Workshop at IROS 2017, Vancouver, Canada, September 24th 2017, Room 217-219
Collaborative robots (Cobots) are intended to safely operate alongside humans. They need the software capabilities to be quickly deployable in a new environment and set to work on a potentially difficult task with minimum effort and without the need for expert programming. The human-robot collaboration (HRC) field has provided tools like learning by demonstration and task learning to address some of these problems. Techniques like deep learning and reinforcement learning are rapidly advancing towards a robot autonomously acquiring complex skills.
Industry 4.0 has also introduced new challenges, requiring production units to be no longer isolated with highly specialized tasks, but gathered in a fully integrated and optimized production flow. As a result, the production volume can be easily aligned to the market fluctuation and the product diversity can increase to better meet the customer needs. In this new scenario, Cobots are intelligent machines that can be integrated into the labor force to increase the overall productivity. The main challenge here is to achieve human manipulation and grasping capabilities to fulfill similar tasks.
This workshop will bring together participants from academia and industry alike to share advancements and new technologies in the field of collaborative robotics. The attendees of this workshop will be introduced to collaborative robotics and learning techniques from academic experts in the field. Experts from the industry will explain the current needs in industrial manufacturing and robotics, which will inspire researchers with challenges drawn from real use case scenarios. Experts from the academia will bring the latest advancements in the field, providing potential new solutions to real problems. The organizers and the invited speakers of this workshop have a multidisciplinary background that will stimulate interesting discussions, promote the cross-fertilization of ideas and encourage future collaborations.
Topics of interest
- Skill-Learning from Human Demonstrations
- Human-In-The-Loop Control of Robotic Systems
- Multi-Modal HRC Interfaces
- Modeling and Analysis of Human Physical Behavior
- Learning Human Sensorimotor Control
- Stability of HRC Control Schemes
- Expected Impact of HRC in Cross-Domain Applications
- Mutual Learning and Adaptation in Human-Robot Systems
- Case Studies and Experiments
- Objective Measures: How to Quantify Efficiency, Safety and Intuitiveness in HRC?
Important Dates
Speakers and Talks
- Guilherme Maeda (TU Darmstadt): Interaction Primitives for Collaborative Robotics
- Abderrahmane Kheddar (CNRS): Humanoid Cobotics: Application Case in Large-Scale Airliner Manufacturing
- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (KUKA Roboter GmbH): Lessons Learned and Challenges for the Future of Flexible Manufacturing
- Keith Blanchet (Kinova Robotics): Machines Learning to Serve Individuality : The Pathway to Mainstream Social Acceptance and Accessibility
- Dana Kulić (University of Waterloo): Collaborative Plan Configuration for Industrial Mobile Robots
- Tadej Petric (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia): What Should Robots Learn from Us?
- Sylvain Calinon (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland): Challenges in Extending Learning from Demonstration to Collaborative Robotics
- Arash Ajoudani (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy): Anticipatory Robot Control for Ergonomic Human-Robot Collaboration
Program
Tentative schedule for the workshop:
09.00 - 09.10 |
Introduction by Luca Colasanto |
09.10 - 09.30 | Research Talk by Tadej Petric |
09.30 - 10.15 | Research Talk by Guilherme Maeda |
10.15 - 11.00 | Industry Talk by Rainer Bischoff |
11.00 - 11.15 | Break |
11.15 - 11.45 | Spotlight presentations from contributing speakers |
11.45 - 12.15 | Interactive presentations from contributing speakers |
12.15 - 13.15 | Lunch |
13.15 - 14.00 | Industry Talk by Keith Blanchet |
14.00 - 14.45 | Research Talk by Abderrahmane Kheddar |
14.45 - 15.30 | Research Talk by Dana Kulić |
15.30 - 15.45 | Break |
15.45 - 16.05 |
Research Talk by Arash Ajoudani |
16.05 - 16.25 |
Research Talk by Sylvain Calinon |
16.25 - 17.00 |
Round table discussion on specific areas of interest. The topics will be determined based on input before the workshop from potential attendees and feedback collected from all participants during the workshop. |
17.00 - 17.15 |
Summary discussion of round table discussions by the workshop organizers and invited speakers |
Contributed Extended Abstracts
- Optimized Fuzzy Impedance Control for Empowering Human in Execution of Onerous Task with Manipulators
Loris Roveda, Alessio Prini, Tito Dinon, Shaghayegh Haghshenas, Nicola Pedrocchi, Francesco Braghin and Lorenzo Molinari Tosatti - Towards Learning Task Intentions from Human Demonstrations
Tim Welschehold, Nichola Abdo, Christian Dornhege and Wolfram Burgard - Dynamic Dumbbell - Novel Training Machine with Programmable Exercise Load
Chan Lee and Sehoon Oh - Adaptive walk-through programming for industrial applications
Federica Ferraguti, Chiara Talignani Landi, Cristian Secchi and Cesare Fantuzzi - Transferring Robotics Software from Research to Industry: the OpenSoT Library
Enrico Mingo Hoffman - A System for Situated Tangible Programming of Robot Skills
Yasaman S. Sefidgar, Sarah Elliott, Maya Cakmak
Organizers
- Luca Colasanto, (Robert Bosch LLC, Palo Alto USA), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Juergen Hess, (Robert Bosch LLC, Palo Alto USA), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Lorenzo Riano (Robert Bosch LLC, Palo Alto USA), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Arash Ajoudani (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Tadej Petric (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Clemens Eppner (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Benjamin Rosman (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and University of Witwatersrand, South Africa), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Sylvain Calinon (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.