Program details

DAY 1 - 20th September 

Workshop presentations and keynotes will take place at TUM Vorhoelzer Forum (Arcisstr. 21, 80333 München)

9:15   Welcome

9:30   Keynote 1 - Patrick Van der Smagt, Volkswagen Group

                           "Predict to control"

10:30  Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30   Paper session - Social robots

11:00   "Towards a Holistic Framework for Explainable Robot Navigation"

    Amar Halilovic and Senka Krivic 

11:15 "Emotion-Aware Control Framework for HRC"

   Andrea Pupa, Raffaele Varrecchia and Cristian Secchi

11:30   "Unpacking the Complexity of Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) Communication Intentions through Ontology"

       Nicolas Niessen, Florian Rothmeyer, Andreas Rücker, Johannes Fottner and Klaus Bengler

11:45    "A Concise Overview of Safety Aspects in Human-Robot Interaction"

Mazin Hamad, Simone Nertinger, Robin Kirschner, Luis Figueredo, Abdeldjallil Naceri and Sami Haddadin

12:00 "Safe Multimodal Communication in Human-Robot Collaboration"

    Davide Ferrari, Andrea Pupa and Cristian Secchi 

12:15  "Unraveling the Elements of Effective Altruistic Appeals through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing"

   Sourav Yadav, Sankalp Arora, Akash Kumar and Kaveri Verma

12:30 Lunch Break

13:30     Keynote 2 - Antonio Bicchi, University of Pisa 

  "Variable stiffness motor control in humans, robots, and prosthetics" 

14:30 - 15:45 Paper session - Design and Telepresence

14:30 "A Hybrid Control Approach for a Pneumatic-actuated Soft Robot"

   Emilio Tavio Y Cabrera, Cosimo Della Santina and Pablo Luis Borja Rosales

14:45 "Evaluation of Tactile Feedback for Teleoperated Glove-Based Interaction Tasks"

   Omer Erencan Dural, Asad Ali Shahid, Guido Gioioso, Domenico Prattichizzo, Francesco Braghin and Loris Roveda

15:00 "BICEP: a Bio-Inspired Compliant Elbow Prosthesis"

   Theophil Spiegeler Castañeda, Bart Horstman, Patricia Capsi-Morales, Cosimo Della Santina and Cristina Piazza

15:15 "Tendon to object space: Evaluation of anthropomorphic finger for human-like performance"

   Junnan Li, Amartya Ganguly, Luis F.C. Figueredo and Sami Haddadin

15:30 "Explainable Human-Robot Interaction for imitation learning in Augmented Reality"

   Anna Belardinelli, Chao Wang and Michael Gienger 

15:45     Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00 Poster Session

• [P01] "A Power-Aware Control Strategy for an Elbow Effort-Compensation Device", Emir Mobedi, Sebastian Hjorth, Arash Ajoudani

• [P02] "EMG-controlled VR serious gaming system for functionality and embodiment quantification", Johanna Happold, Diogo Morais, Patricia Capsi-Morales, Cristina Piazza

• [P03] "Impact of Anthropomorphism Dimensions on Task Load during Cooperative Human and Robot Hand Movements", Kolja Kühnlenz, Moritz Polz, David Rotenberger, Fabian Schipmann, Mertcan Kaya

• [P04] "Towards Snapping Inflatable Metamaterials for Mechanical Intelligence in Soft Machines", Edoardo Milana

• [P05] "Environment-based Assistance Modulation for a Hip Exosuit via Computer Vision", Enrica Tricomi, Mirko Mossini, Francesco Missiroli, Nicola Lotti, Xiaohui Zhang, Michele Xiloyannis, Loris Roveda, Lorenzo Masia

• [P06] "Toward Human-in-the-loop Real-world Shared-control with Error-related Potentials FeedbacK", Viktorija Dimova-Edeleva, Oscar Soto Rivera, Riddhiman Laha, Luis F. C. Figueredo, Melissa Zavaglia, Sami Haddadin

• [P07] "Predictive Multi-Agent based Planning and Landing Controller for Reactive Dual-Arm Manipulation", Riddhiman Laha, Marvin Becker, Luis F. C. Figueredo, Matthias A. Müller and Sami Haddadin

• [P08] "Determinants of robot acceptance: Insights from a representative study", Sarah Ball, Jacob Beck, Frauke Kreuter, Bolei Ma, Jörn Vogel, Theresa Willem and Stuart Mc Lennan

• [P09] "Modularity in humanoid robot design for flexibility in the system structure", Sebastian Wolf, Cynthia Hofmann, Thomas Bahls and Henry Maurenbrecher

• [P10] "Animated Surfaces for Novel Robot-Rooms", Ian Walker, Nithesh Kumar, Keith Green 

• [P11] "Changing Gait Mechanics and Muscle Activity in Patients with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy using a Robotic Ankle Exosuit", Maxwell Thurston, Harri Piitulainen, Ivan Vujaklija, Janne Avela and Juha-Pekka Kulmala

• [P12] "Vector Field Design for Reactive and Dynamic Manipulation", Xuming Meng, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Manuel Keppler

• [P13] "Visuo-Tactile based Active Object Parameter Inference with Dual Differentiable Filter", Anirvan Dutta, Etienne Burdet and Mohsen Kaboli

19:30 Social dinner @Augustiner-Keller

Arnulfstraße 52, 80335 München 

DAY 2 - 21th September 

Workshop presentations and keynotes will take place at TUM Vorhoelzer Forum (Arcisstr. 21, 80333 München)

