Robotics research jam session - 2015

PROGRAMME

9:30 Welcome and Introduction
Antonio Bicchi, Università di Pisa

9:45 Multi-contact interactions with humanoid robots: walking, grasping and balancing [Abstract]
Máximo Roa, Robotics and Mechatronics Center, DLR, Munich, Germany

10:15 Danger field, safety field and other assessments: how to guarantee safe human-robot collaboration [Abstract]
Paolo Rocco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

10:45 Weak force percepetion [Abstract]
Gabriel Baud-Bovy, Università di S. Raffaele, Milano e Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia di Genova, Italy

11:15 Coffee Break

11:30 Vision-based control of humanoid robots [Abstract]
Marilena Vendittelli, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

12:00 Title T.B.A.
Nikos Tsagarakis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia di Genova, Italy

12:30 A Simple General-Purpose Balance Controller for Planar Robots [Abstract]
Roy Featherstone, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia di Genova, Italy

13:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Why Robots Should Smell! Environmental Monitoring with Robot Systems [Abstract]
Achim Lilienthal, Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Sweden

14:30 Motion Planning for Real World Robots [Abstract]
Kris Hauser, Duke University, USA

15:00 Robotic Systems to Enhance Surgical Performance and Safety [Abstract]
Darwin Caldwell, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia di Genova, Italy

15:30 Keep in touch with robots: robot skin technology
Giorgio Cannata, Università di Genova, Italy [Abstract]

16:00 Coffee Break