Program

Detailed Program

Day 1 - 16 July

9:30 - 10:30 Keynote #1 Sylvain Calinon: "Frugal Learning of Robot Manipulation Skills"

11:00 - 13:00 Oral Session #1: Robot Learning, Manipulation and Skill Acquisition. Chairs: Sylvain Calinon, Matteo Saveriano.

11:00 - 11:15 Alex Pasquali, Roberto Meattini, Alessandra Bernardini, Andrea Govoni, Gianluca Laudante, Claudio Melchiorri and Gianluca Palli. "A Hierarchical HMM Framework for Force-Aware Programming by Demonstration".

11:15 - 11:30 Leonardo Rossi, Pietro Falco and Matteo Saveriano. "Irreversible Event-Aware Autonomous Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation with LLMs".

11:30 - 11:45 Andrea Protopapa, Davide Buoso, Francesca Pistilli and Giuseppe Averta. "Graph-Based Reward Learning for Interpretable Long-Horizon Manipulation from Demonstrations".

11:45 - 12:00  Jiatao Ding, Songqun Gao, Andrea Del Prete, Matteo Saveriano, "Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Safety-critical Robot Control".

12:00 - 12:15 Davide Buoso, Andrea Protopapa, Stefano Di Carlo, Francesca Pistilli and Giuseppe Averta. "GAP: Geometric Anchor Pre-training for Data-Efficient Visuomotor Learning of Manipulation Tasks".

12:15 - 12:30 Emanuele Cuzzocrea, Giuseppina Iannotti, Luca Rossini, Arturo Laurenzi and Nikolaos Tsagarakis. "A Structured Pipeline for Vision-Language Bimanual Manipulation".

12:30 - 12:45 Matteo Dalle Vedove, Fares J. Abu-Dakka, Luigi Palopoli, Daniele Fontanelli and Matteo Saveriano. "Robot Learning on Discrete Surfaces: Theory and Applications".

14:00 - 15:00 Keynote #2 Angelika Peer: "Endowing Robots with the Ability of Intention Recognition and Decision Making"

15:30 - 17:30 Oral Session #2: Applied HRC in Industrial, Medical and Field Settings. Chairs: Angelika Peer, Andrea Pupa.

15:30 - 15:45 Alessandro Adami, Sebastian Zudaire, Ruggero Carli and Pietro Falco. "Autonomous Active Perception for Real2Sim Using VLM-Generated Behavior Trees".

15:45 - 16:00 Isabel Barradas, Daniel Ferdinand Di Bella, Marco Matarese, Sebastian Mayrguendter, Filipp Frei, Angelika Peer and Antonella De Angeli. "Pilot requirements for drones operation in mountain rescue missions".

16:00 - 16:15 Cristiana Golfetto, Martin Albertsen Brandt, Javier Pérez de Frutos, Andreas Østvik, Maria Bolomiti, Esten Ingar Grøtli, Vegard Heimly Brun. "Robotic ultrasound for medical applications on aorta, kidney, and thyroid".

16:15 - 16:30 Andrea Pioli, Andrea Pupa and Cristian Secchi. "Hybrid Impulse–Impedance Control for Manipulation of Fragile Objects".

16:30 - 16:45 Marta Lorenzini, Andrea Fortuna and Arash Ajoudani. "WANDER: A Novel Mobile Platform for Personalized and Adaptive Walking Assistance".

16:45 - 17:00 Furkan Bayram, Yunus Furkan Öztürk and Dilek Tükel. "A Safety-Aware Integration Architecture for Human-Robot Collaboration in Automotive Manufacturing".

17:00 - 17:15 Luca Beber, Edoardo Lamon, Daniele Fontanelli, Matteo Saveriano and Luigi Palopoli. "Surface-Aware Robotic Palpation: From Planar Domains to 3D Point Clouds"

17:15 - 17:30 [REMOTE] Niccolò Lucci, Valentina Sanguineti, Claudio Del Gaizo, Michele Olivieri, Mauro Zitta and Alice Tori. "REWARD Robotics-Enhanced WEEE Adaptive Recycling and Disassembly".

Day 2 - 17 July

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote #3 Oya Celiktutan: "Towards Socially Adaptive Robots: Behaviour Modelling, Interaction, and Evaluation"

10:30 - 12:30 Oral Session #3: Social, Assistive and User-Centered HRI. Chairs: Oya Celiktutan, Marta Lorenzini.

10:30 - 10:45 Martina De Cet, Mohammad Obaid and Ilaria Torre. "The Role of Gender-Ambiguous Voices in Robot Perception and Design".

10:45 - 11:00 Simone Arreghini, Alessandro Giusti, Alex Bordini, Enrico Ferrara, Giovanni Fulgoni and Antonio Paolillo. "Towards Real-World Applications with an Autonomous Powered Wheelchair".

11:00 - 11:15 Anastasiya Ihnatovich and Igor Farkaš. "Imitation of Arm Gestures by the Semi-Humanoid Robot NICO".

11:15 - 11:30 Federico Biagi, Dario Onfiani, Simone Silenzi and Luigi Biagiotti. "Receiver-Centered Robot-to-Human Handover with Grasp-Aware Object Orientation".

11:30 - 11:45 Shana Dedò, Davide Frova, Antonio Paolillo and Monica Landoni. "Cuteness Under the Skin: Exploring Child-Robot Interaction in Classrooms".

11:45 - 12:00 Tímea Kovács, Melitta Csepregi, Sára Roszik, Beáta Korcsok, Ádám Miklósi and Márta Gácsi. "Are social robots child-friendly? A behavioural study of a quadruped and a waiter-assistant robot".

12:00 - 12:15 Virginia Bianchi, Chantal Ho and Jason Pridmore. "Empowerment by Design: The SEISMEC Framework for Human-Centric Technology Implementation".

13:30 - 14:30 Keynote #4 Cristian Secchi: "Building a Safe and Seamless Human-Robot Synergy: the Energy Tank approach"

14:30 - 16:30 Oral Session #4: Safe Planning, Navigation and Autonomous Control. Chairs: Cristian Secchi, Roberto Meattini.

14:30 - 14:45 Sayantan Auddy, Jakob Hollenstein, Matteo Saveriano, Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez and Justus Piater. "Scalable and Efficient Continual Learning from Demonstration via Hypernetwork-generated Stable Dynamics Model".

14:45 - 15:00 Giulia d'Addato, Luigi Palopoli and Daniele Fontanelli. "Confidence-Aware Social Navigation Using Opinion Dynamics and Modulated Vortex Fields".

15:00 - 15:15 Filippo Bernabei and Cristian Secchi. "A constraint-driven control system for autonomous vehicles navigating in urban environment".

15:15 - 15:30 Gianni Lunardi, Elias Fontanari, Matteo Saveriano and Andrea Del Prete. "Beyond Terminal Constraints: Reliable Robot Control with Learned Safe Sets".

15:30 - 15:45 Chinmay Mundane. "MPPI Planning with Gaussian Based Human Cost Function for Social Navigation".

15:45 - 16:00 Andrea Pupa, Kelvin Simeone and Cristian Secchi. "May the Field Be with You: Adaptive Potential Fields via Deep RL".

16:00 - 16:15 Elena Basei, Edoardo Lamon, Matteo Saveriano, Daniele Fontanelli and Luigi Palopoli. "Proactive Human-Aware Motion Planning for Human-Robot Cooperation".

16:15 - 16:30 Ivo Batkovic, Mohammad Ali, Paolo Falcone and Mario Zanon. "Safe Trajectory Tracking in Uncertain Environments".