9:00 Keynote 3 - Christian Ott, Vienna University of Technology

                        "Manipulation and locomotion with elastic robots"

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00   Paper session - Control of robots

10:30     "Task Space Control of Hydraulic Construction Machines using Reinforcement Learning"

    Hyung Joo Lee and Sigrid Brell-Cokcan

10:45     "Joint Position Bounds in Resolved-Acceleration Control: a Comparison"

    Andrea Testa, Luigi Raiano, Marco Laghi, Arash Ajoudani and Enrico Mingo Hoffman

11:00       "Quantifying Uncertainties of Contact Classifications in a Human-Robot Collaboration with Parallel Robots"

    Aran Mohammad, Hendrik Muscheid, Moritz Schappler and Thomas Seel

11:15       "Development of a Patient Behaviour Model for an Adaptive Medical Robot"

    Giovanni Soavi, Tilman Knopp, Hendrik Börner, Fabian Hirt, Xavier Hildenbrand, Alexander König, Helfried Peyrl and Roberto Diversi

11:30       "Imitation Learning-based Visual Servoing for the Tracking of Moving Objects"

    Rocco Felici, Matteo Saveriano, Loris Roveda and Antonio Paolillo

11:45       "Smooth real-time motion planning based on a cascade dual-quaternion screw-geometry MPC"

     Ainoor Teimoorzadeh, Frederico Fernandes Afonso Silva, Luis Figueredo and Sami Haddadin

12:00       Lunch Break

13:00       Keynote 4 - Adriana Tapus, ENSTA Paris

                        "Exploring the Unknown: Assistive Robotics Challenges in Long-Term Interaction, Personalization, and Trust"

14:00 Poster session

• [P01] "NearContact: Accurate Human Detection using Tomographic Proximity and Contact Sensing with Cross-modal Attention", Guillem Garrofé, Christian Schoeffmann, Hubert Zangl, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Hyosang Lee

• [P02] "Robust Interaction and H infinity Optimization with the ESP Framework for Articulated Soft Robots", David Wandinger, Clara Raschel and Manuel Keppler

• [P03] "6IMPOSE: Bridging the Reality Gap in 6D Pose Estimation for Robotic Grasping", Hongpeng Cao, Lukas Dirnberger, Daniele Bernardini, Cristina Piazza and Marco Caccamo

• [P04] "Autonomous Robotic System for Breast Biopsy With Deformation Compensation", Sandro Ferrari, Eleonora Tagliabue, Bogdan Mihai Maris and Paolo Fiorini

• [P05] "Human-friendly robot systems deployment using virtual pen", Bruno Maric, Filip Zoric, Antun Ivanovic, Frano Petric and Matko Orsag

• [P06] "Probabilistic learning and adaptation of shared control skills for assistive robots", Gabriel Quere, Freek Stulp, David Filliat, João Silvério

• [P07] "Would You Hold My Hand? Exploring External Observers' Perception of Artificial Hands", Svenja Schoett, Patricia Capsi-Morales, Steeven Villa, Andreas Butz, Cristina Piazza

• [P08] "Acceptance of domestic social robots by older adults", Anže Mihelič, Boštjan Žvanut, Ina Hennen

• [P09] "Robust Independent Component Analysis estimates the motor neuron firings, fast and with increased accuracy", Ioannis Xygonakis, Melissa Zavaglia, Sami Haddadin 

• [P10] "Upper-Limb Exosuit Assistance Modulation via Computer Vision", Francesco Missiroli, Enrica Tricomi, Lorenzo Masia 

• [P11] "Human-aware Path Planning in Different Dynamic Environments", Kuanqi Cai, Luis Figueredo and Sami Haddadin

• [P12] "Cartesian Impedance Tracking Control of Variable Stiffness Robots - Concept Validation in Simulation", Marie Harder, Alexander Dietrich, Manuel Keppler

• [P13] "Human Neuromechanics and Control Strategies to Excite Motions in (Non-) Linear Systems", Annika Schmidt, Marion Forano, David Franklin, Alin Albu-Schäffer

16:00       Award and Closing

17:00       Demos at Deutsches Museum

Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München

Overview and Tour Framing the Ki.Fabrik  Approach  (presented by  Nader  Rajaei)
Learning from Demonstration (presented by  Marko Pavlic) 

Digital Twin-Mediated Teleoperation (presented by Theresa Prinz)

Collective Learning (presented by  Samuel Schneider)

Intelligent prostheses (presented by Patricia Capsi-Morales)

19:00 Farewell Cocktail @Deutsches Museum

DAY 3 - 22th September (optional)

10:45 Meet at DLR    [meeting point]

11:00 - 12:15 Lab tour @ Robotics and Mechatronics Center

11:00      Humanoid robot TORO (TOrque-controlled humanoid RObot)    [link]

   presented by Jinoh Lee, Robert Schuller

11:15     Soft hand CoRE    [link]

    presented by Werner Friedl, Ana Elvira Huezo 

11:25     SEA-powered quadruped Bert    [link]

   presented by Antonin Raffin 

11:35     Anthropomorphic robot David    [link]

   presented by Sebastian Wolf

11:45     Versatile robot arm for medical applications MIRO    [link]

   presented by Katharina Hagmann

12:00     EMG-controlled daily assistant EDAN    [link]

   presented by Gabriel Quere