Control for Manipulators in the Real World

Schedule (Grand Salon 4)

Zoom link: https://odu.zoom.us/j/99073912016?pwd=agMk93tYgruI6B6cM0ntiibuinFBUS.1 

9:00-9:15 am: Welcoming remarks from the organizers

9:15am-10:00am: Opening

Logan Beaver

10:00-10:30am Coffee Break

10:30-12:00pm: Sandia I

Raymond Kim

Jonathon Slightam

12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch Break

1:30-1:35pm: Afternoon remarks from the organizers

1:35 pm-3:00pm: Embodied Manipulation Talks

Andrew Sabelhaus

Gerald Eaglin

3:00-3:30pm: Coffee Break

3:30-4:00: Closing discussion and remarks from the organizers

Workshop Description

This workshop will explore the challenges that arise for robotic manipulation outside of the laboratory. Real-world environments challenge every component in a control pipeline. Actuation can be especially challenging due to environmental uncertainty, unknown (and possibly compliant) physics of manipulated objects, and instabilities due to mechanical coupling during manipulation. This can lead to catastrophic safety failures that risks damage to the environment or the robot itself. This full-day workshop brings together researchers working on different aspects of manipulator control to present recent results in real-world manipulation tasks. We will explore open problems appropriate to the control community, including compliant control and stability of manipulation, overcoming environmental uncertainty, and managing highly dynamic events. The workshop features speakers on compliant manipulation, machine learning approaches, compliant control, and applications in real-world domains. The workshop includes a student poster session and interdisciplinary panel discussion to facilitate engagement with attendees, with the aim of collaboratively exploring interesting open problems that are relevant to the control systems community.

Confirmed Speakers

Organizers