Reconfigurable Manipulation Robots

Schedule

Half day of January 21

  14:00 - 14:10 Opening Remarks by Organizers

  14:10 - 14:30 Genichiro Matsuda
"Development of An Autonomous Disassembly Robot Using Design Information"

  14:30 - 14:50 Natsuki Yamanobe
"Enhancing Human Comfort and Productivity Towards Human-centered Manufacturing Systems"

  14:50 - 15:10 Tobias Ortmaier
"Re-Configuration of Robots and Automation Cells - A Software Enabled Approach"

  15:10 - 15:30 Roman Weitschat
"The Future of Manufacturing: Plug-and-Produce Robot Work Cells for Versatile Automation"

  15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break, Poster Session, and Robot Demonstration

Poster presentation list

1. Jeremy Siburian, Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez, Masashi Hamaya

"A holistic robotic framework: Integrating task planning, motion planning, and learning-based skills"

2. Akash Chikhalikar, Ankit A. Ravankar, Jose Victorio Salazar Luces, Yasuhisa Hirata

"Task Planning Using Large Language Models and Semantic Maps For Open Vocabulary Assistance in Service Robots"

3. Ryo Sakagami, Andreas Dömel, Peter Lehner, Sebastian Riedel, Sebastian G. Brunner, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Freek Stulp

"A Tree-Based World Model for Reducing Robot System Complexity in Flexible, Autonomous Logistic Tasks"

4. Tasuku Makabe, Tomoya Himeno, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

"Proposal and Demonstration of Multi-type Electromechanical Couplings with Trade-offs Between Assembly/Separation Difficulty and Cost and Rigidity"

  16:00 - 16:20 Ulrike Thomas
"The Transformation from Planning to Learning in Robotic Assembly"

  16:20 - 16:50 Panel Discussion: Industry x Academia

• Reconfigurability vs. Performance 

• Demands in Industry for Reconfigurable Systems

  16:50 - 17:00 Closing Remarks by Organizers

 Call for Poster / Robot Demonstration

We invite SII2025 attendees to submit posters with or without demonstration videos related to the following topics:

• System Designs and Concepts

  1. • • System Reconfiguration

       • Robot Reconfiguration

       • Self-Reconfiguration

• Planning Methods

  1. • • Long-Horizon Manipulation Planning

       • Task and Motion Planning 

       • Sequence Planning

• Applications

  1. • • Flexible Assembly / Disassembly

       • Mobile Manipulation

       • Logistics

Late-breaking results, materials under review, and elaborations on previously accepted works are all welcome.

Format

• Language: English 

• Poster size: No larger than A0 paper size (841mm wide × 1189mm high)

• Poster file format: PDF (Please limit the size of the PDF file to 10 MB). 

• Video file format (optional): mp4 (Please limit the size of the mp4 to 10MB).

• Poster format (if accepted): Content printed by the author on A0 paper/cloth for presentation in the Poster Session 

• There is no specific template for the posters. You'll need to choose the format that best represents your research work.

• For additional information, don't hesitate to contact the corresponding organizer: Takuya Kiyokawa (kiyokawa@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp).

• Authors of accepted posters will be asked to present a poster in person at the workshop; live robot demos are greatly encouraged!

• Accepted posters will be made publicly available on the workshop website.

Timeline

• November 1, 2024: Call for posters/robot demonstrations open

• November 12, 25, 2024: Early submission deadline to ensure decision by SII early registration deadline (November 14, 29)

• December 9, 2024, January 13, 2025: Regular submission deadline

* You'll get the acceptance notification within a few days.

Technical Committee Support 

We are grateful for the support of the IEEE/SICE SII2025 committees.