Post date: May 19, 2018 11:21:29 PM
Our proposed workshop "RoboTac: New Progress in Tactile Perception and Learning in Robotics "has been accepted. It is a full day workshop on October 1, 2018 in Madrid/Spain.
The sense of touch plays an important role in our daily lives from perceiving the environment, grasping and manipulating objects to identifying, learning about and interacting with them. Compensating for the lack of touch with other human senses is difficult. For robotic systems that interact with dynamic environments and objects therein, it is crucial to recognize objects via their physical properties (such as surface texture, stiffness, center of mass, and thermal conductivity) and to be able to safely manipulate them. However, these are difficult to achieve even with advanced vision techniques, which are often marred by occlusion, poor lighting situations, and a lack of precision. As an alternative, tactile sensing can simultaneously provide rich and direct feedback to the robotic systems. Moreover, the robots with the sense of touch need to learn continuously and efficiently from tactile experience and update their models of the objects and environment (Tactile Transfer knowledge). This tactile learning strategy keeps a robot stable and adaptable to respond to new stimuli receiving from the surrounding.
CFP is open. The important dates are:
Paper Submission Deadline: August 15th, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: September 1st, 2018
Camera-Ready Deadline: September 15th, 2018
More detailed information can be found :
https://www.ics.ei.tum.de/en/ws_iros_robotac/