill Pratt, DARPA, USA
  • Rüdiger Dillmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan
  • Jean-Paul Laumond, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
  • Giulio Sandini, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
  • Jun Morimoto, ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs, Kyoto, Japan
  • Koichi Nishwaki, AIST, Toyko, Japan

16:30

End

 

Location

Business Innovation Center Osaka, Room TA(5F), see Humanoids 2012 webpage

 

 

Organizers

Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Masayuki Inaba, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ales Ude, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Rüdiger Dillmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany