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ICRA 2020 Forth Full-Day Workshop:
“Towards Real-World Deployment of Legged Robots”
Day: 22 June - 3 July, 2020
Virtual: Zoom/Youtube
Discussion: Zoom/Youtube/ICRA Slack (#ws23)
Web-page: https://sites.google.com/view/leggedrobotworkshop2020
ICRA 2020: https://www.icra2020.org/
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Call for Poster/Paper Contribution
The workshop is soliciting posters (through extended abstract papers) for a virtual pre-recorded session for all the participants.
To participate, please submit a 1 (min) to 2 (max) pages extended abstract paper (PDF file –6MB max– in the IEEE ICRA 2020 template format): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RWDLR2020.
All contributions will undergo a brief review by the organizers and the program committee, and the authors will be notified.
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Important Dates
Poster abstract submission: 20/06/2020
Notification of acceptance: 21/06/2020
Workshop: 22/06/2020 - 03/07/2020
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Objectives
Subterranean environments, collapsed buildings, and disaster areas are some of the most challenging environments to traverse, representing a high risk even for humans due to factors such as changing environment over time, rough and unstable terrain and low visibility conditions. Legged robots, which are capable of traversing challenging environments thanks to their high mobility and locomotion capabilities, still fail to negotiate these kinds of scenarios successfully. Moreover, there are only a few real-world deployments of legged robots, and again complex terrain settings present significant challenges to be solved. In this context, we are seeking for robotic solutions that can map, navigate, search, and manipulate in dynamic environments rapidly. This workshop will explore possible real-world applications of legged robots, will discuss the missing technology that is holding back the deployment of legged robots, and will feature both distinguished invited speakers and solicited papers.
Due to the high mobility and versatility, legged robots offer the ability to negotiate challenging terrains. Because of these properties, legged robots are more suitable than their wheeled and tracked counterparts to accomplish real-world tasks in challenging environments.
Conquering challenging environments is an attractive real-world application for legged robots, and current technologies fail to provide a solution for this. Revolutionizing the way how we operate in disaster areas give first responders the possibility to map, navigate, search, and manipulate in dynamic and rough environments. In addition, industrial applications in urban undergrounds, mines, and industrial factories offer a huge potential for robotic companies. Due to the changing environment over time, rough and unstable terrain and low visibility conditions, some of the environments represent a high risk even for humans. The significance of this topic is for example strengthened by the upcoming DARPA Subterranean Challenge which seeks novel approaches to revolutionize the operation in underground environments.
In this workshop, we explore the deployment of such kind of systems to real-world applications such as disaster response, remote inspection, and exploration in many different environments. Based on this discussion, we propose to bring together researchers and industry experts in the field of legged robots to discuss the applications and the missing technologies that are holding back the deployment of legged robots
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Topics of interest
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Organizers
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Program committee:
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Invited Speakers
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Support
This proposed workshop is supported by the IEEE RAS Technical Committees on:
1) Whole-Body Control [Prof. Jaeheung Park, Dr. Federico Moro, Prof. Alexander Dietrich, and Prof. Luis Sentis]
2) Mechanism and Design [Prof. Claudio Semini, Prof. Kyujin Cho, Prof. Matei Ciocarlie, and Prof. Aaron Dollar]
3) Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion [Prof. Lydia Tapia and Prof. Sertac Karaman]
4) UK-RAS Legged Robotics Task Group [Profs. Maurice Fallon, Ioannis Havoutis, Dimitrios Kanoulas, Chengxu Zhou, Zhibin Li, and Michael Mistry]
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Acknowledgement
This proposed workshop is supported by the H2020- ICT-2017-1 (no.780883) THING, ICT-23-2014 (no. 644727) CogImon European Commission projects, and the Swiss National Science Foundation through the National Centres of Competence in Research Robotics (NCCR Robotics).