22.10. Arrival
23.10.
8:30 – 8:45am Welcome and Introduction
8:45am – 11:15am Talks (including one coffee break)
Control
- 8:45 – 9:30 Giorgio Grioli (IIT, (Soft hands and grasping fundamentals)
- 9:30 – 10:15 Sami Haddadin (TUM, Munich advanced adaptive control) – “Unified Force-Impedance Control”
- 10:15 – 10:30 Break
- 10:30 – 11:15 Ales Ude (JSI, Ljubljana robot skill learning) – “Deep neural networks and data-driven robot skill learning”
11:15am – 3pm Lunch and Discussions
3pm – 6:30pm Talks (including one coffee break)
Automation and Robotics in Industrial Recycling:
- 3:00 – 3:30 Sven Grieger (Fraunhofer IWKS, Alzenau and Hanau) – “Circular economy in the hydrogen industry – recycling, re-use and design for circularity of fuel cell systems”
- 3:30 – 4:00 Sven Grieger (EARN – European Advanced Recycling Network) – “How to improve the collection of WEEE – collection methods and take-back solutions”
Control (continued)
- 4:00 – 4:45 Bojan Nemec (JSI, Ljubljana advanced adaptive control) – “Disassembly and Assembly Learning Exploiting Compliant Control and Environmental Constraints”
- 4:45 – 5:00 Break
- 5:00 – 5:45 Fumitoshi Matsuno (Osaka Inst of Tech, adv. adaptive control) – “Control of Hyper-redundant Systems and Application to a Snake Robot”
- 5:45 – 6:30 Lars Johannsmeier (FRANKA Emika, advanced mechanics for robots) – “Synthesis and Structured Learning for Tactile Manipulation Skills”
7:00 dinner
24.10.
8:30am – 11am Talks (including one coffee break)
Computer Vision and neural Networks
- 8:30 – 9:15 Florentin Wörgötter (Univ. Göttingen, computer vision) – “Action and Manipulation Encoding for Robots and Humans”
- 9:15 – 10:00 Justus Piater (Univ. Innsbruck, AI and robotics) – “Ramping Up Robot Intelligence”
- 10:00 – 10:15 Break
- 10:15 – 11:00 Minija Tamosiunaite (Univ. Göttingen, networks and cognition) – “Learning concepts grounded in sensory information”
11am – 3pm Lunch and Discussions
3pm – 7:00pm Student Talks (including one coffee break)
- 3:00 – 3:20 Marco Baracca (IIT)
- 3:20 – 3:40 Mihael Simonic (JSI)
- 3:40 – 4:00 Robin Kirschner (TUM)
- 4:00 – 4:20 Minghao Cheng (UGOE)
- 4:20 – 4:40 Break
- 4:40 – 5:00 Boris Kuster (JSI)
- 5:00 – 5:20 Xioa Chen (TUM)
- 5:20 – 5:40 Shija Li (UGOE)
- 5:40 – 6:00 Giulia Pagnanelli (IIT)
7:30 dinner
25.10. Experiments
- 8:30 Introduction to programming exercises
- 9:00 (approx.). Programming exercises and lunch, etc.
- 5:00 – 5:45 Presentation of solutions
- 5:45 – 7:00 Poster session
7:30pm Dinner
26.10.
8:30am – 11am Talks (including one coffee break)
Humaoids
- 8:30 – 9:15 Tomas Kulvicius (University of Göttingen) – “Shortest path planning on grids and graphs using networks with and without learning”
- 9:15 – 10:00 Julia Borras-Sol – “Understanding cloth manipulation: representation, grasping, manipulation and explainability”
- 10:00 – 10:15 Break
- 10:15 – 11:00 Oliver Brock (TU Berlin, algorithmic foundations for complex robots) – “Taking Matters Into Soft Hands – About the Synergy of Learning and Embodiment”
11am – 3pm Lunch and Discussions
3pm – 6:30pm Talks (including one coffee break)
Soft Methods and Human in the Loop
- 3:00 – 3:45 Sylvain Calinon (IDIAP, Martigny) human-centered robotics) – “Robot learning from few samples by exploiting the structure and geometry of data”
- 3:45 – 4:30 Antonio Bicchi (IIT, Genova, Soft Mechanics) – “Compliance, underactuation and environment: how do we manipulate our hands”
- 4:30 – 5:00 Break
- 5:00 – 5:45 Manuel Catalano (IIT, Genova, Soft Mechanics) – “Design Principles and Technologies for Soft Robotic End-Effectors”
- 5:45 – 6:30 Riccardo Persichini (QBRobotics, Pisa, Soft Hands) – “From research labs to the market: developing a product (robotic softhand)”